Coordinates: 40°48′55″N 73°56′39″W / 40.8153°N 73.9443°W / 40.8153; -73.9443

Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change

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Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change
View of the school in 2022
Location
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200-214 West 135th Street
New York, NY 10030

United States
Coordinates40°48′55″N 73°56′39″W / 40.8153°N 73.9443°W / 40.8153; -73.9443
Information
Established1993 (1993)
Grades6 - 12
Websitewww.tmanyc.org

Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change is a public middle and high school in New York City serving grades 6 to 12.[1] It is named for United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

The school is at 200-214 W 135th Street in Harlem. The school opened in 1993 with Harriet Pitts as principal.[2]

The school's student body is 70 percent African American and 26 percent Hispanic. About 70 percent are from economically disadvantaged families.[1]

After moving four times in its first 11 years, it moved into a new $38 million 6-story 90,000 square foot school building in 2004. Thurgood Marshall's wife Cecilia Marshall was among the dignitaries to attend opening ceremonies for the new school building.[3]

Calvin Butts III and the Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC) were involved in founding the school.[3][4][5]

Retailer Burlington helped fund a 2017 renovation of the school's library.[6] In 2017, a teacher at the school was charged with assault after allegedly grabbing a 17-year-old female student by the neck.[7]

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References

  1. ^ a b "Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Ch in New York, NY". US News Best High Schools. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 3 August 2023.
  2. ^ McNeil, Genna Rae; Roberson, Houston Bryan; Dixie, Quinton Hosford; McGruder, Kevin (December 22, 2013). Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9780802863416 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Company, Johnson Publishing (February 23, 2004). "Jet". Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Contract". Miller Freeman. November 22, 2005 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ López, Gerald P. (November 22, 2005). The Center for Community Problem Solving Reentry Guide: A Handbook for People Coming Out of Jails and Prisons and for Their Families and Communities. Center for Community Problem Solving Press. ISBN 9780976767701 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Clark, Dartunorro (March 3, 2017). "Harlem School Library Gets $80K Upgrade". DNAinfo New York.
  7. ^ Parascandola, Rocco; Chapman, Ben; Annese, John (26 May 2017). "Harlem high school teacher charged with assault after allegedly grabbing 17-year-old girl by neck". nydailynews.com.