| Norman Thomas High School | |
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| Location | |
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111 East 33rd Street ,, 10016 United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°44′47.39″N73°58′50.62″W / 40.7464972°N 73.9807278°W /40.7464972; -73.9807278 |
| Information | |
| School type | Government funding,High school |
| Status | Closed |
| Closed | 2014 |
| NCES District ID | 3600077[1] |
| NCES School ID | 360007702039[2] |
| Principal | Philip Martin, Jr.[3] |
| Faculty | 114.19 (on anFTE basis)[2] |
| Grades | 9 to 12[2] |
| Enrollment | 2,147[2] (2009-2010 school year) |
| • Grade 9 | 871[2] |
| • Grade 10 | 619[2] |
| • Grade 11 | 302[2] |
| • Grade 12 | 131[2] |
| • Ungraded | 224[2] |
| Student to teacher ratio | 18.80[2] |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Colors | Maroon and Black |
| Mascot | Tigers |
| Website | www.normanthomas.info/ |
TheNorman Thomas High School for Business and Commercial Education was apublichigh school (closed in June 2014) in theMurray Hill neighborhood ofManhattan,New York City under theNew York City Department of Education. Formerly known as Central Commercial High School (CCHS), and before that, the Central School of Business and Arts, its former location was on42nd Street in a structure constructed with a 20-story office building in theair rights above it. It was renamed afterPresbyterianminister andSocialist activistNorman Thomas and moved to occupy the first nine floors of3 Park Avenue, a 42-storyskyscraper on East 33rd Street atPark Avenue in 1975.
The high school was originally designed to train students forsecretarial and commercial occupations such asaccounting,bookkeeping,merchandising andsalesmanship,clerical skills,stenography andtyping. As of 1940, every senior at Central Commercial High School was required to complete four weeks of work in an office during the last semester.[4] In later years, this expanded to include such topics asdata processing[5] andphysical distribution.[6]
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