The famed Lafayette High School in Brooklyn, which has produced such celebrity alumni as Larry King and Sandy Koufax, will open its doors on Sept. 4 to three smaller, specialized schools that will dwell under the same roof.
After Lafayette and several other schools in the city were deemed “failing” in late 2006, the mayor closed off those larger institutions and replaced them with a melange of smaller, more finely tuned schools in an effort to improve the city’s graduation rate.
The Lafayette High School Education Complex will be another of the city’s testing grounds for this initiative, called the “campus movement.”
However, statistics argue the “small schools movement” has made positive headway. Over the course of four years, the graduation rate has doubled from 35 percent in 2002, when schools were still in the larger format, to 70 percent last school year, after schools had been broken into smaller entities, according to DOE Chancellor Joel Klein.
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