Benjamin N. Cardozo High School is a

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in the Bayside neighborhood of

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. The school was named for

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, who served as

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of the

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and chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals. It is operated by the

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. Cardozo High School is known for its ''Mentor Law and Humanities'' program, offering classes in such subjects like

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as well as a legal internship course. The school's ''

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Science and Research Institute'' program provides students an emphasis on

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and mathematics. The ''Performing Dance'' program, for which students are selected through an audition process, provides instruction in many different forms of dance. The school also has a wide variety of extracurricular clubs, Navy jrotc, activities, and athletic and academic teams.

Academics

Cardozo High School offers a wide variety of Honors and Advanced Placement Courses, including, but not limited to,

AP English Language and Composition Advanced Placement (AP) English Language and Composition (also known as AP English Language, APENG, or AP Lang) is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program. When AP exams were first impleme ...

AP English Literature and Composition Advanced Placement (AP) English Literature and Composition (also known as Senior AP English, AP Lit, APENG, or AP English IV) is a course and examination offered by the College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program in the United Stat ...

, AP Spanish Language and Culture,

AP Biology Advanced Placement (AP) Biology (also known as AP Bio) is an Advanced Placement biology course and exam offered by the College Board in the United States. For the 2012–2013 school year, the College Board unveiled a new curriculum with a greate ...

AP Chemistry Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry (also known as AP Chem) is a course and examination offered by the College Board as a part of the Advanced Placement Program to give American and Canadian high school students the opportunity to demonstrate thei ...

, AP Physics 1,

AP Psychology Advanced Placement (AP) Psychology (also known as AP Psych) and its corresponding exam are part of College Board's Advanced Placement Program. This course is tailored for students interested in the field of psychology and as an opportunity to ...

AP Environmental Science Advanced Placement (AP) Environmental Science (also known as APES, AP Enviro, AP Environmental, AP Environment, or AP EnviroSci) is a course and exam offered by the American College Board as part of the Advanced Placement Program to high school ...

AP Statistics Advanced Placement (AP) Statistics (also known as AP Stats) is a college-level high school statistics course offered in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placement program. This course is equivalent to a one semester, non-ca ...

, AP Computer Science A,

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, AP Calculus AB,

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, AP U.S. History,

AP World History Advanced Placement (AP) World History: Modern (also known as just AP World History, AP World, or WHAP) is a college-level course and examination offered to high school students in the United States through the College Board's Advanced Placemen ...

AP European History Advanced Placement (AP) European History (also known as AP Euro, or APEH), is a course and examination offered by the College Board through the Advanced Placement Program. This course is for high school students who are interested in a first year ...

, AP U.S. Government and Politics,

AP Comparative Government and Politics Advanced Placement (AP) Comparative Government and Politics (also known as AP CoGo or AP CompGov) is an Advanced Placement comparative politics Comparative politics is a field in political science characterized either by the use of the ''compa ...

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, and AP Microeconomics. In addition, Cardozo High School also offers dual-enrollment courses with St. John's University in United States History, United States Government, Introductory Journalism, College Writing, and American Literature through thei
College Advantage Program
Cardozo High School also offers college-credit bearing classes via its College Now partnerships with

Queensborough Community College Queensborough Community College (QCC) is a community college in Bayside, Queens, New York. One of seven community colleges within the City University of New York (CUNY) system, Queensborough enrolls more than 12,000 students and more than 7 ...

and Queens College.

Extracurricular activities

Robotics

Benjamin N. Cardozo High School has an extracurricular

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program, led by coach and lead mentor Bernard Haggerty. Founded in 2014, ''The Sentinels'' have participated in various robotics programs and won numerous awards. The program is entirely student-funded through its students' own fundraising efforts and a marketing division, responsible for organizing larger fundraising events and attracting sponsors from businesses and colleges. The program consists of five core engineering divisions and three marketing and media divisions. Students are taught hands-on

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, and pneumatic engineering as well as

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

and computer aided design. The

marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

and media divisions are responsible for organizing team events and fundraisers, budgeting, sponsor outreach, managing a team blog and newsletter, and creating teaser, reveal, and recruitment videos for the season. A Mentorship program was created in 2017, allowing many alumni to return as volunteers or mentors. The program provides access to a number of scholarships, volunteer opportunities, and internship connections through

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, the

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, and the school's PTA.

