Forest Hills High School (New York)

Forest Hills High School (FHHS) is in the Forest Hills neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens, near Rego Park. Dedicated in 1937, is a public secondary school in Queens, New York. It educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education.

The school serves the Forest Hills and Rego Park sections of Queens. However, many students come from nearby neighborhoods such as Kew Gardens, Jackson Heights, Woodside, Flushing, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Astoria, Corona, Glendale and parts of Jamaica.

FHHS has often been extremely overcrowded throughout its history, sometimes running several overlapping sessions (7:20am to 1:49pm, 8:09am to 2:38pm, 8:58am to 3:28pm, 9:48am to 4:17pm, 10:37am to 5:06pm). Traditionally, a very large percentage of FHHS graduates have gone on to attend prestigious colleges.

History

Plans for a new high school were in the works since 1937, when the Board of Education announced plans for "a new building at Forest Hills High School, 110th Street and Sixty-sixth Road, Queens, [for] $2,900,000." In 1938, while announcing plans for new construction, the Cord Meyer Development Company, which was already responsible for the development of most of Forest Hills, mentioned that plans for a high school were under consideration, in order to accommodate the growing population of families in the area and their demands for quality, public education.

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