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Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers | |
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411 Pearl Street New York City , United States | |
Coordinates | 40°42′40″N 74°00′05″W / 40.71111°N 74.00139°W |
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Type | Public High School |
Established | 1975 |
School board | New York City Public Schools |
School district | 2 (Geographic and Administrative) |
School number | M520 |
Principal | Ms. Joyell Simmons [1][2] |
Faculty | 61.0 FTEs[3] |
Grades | 9–12 |
Enrollment | 999 (as of 2014-15)[3] |
Student to teacher ratio | 16.4:1[3] |
Color(s) | Red & Gold |
Athletics | PSAL |
Mascot | Flash[4] |
Nickname | Bergtraum; MBHS; Murry B |
Yearbook | The Montague |
Website | http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M520/default.htm |
The Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers is a public secondary school in New York City. It is located in Lower Manhattan, adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall. Bergtraum offers business-oriented courses to prepare students for careers in marketing, tourism, finance, human resources, information systems, economics, computer science, law, and secretarial fields. The school also combines its business curriculum with an academic program that gears towards preparation for college. In recent years, the school has been integrating more humanities and liberal arts courses to enrich the school's curriculum.[5]
Murry Bergtraum High School was one of the first business-themed high schools in New York City, and inclusively, the United States. It has two sister schools that share its business theme: Norman Thomas High School (previously known as Central Commercial High School) and the High School of Economics and Finance. Out of the three schools, Murry Bergtraum is the largest of all the business high schools in this category and in the city due to its large, diverse business programs and course offerings.[citation needed]
It remains as one of the few large high schools in New York City as a result of Michael Bloomberg's small-school restructuring projects.[6] It was also exempted from chancellor Joel Klein's citywide uniform curriculum initiated in 2003.[citation needed]
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