Erasmus Hall High School

Erasmus Hall Campus High School was a four-year public high school in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, United States operated by the New York City Department of Education. Owing to poor academic scores, the city closed the school and created four separate schools on the same campus. Erasmus Hall High School, originally called Erasmus Hall Academy, a private institution of higher learning founded in 1786 by Dutch settlers in Vlacke bos ("flat woodland"), Anglicized to Flatbush, was the first secondary school chartered by the New York State Regents. The clapboard-sided, Federal style building, constructed in 1787 on land donated by the Flatbush Dutch Reformed Church still located at 890 Flatbush Avenue (designated a New York City...