Brooklyn Latin School
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The Brooklyn Latin School is a specialized high school in New York City, founded in 2006. The ideals governing Brooklyn Latin are borrowed largely from the Boston Latin School, and popular society's ideals. John Elwell, the school's founder, and Jason Griffiths, administer and monitor the school. As of 2013, Jason Griffiths had left the school to lead a troubled high school in New York. The new headmaster is previous math teacher Gina Mauschke.Admission to Brooklyn Latin involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Each November, about 30,000 eighth and ninth graders take the 3-hour test for admittance to eight of the nine specialized high schools. Approximately 550 to 600 applicants are accepted each year. It is the second specialized high school in Brooklyn (along with Brooklyn Technical High School) and has the distinction of being the only specialized high school in which students adhere to a school uniform. The school color, purple, reflects the preference of Roman nobility, who wore robes dyed in that color and is also the school color of the Boston Latin School, another borrowed trait.
The school spent its first six years at 325 Bushwick Avenue, in limited space. In 2013 it moved to 223 Graham Avenue, not far from the previous school.
