Beach Channel High News

See How Much Your High School Spends on Boys' and Girls' Sports

DNAinfoOf that, approximately $2 million more was spent on boys' athletics programs than on girls' during the 2014-2015 school year, according to data released to DNAinfo New York under a Freedom of Information Law request. That year, nearly $14.5 million was ...

VIDEO: Youth Rowing Program Teaches Girls Strength in Sports and Life

DNAinfoThe city's only public high school team was at Beach Channel High School in Rockaway Park for nearly 40 years before the team folded as the campus was restructured. So the Row New York squad competes against teams at regattas on Long Island and in ...

Rockaway Midshipman Killed in Amtrak Crash

DNAinfoZemser played for the Naval Academy's football team and had just finished his second year as a midshipman. He was also valedictorian of his high school class at Channel View School for Research in Rockaway Park, which he graduated from in 2013, his ...

Beach Channel wins first ever baseball title

Queens ChronicleMembers of the Beach Channel High School baseball team hold up their championship banner after defeating Bronx Science at Yankee Stadium to win their first Public School Athletic League B Division city baseball crown last Thursday.

Feds to send $4.9M to repair Beach Channel High School

TimesLedgerChuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, along with state Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway) announced that $4,902,607.21, granted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will go to the New York City School Construction ...

Just in Time for Summer, the A Train Is Fully Restored

New York TimesAbout two hours later, a group of high school students boarded the Rockaway shuttle at Broad Channel. One student noticed a whirl of gurgling waters through the window, as the train approached Beach 90th Street station. “What is that brown stuff?” he ...

Rockaway, Howard Beach schools move to LIC in Sandy's wake

Queens ChronicleIn the wake of Hurricane Sandy, a number of schools in the Rockaways and Howard Beach have relocated due to destruction at school buildings and power outages. One Rockaway public school ... PS 47 in Broad Channel is temporarily relocated to PS 181 in ...

Panel for Educational Policy will decide on possible closures of four Queens schools

New York Daily NewsIt will decide the fates of Jamaica High School and Beach Channel High School, in Rockaway Park, on Thursday. ... Robert Tobias, the city's former testing chief turned New York University professor, said phasing out schools may be hasty. "In some cases ...

A Beach Shared by a Tight-Knit Clan

New York TimesBeach Channel High School, in Rockaway Park, enrolls 1,409 students in Grades 9 through 12. The school has ... The street grid was laid out by the Neponsit Realty Company in 1910, according to the Encyclopedia of New York City. Hotels, stores and ...

Answers About Rockaway, Queens, Part 3

Summer housing could be found from Rockaway Park to Far Rockaway. Rockaway ... A second high school, Beach Channel High School, farther west down the peninsula, attracted the best students from Rockaway and even from other sections of New York.