Morris High School (Bronx)

Morris High School, in New York City, was a high school in the Melrose section of the Bronx borough's South Bronx area.[1] The direct predecessor of Morris was built in 1897 and established as the Mixed High School, situated in a small brick building on 157th Street and 3rd Avenue, about six blocks south of where the new building would be built.[2] It was the first high school built in the Bronx.[1] Originally named Peter Cooper High School, the name was changed to Morris High School to commemorate a famous Bronx landowner, Gouverneur Morris,[1][3] one of the signers of the United States Constitution and credited as author of its Preamble. Morris High School was one of the original New York City Public High Schools created by the New York City school reform act of 1896.[4] On December 22, 1899, the Mixed High School was a founding member of the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB), now known as the College Board. In 1983, the school and surrounding area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Morris High School Historic District.[5]

Morris High School
Address
1110 Boston Road

(at East 166th Street)

Melrose / Morrisania

The Bronx
,
NY
10456

United States
Coordinates40°49′38″N 73°54′15″W
Information
Former namePeter Cooper High School
School typePublic high school
OpenedJune 10, 1904 (1904-06-10)
Statusclosed
Closed2002 (2002)
School boardNew York City Panel for Educational Policy
School districtNew York City Department of Education
Grades9–12

In 2002, as part of an overall restructuring and downsizing of New York City's high schools, Morris High School was closed. The building was renamed the Morris Campus. It now houses four small specialty high schools: High School for Violin and Dance, Bronx International High School, the School for Excellence, and the Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies.[6][7]

Notable alumni

References
  1. "Morris Campus History". Morris Campus. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
  2. "Morris High School". NNDB. Retrieved 2009-01-06.
  3. Hewitt, Abram S (1965) [First published 1937 by Columbia University Press]. "A Sheaf of Letters : To a committee in the Bronx, July 15, 1901" (PDF). In Nevins, Allan (ed.). Selected writings, with Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. pp. 381–382. OCLC 264897. I write this letter therefore for the purpose of enabling you to say to the Board of Education that the family of Mr. Cooper will not feel in the slightest degree disturbed by the change of name to "The Morris High School," but on the contrary they desire me to express their entire sympathy with the people of the Borough of the Bronx in their wish to preserve for all time to come, and especially in the minds of the youth of the region, the memories which cluster round the name of Morris, and particularly attach to Gouverneur Morris.
  4. Gary Hermalyn, Morris High School and the Creation of the New York City Public High School System, Bronx Historical Society, 1995.
  5. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  6. "The Decline and Uplifting Fall of Morris High". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  7. "Morris Educational Campus". Retrieved 24 November 2015.
  8. Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Victor Riesel, 81, Columnist Blinded by Acid Attack, Dies." The New York Times. January 5, 1995.


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