FIRST® Robotics Program

The school has a ''FIRST''® Robotics Team founded in 2014, (FRC Team #5599, ''The Sentinels''). In 2014, the team was awarded the ''Future Glory Award'' at the ''Brunswick Eruption'' 2014 off-season competition. In 2015, the team took home the ''Rookie Inspiration Award'' from the ''New York City 2015 Regional Competition''. In 2017, the team was the leading alliance in finals at the ''Hudson Valley Rally'' off-season competition in Yonkers, New York. In 2018, the team played in the quarter-finals in the ''New York City 2018 Regional Competition'' on an alliance with specialized school Brooklyn Technical High School and Long Island City High School. At the time Vice-Captain and Director of Marketing, Danielle Louie, was a ''Dean's List''s ''Award'' semi-finalist. At the ''2019 SBPLI Long Island Regional Competition (#2)'', Nazifa Prapti was a ''Dean's List'' ''Award'' semi-finalist, and was also awarded the ''MVP Achievement'' in recognition of their "Individual excellence, contribution, and achievement" during the competition season. At the ''New York City 2019 Regional'', Nazifa was a
Dean's List Award
' finalist, one of the highest acclaimed awards in the entire FIRST Robotics program. The team placed in the semi-finals during the ''2019 Half Hallow Hills Robotics Invitational'' off-season event.

SeaPerch Program

The school's robotics team once included an underwater robotics division that participated in the

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's SeaPerch program, a program created by the

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and sponsored by Office of Naval Research. The SeaPerch team placed third in the 2017 season, their first time competing in the program. The SeaPerch program was disbanded in 2018.

Science Olympiad

The school's

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team consistently ranks in the top five at the New York City Regional Competition. The team won second place in 2008, third place in 2009, and fourth place in 2010. On February 5, 2011, the school's Science Olympiad team ranked first for the first time since 1999 at the New York City Regional Science Olympiad Competition, ranking above several private and specialized high schools renowned for their academic rigor. In 2012, the team ranked second at the regional competition.

Debate

The

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team won the NYC championship in 2008.

Future Business Leaders of America

Cardozo's chapter of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) consistently places among the top students/schools on the city-level and on the state level of the competitions in various competitive events such as Marketing, Economics, Personal Finance, Business Math, Cyber Security, Parliamentary Procedures, Networking Concepts, Business Procedures, Hospitality Management, Accounting I, Sports Management, and more. Students place in the top of their competitive events. In 2011, Cardozo FBLA went on to the national level of the competitions in Orlando, Florida.

Athletics

Cardozo also has a large number of acclaimed sports teams, some of which are: *Boys: Track,

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, Football,

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, Cross country,

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Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...

, Handball,

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, Soccer,

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, and

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

. *Girls: Track,

, Cross country,

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, Handball,

, Soccer,

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, Stunt (sport),

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, and

. *Co-ed:

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and

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Enrollment

As of the 2018–2019 school year, enrollment was 3,617 students, and there were 176.89 classroom teachers (based on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 20.45:1. There were 1,938 students (54% of enrollment) eligible for

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and 310 (9% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Benjamin N Cardozo High School
. '' National Center for Education Statistics''. Retrieved July 7, 2020.

