Mayor Eric Adams and Schools Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos celebrated the return of nearly one million public school students and staff on Thursday morning by taking part in a ribbon-cutting at the new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Early College Prep High School in Jamaica, the first-of-its-kind for New York City Public Schools.
The new school, located at 88-15 182nd St., brings an innovative, tuition-free, early college high school experience to students, where they can earn up to 64 college credits for an associate degree in Liberal Arts from Delaware State University, an HBCU.
