Murry Bergtraum High School

Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers
Address
Map
411 Pearl Street

New York City
,
New York

United States
Coordinates40°42′40″N 74°00′05″W / 40.71111°N 74.00139°W / 40.71111; -74.00139
Information
TypePublic High School
Established1975
School boardNew York City Public Schools
School district2 (Geographic and Administrative)
School numberM520
PrincipalMs. Joyell Simmons [1][2]
Faculty61.0 FTEs[3]
Grades9–12
Enrollment999 (as of 2014-15)[3]
Student to teacher ratio16.4:1[3]
Color(s)   Red & Gold
AthleticsPSAL
MascotFlash[4]
NicknameBergtraum; MBHS; Murry B
YearbookThe Montague
Websitehttp://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]

  1. ^ PSAT Letter
  2. ^ Welcome - Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers - M520 - New York City Department of Education. Schools.nyc.gov (2012-01-11). Retrieved on 2013-10-05.
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference NCES was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Bergtraum's PSAL Profile
  5. ^ Inside School's Profile of Murry Bergtraum Archived 2005-12-29 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Financial Women's Association Committees - Mentoring Archived 2009-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. Fwa.org. Retrieved on 2013-10-05.