Goodbye, Flushing High School. Hello, Rupert B. Thomas Academy at the Flushing Campus.
The city is steamrolling forward with plans to close then reopen 24 struggling schools, shedding their old familiar names and selecting new ones.
Some names that have been city fixtures for decades would disappear, like Bread Roses Integrated Arts High School, which will become People’s School of the Arts.
And one of the city’s most colorful school names — Banana Kelly High School, named after the banana-shaped block in the South Bronx — would be renamed Collegiate Preparatory Academy at Longwood.
The new names, given a final thumb’s up by Chancellor Dennis Walcott Wednesday, were selected in a variety of ways, officials said.
At Graphics High School in Manhattan, the principal put out a comment box for students to submit names — it will become Creative Digital Minds High School, according to education officials.
Herbert H. Lehman High School’s new name — Throggs Neck High School at the Lehman campus — was proposed by the Student Council, officials said. But one teacher at the school says that’s not even the right neighborhood.
“From what I know of Bronx geography this isn’t Throgs Neck,” said English teacher Mindi LoCicero. “Throgs Neck is farther east. I know why they picked that name. It sounds richer. The country club is in Throggs Neck.”
While the new names have been finalized, the closures — and the firing of half the schools’ staffs — are being challenged in court by the teachers and principals unions.
Below is a list of the old and new school names
Manhattan
Graphics High School will become Creative Digital Minds High School
Bread Roses Integrated Arts HS will become People’s School of the Arts
Bronx
Alfred E. Smith CTE HS will become Bronx Institute for Automotive Technology
Herbert H Lehman High School will become Throggs Neck High School at the Lehman Campus
Banana Kelly High School will become Collegiate Preparatory Academy at Longwood
JHS 22 Jordan L Mott will become The College Avenue Academy
IS 339 will become Bronx Middle School of Academic and Career Technology
Bronx High School of Business will become Business Enterprise High School
JHS 80 Mosholu Parkway will become Norwood Academy of Communal Excellence at the Isobel Rooney Campus
MS 391 will become Innovative School of Excellence at the Angelo Patri Campus
Fordham Leadership Academy will become East Fordham College Career Preparatory High School
MS 142 John Philip Sousa will become North Bronx Academy
Brooklyn
John Ericsson Middle School 126 will become The Greenpoint Community Middle School at the John Ericcson Campus
Automotive High School will become Greenpoint High School for Engineering and Automotive Technology
JHS 166 George Gershwin will become School of Integrated Academics and Performing Arts at the George Gershwin Campus
John Dewey High School will become Shorefront High School of Arts and Sciences at John Dewey Campus
Sheepshead Bay High School will become Academy of Career Exploration of Sheepshead Bay
Queens
Newtown High School will become College and Career Academies High School at Newtown Campus
Flushing High School will become Rupert B. Thomas Academy at the Flushing Campus
August Martin High School will become School of Opportunities at the August Martin Campus
Richmond Hill High School will become 21st Century School of Richmond Hill
John Adams High School will become Future Leaders High School at the John Adams Campus
William Cullen Bryant High School will become Academy of Humanities and Applied Science at the William Cullen Bryant Campus
Long Island City High School will become Global Scholars Academies of Long Island City
