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- Julia Richman's graduation rate fell, vandalism and violence rose, and student pride in the school dropped. To reverse this downward spiral, the New York City Board of Education chose Julia Richman as one of the first high schools to be reorganized into smaller units.
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Prior to its closing, Julia Richman High School had developed a reputation for academic failure with a graduation rate of 35%. Within a decade the new smaller schools claimed a low staff turnover and an average high school graduation rate in excess of 85%, more than 5% greater than the city-wide graduation rate.
In 1995, Julia Richman High School graduated its last class, creating space for smaller schools to occupy the newly renamed Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC -- pronounced "jay-rec"). Under a memorandum of understanding with the City, Urban Academy became the lead school in the new complex.
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Sep 19, 2016 · After a lawsuit challenged single-sex education in New York, Julia Richman started accepting male students in 1968. The school began to decline, and by the early 1990s, only 37 percent of its students graduated in four years and fewer than three-quarters attended school every day.
In an astonishing act of betrayal and arrogance, Hunter College and the Department of Education have developed plans to demolish the 80 year old restored Julia Richman Education Complex and to replace it with a high rise building housing science labs.
Julia Richman's graduation rate fell, vandalism and violence rose, and student pride in the school dropped. To reverse this downward spiral, the New York City Board of Education chose Julia Richman as one of the first high schools to be reorganized into smaller units.
Jan 21, 2004 · Jan. 21, 2004. In the mid-1990's, Julia Richman High was a big bad Manhattan public school, overcrowded and plagued by violence until a group of innovative educators took over, divided the...
Feb 8, 2005 · Built in 1923, Julia Richman (named after the city's first woman district superintendent of schools) was a thriving all-girls high school for fifty years. It began to flounder in the mid-'70s, battered by budget cuts, overcrowding, low student achievement, and crime.
