College of Staten Island High School for International Studies
Public school in Staten Island, New York, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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College of Staten Island High School For International Studies (CSIHSIS) is a New York City public high school that incorporates an internationally themed curriculum as well as preparing students for the 21st Century. CSIHSIS originally opened as a Region 7 public high school in 2005 on the College of Staten Island campus and moved to a new building in September 2008 located in New Springville, Staten Island. It was founded through a partnership with The College of Staten Island and Asia Society, with financial support by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($100,000 a year for the first four years[3]).
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100 Essex Drive Staten Island , New York United States | |
Coordinates | 40°34′53″N 74°09′29″W |
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Type | Public |
Established | 2005 |
School board | New York City Public Schools |
School number | 047 |
CEEB code | 335346 |
Principal | Joseph Canale Assistant Principal = Lauren Torres |
Faculty | 31[1] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Number of students | 520[2] |
Color(s) | Black and teal |
Mascot | Dragon |
Nickname | Dragons |
Website | www.csihighschool.org |
The school is currently operating at full capacity[4] and recently graduated its first class of 93 seniors. Students were accepted to colleges throughout the country including University of Chicago, Duke University, Georgetown University, Northeastern University, Iona College, SUNY Stonybrook, Brown University, SUNY Oneonta, McGill University, CUNY Hunter, CUNY Baruch, McCauley Honors College at College of Staten Island, Rutgers University, New York University, Brooklyn College, SUNY Geneseo, Life University School of Chiropractic, Howard, Penn State, and Indiana University.[5]
The school is meant to be a small school under the "small-schools model" the Bloomberg administration has implemented elsewhere in New York City,[6] and it had about 200 students in the 2006–2007 academic year.[7]