University Heights High School

About University Heights High School

University Heights High School is a New York City Department of Education (DOE) school and a member of the newly established New York City Empowerment Zone. The high school has been a member of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), and it is a founding member of the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). We are a part of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which was founded in 1997. University Heights is a coeducational, college preparatory school enrolling approximately 600 students in grades 9 to 12. While the student body is multicultural, the majority of the population is of Hispanic or African-American ethnicity. Students from throughout the five boroughs of New York City attend University Heights High School, however, most reside in the Bronx. Our mission statement is simple. Our students will meet or exceed high learning standards at the secondary school level. Our community of learners includes students, staff, parents, and university/community partners. Our focus encompasses the “whole person” as learner, and there is an insistence that we use our minds in order to develop intellectually, socially, physically, and ethically. We continually seek to refine and expand necessary academic/social skills, bodies of knowledge, values and habits of mind that we believe are essential to our becoming and being productive and well-educated individuals. Our goals are two fold: to prepare students who demonstrate mastery of habits of learning for graduation to maximize the success of all members of our community We emphasize respect for oneself and for others, while understanding and appreciating that respect is a byproduct of achievement.

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