Leadership & Public Service High School
| Leadership & Public Service High School | |
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| Address | |
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90 Trinity Place New York City, New York USA |
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| Coordinates | 40°42′33″N 74°00′44″W / 40.709271°N 74.012094°WCoordinates: 40°42′33″N 74°00′44″W / 40.709271°N 74.012094°W |
| Information | |
| Type | Public (secondary school) secondary |
| Motto | Leadership Means Setting an Example Worth Following |
| Established | 1993 |
| Principal | Philip Santos (2011-present) |
| Faculty | 43 |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Number of students | 646 |
| Color(s) | Blue and Orange |
| Mascot | Panther |
| Newspaper | Soul Of The Panther |
| Website | leadershipnyc |
Leadership & Public Service High School (formerly known as The High School for Leadership and Public Service) was formed in 1993 in Manhattan as a joint project between Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and the Board of Education of the City of New York, as one of 30 newly formed "small high schools". Among the school's notable founders includes that of Syracuse University Professor Dr. Bill Coplin and S.U. Alumni Jane Present, chair of the Friends of HSLAPS. Due to the school's close proximity to the World Trade Center (three blocks south) and Wall Street, it was one of the four high schools in Lower Manhattan area to be displaced by the September 11 attacks.
The building in which Leadership is currently located at, was a post-modern building, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in 1975. The building itself was the home of the New York University Stern School of Business from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. In order to make way for the newly formed High School for Leadership and Public Service, the Board of Education of the City of New York, leased the building, 90 Trinity Place, from NYU. Until the renovations on the building were complete, Leadership was forced to share 3 floors next door with its neighbors, the High School of Economics and Finance (100 Trinity Place), during the 1993-94 school year.
Helen Cohen, the first principal (1993–1995), had a goal to prepared the students for college, and with the help of staff, most of the students in the first graduating classes got into college. Ada Rosario-Dolch, the second principal of the school (1995–2004), tried hard to make sure that the students passed the New York State Regents exams. Dolch worked hard to make the school effective, hiring more staff in the process.
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