History

Benjamin N. Cardozo High School opened in 1967.Buder, Leonard (August 21, 1967). "11 New Schools Will Open in City: 8 More Will Be Added to System Later in Fall Term". ''The New York Times''. p. 35. The building was designed by the firm of Eggers & Higgins. It was built for $7.571 million, and it was designed for a capacity of 3,213 students. In 1968, the Queens Chamber of Commerce gave Cardozo High School an award for excellence in design and civic value. In March 1970, the Black Students Union gave Principal Benjamin Michaelson a list of ten requests."Principal Held in Room; 35 Students Arrested: Disorder in Queens Flares When Activists Are Told to Meet After Classes". ''The New York Times''. April 9, 1970. p. 24. The students wanted Black History and Art to be added to the curriculum, they wanted several racist teachers to be fired, and they wanted to have more input on which classes they took.Jones, Lesly (April 11, 1970). "Principal Won't Talk; Cardoza High In Limbo". ''New York Amsterdam News''. p. 23. They also wanted more teachers who were black, as there was only one at that time. The following month, the students had a

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. A week later, twelve members of the Black Students Union met with Michaelson about the list. When Michaelson tried to postpone the discussion to another time, the students would not allow Michaelson to leave the office and prevented others to enter the room. The principal's assistant called the police, and four students were arrested. In March 1992, then-presidential candidate

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met with Cardozo students and answered their questions. Clinton returned in January 1998 and helped paint classrooms in Cardozo, along with many volunteers from Americorps.

Notable alumni

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(born 1976), former NBA player. *

Dawoud Bey Dawoud Bey (born David Edward Smikle; November 25, 1953) is an American photographer and educator known for his large-scale art photography and street photography portraits, including American adolescents in relation to their community, and oth ...

(David Smikle) (born 1953), photographer, writer and curator. * Duane Causwell (born 1968), NBA player. * Edward DuPass (born 1969), Blogger Movie Reviewer. * Darryl Hill (born 1982), professional basketball player. *

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(born 1981), NBA player with the Philadelphia 76ers. *

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(Ronald Hyatt) (born 1953), adult film actor. *

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(Catherine Guzman) (born 1990), professional wrestler. *

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(born 1990), track and field athlete who won the gold medal in 400 meters hurdles during the 2016 Summer Olympics. * Keturah Miller (born 1987), renowned author, entrepreneur, self-care empowerment coach, and Founder of DolceFleur.Shop. *

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(born 1975), MLB pitcher who played for the

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and Houston Astros. * Jay Pak (Pak Dae-sik) (born 1985), Korean-American rapper and singer. Known by his stage-name, "Flowsik". Contestant on '' Show Me the Money'' Season 5. *

Anthony Raneri Anthony Raneri (born August 9, 1982) is an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, who is the founder and lead vocalist of the American alternative rock band, Bayside. Early life Raneri grew up in Glen Oaks Village, Queens, New York for wh ...

(born 1982), lead singer of Bayside. *

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(born 1954),

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Broadcaster. *

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, entrepreneur,

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researcher, feminist. * George Tenet (born 1953), former director of the

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. *

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(born 1952), actor, known for his role as Carl Winslow in ''

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''.Hart, John
"The Hedgehog Shoots For Legit"
, ''

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'', Accessed December 6, 2007. "Long before Hollywood called, Jeremy was just another Bayside kid who enjoyed afternoons playing on his favorite tree outside his home on Bell Boulevard. He attended Benjamin Cardozo High School, where he appeared in theatrical productions like Oklahoma. One of his fellow cast members was Reginald Vel Johnson, who went on to fame in the ''Die Hard'' movie series and TV's ''Family Matters''." *

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(born 1992), professional wrestler, also known as "Karen Q" and "Wendy Choo".

Notable faculty

* Matthew "Matt Striker" Kaye (born 1974), former social studies teacher who was fired from his job at Benjamin Cardozo after using sick time to work as a professional wrestler.Saulny, Susan
"Truant Teacher Who Lost Job Finds His Revenge in the Ring"
''

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'', August 12, 2005. Accessed May 22, 2017. "Mr. Kaye, a former social studies teacher at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens, lost his job after he was caught taking sick time to go on a pro wrestling tour. Now, he says, he has signed a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment, which produces televised wrestling shows."

References

External links

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Benjamin N. Cardozo High School Class of 1978 website
{{authority control Public high schools in Queens, New York Educational institutions established in 1966 Bayside, Queens 1966 establishments in New York City