Albany High School (New York)
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Albany High School (AHS) in Albany, New York, United States, is a public high school with an enrollment of about 2,600 students for the 2017-18 school year. The school is part of the City School District of Albany. It opened on September 7, 1868, as the Albany Free Academy. Albany High has been located at 700 Washington Avenue since 1974.Albany High School is an International Baccalaureate school with an Advanced Placement program. The school newspaper is The Nest (published online, it replaced the longtime print newspaper The Patroon, in 2011), the literary magazine is Inkblot, and the yearbook is Prisms.
Albany High School is the only comprehensive public high school in the city. The school is divided into four themed learning communities known as academies. Those academies are Citizenship Academy, which focuses on critical thinking and economic skills; Discovery Academy, which focuses on the arts and communication; Innovation Academy, which focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math; and Leadership Academy, which focuses on the skills needed to lead the way to a better future. All students in the school are a member of one of the four academies. Albany High School also includes the Abrookin Career and Technical Education Center, which is located three blocks away from the main high school campus. Abrookin's programmatic offerings include career and technical education (CTE) pathways such as culinary arts, cosmetology, construction technology, automotive technology and health sciences, to name a few.
