Announcements
As tribute to their alma matter’s final year, alumni from Sheepshead Bay’s Gospel Choir are planning a benefit concert to help pay for some the senior expenses for the last graduating class. “Learning that the school was closing, I was shell shocked,” said alumni Chaya Kennedy-Burnett, one of
Police & Fire
(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a missing teenage girl who was last seen Tuesday morning at Sheepshead Bay High School. Authorities say 15-year-old Melissa Beaubrun, who lives at the Sheepshead Bay Houses, has been missing for more than two days. She was last spotted at 7am
Neighbors
Lauren Profeta. (Photo: Answer the Call)Sheepshead Bay native Lauren Profeta understands the daily perils faced by New York City’s first responders. Two of her three brothers are firefighters. The other is a police captain. Profeta was promoted this week to Director of Development for Answer the Call – The
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The photo of Ramirez and the former student, which has made rounds in the school. (via Daily News)A teacher at Origins High School, one of the new schools located at the former Sheepshead Bay High School (3000 Avenue X), was removed from the classroom and sent to the infamous
3000 ave x
Kudos to the kids from the New Visions Charter School for Advanced Math & Science III, one of the publicly-funded charter schools that moved into the Sheepshead Bay High School campus (3000 Avenue X) last fall. These kids took to the streets around the school last week, cleaning sidewalks and
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Andre Civil (Source: ScarletKnights.com)Way, way back in the halycon days of May 2008, when Sheepshead Bites had just launched, the fourth story ever published on this site was about the recruitment of Sheepshead Bay High School (3000 Avenue X) football’s defensive end Andre Civil to Rutgers University
batteries
Sheepshead Student Jihad Teeba (center) (Photo courtesy of Brian Scios)A Sheepshead Bay High School (3000 Avenue X) took home top honors at the 18th annual Quality of Life INNOVATIONS (QLI) Awards Ceremony. The QLI program, which invites students to tackle and attempt to solve real world problems, honored Jihad
3000 ave x
Source: Wikimedia CommonsThe Panel for Educational Policy, which has the final say on closing schools in New York City, voted last night to approve plans to phase out and ultimately shutter Sheepshead Bay High School and 21 other schools at the end of this semester. Much like the closure hearing
conflict of interest
John O’Mahoney, the current interim principal of Sheepshead Bay High School, has been fined $4,000 after admitting to pressuring the principal of another school to hire his wife, and then demanding they keep her on staff despite school-wide budget cuts. At the time, O’Mahoney was working as
Abraham Lincoln High School
Source: WBUR/FlickrCricket is one of the fastest growing sports in America, and it is extremely popular in Brooklyn. And high school teams are picking up steam. Who knew? The top cricket players of New York City’s high schools were selected to partake in the 2012 NYC Mayor’s
Education
William E. Grady High School (25 Brighton 4th Road) students and alumni gathered on the sidewalk between the school and Shore Parkway Wednesday to rally against the school’s impending closure – and they put the blame for their recent hardships on Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Hundreds of cars coming off the
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Coach John Padula and members of Sheepshead Bay High School's track team proudly display their First Place trophy for beating 800 teams and coming in first at the Bishop Loughlin Games this month. (Photo: Michèle De Meglio)Sheepshead Bay High School is under fire [/tag/sheepshead-bay-high-school/] for what
charter schools
Courtesy of WikipediaWe haven’t been able to confirm it, but GerritsenBeach.net [http://www.gerritsenbeach.net/2010/01/31/sheepshead-bay-high-school-going-to-close/] is reporting that Sheepshead Bay High School, John Dewey High School, William E. Grady High School, and FDR High School are set to close by the end of 2010.