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What's in a name?
Fenway High School will now be located in Mission Hill.
New Mission High School will now be located in Hyde Park.
Who said that the BRA was behind all the blurry neighborhood lines?
Boston State College
It is a little remembered fact, but the Ipswitch Street building that currently houses Boston Arts Academy/Fenway High School once
housed the now defunct Boston State College, which I attended in the 1970s. Some people may remember Boston State's main campus on Huntington Avenue which is now the Mass College of Art and Design, but few will remember that it was also on Ipswitch Street. It was a hell of a challenge getting from the Ipswitch bulding to the Huntington buildings in the seven or eight minutes we had between classes. They ran a shuttle bus, but it got stuck in traffic and no one used it. We just ran across the little bridge over the Muddy River and hoped we made it on time.
Boston State College
U Mass - Boston has a conference room dedicated to Boston State College.
That's right. I graduated
That's right. I graduated BSC in 1975; the Ipswitch building housed the English and humanties department. I took freshman Intro to Western Civilization and my English classes in that building.
Ipswich Street schools
It also housed Latin Academy in the 80's when BLA moved out of Codman Square.
They couldn't get the busses onto Ipswich during home Red Sox games.Until they figured out putting the busses onto Boylston St we'd get half day for all the home games.
That was back when a friendly cop or ticket-taker would wave young kids thru the gates.
Saw a lot of games that way.
Good times.
Is Hyde Park the new educational capitol of Boston?
The Renaissance Charter moved to HP
Per the post above the Mission School moved to HP
Dr. Johnson wanted to put BLA in HP
There is a push to put a new HS in Mattapan - close to HP
Maybe Harvard should be looking at HP instead of A/B for their institutional exansion?
Whatever could be driving some of our better educational opportunities to HP?
Not just Renaissance
There are at least two other charter schools in Hyde Park - the Academy of the Pacific Rim and one whose name I'm blanking on but is right down Hyde Park Avenue from Renaissance.
Why? I'm betting cheap land/building costs. Renaissance bought a dilapidated, shuttered old factory building and with all the money it made selling off its Park Square building, was able to do quite the nice renovation. Tthe School Whose Name I Can't Remember are in old parochial-school buildings. Pacific Rim is in a renovated old factory complex, where normally you'd think rents would be pretty high, but, um, this is Hyde Park.
It's all more than enough to make up for the fact that Hyde Park is at the very bottom of Boston.
Why does Mission Hill want to move to Hyde Park?
It sounds like they are just searching for schools powerless enough to get moved to HPH, where their program will languish and die because it's so far out and the HPH building has nothing special to offer.
JP?
Actually reading the article on the Globe site tonight it looks like the Mission Hill school is going to use the former site of the Agassiz in JP - not HP.
Almost
Musical chairs, anyone?
New Mission High School (not Mission Hill, mea culpa) moves to Hyde Park High along with Boston Community Leadership Academy.
Fenway High moves into the vacated New Mission High.
A brand new high school would be started at the Agassiz, where it would share space with the relocated Mission Hill K-8 school.
Can you say...
rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic? Uggh - thanks for the clarification - I think - let you know when my head stops spinning :-)
Above corrected
I originally included Trinity Academy in the list of Hyde Park charter schools. As an alert reader informed me, Trinity is very much not eligible for public charter-school funds.
Boston Preparatory Charter School; Most Precious Blood school
Adam: the school you are referring to is Boston Preparatory Charter School, which used to be Most Precious blood parochial school.
When I went to MPB from 1st grade to 6th grade, the tuition back then was $150 per year (from 1978-1984). Each additional brother was $125 a year, so it cost about $400 a year.