City Polytechnic High School is an early college high school located in Brooklyn that allows students to earn an associate's degree while completing high school. It has a diverse student body and focuses on career and technical education programs in engineering. Students take college-level courses in their third year and can earn up to 64 college credits. The school partners with CUNY's College of Technology and supports students' transitions to college through resources and preparation. It aims to increase graduation rates and prepare more students for careers in STEM fields through its accelerated program model.

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An Early College Model for Engineering
Academies:
An Accelerated Career and Technical
Education Program

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Who We Are
Wandy Chang
Math, Engineering & Architecture Teacher
Practicing Architect
Club Advisor to the Civil Engineering Club
Steven Coyle
Science & Engineering Teacher
Club Advisor to the Robotics Team

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Located in Downtown Brooklyn within
Brooklyn’s “Tech Triangle” inside the George
Westinghouse Campus
City Polytechnic High School

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City Polytechnic High School
One of 35 NAF career academies in New York City
First Unscreened Early College High School in NYC
Students can earn both a high school diploma and an Associate’s degree or up
to two years of credit toward a Bachelor’s degree
Post Secondary Partner
City University of New York’s College of Technology
Trimester Schedule
Students take 7 credit bearing courses each trimester with an extended day
schedule
High School Requirements completed within 3 Years
Students complete an average of 3 years of coursework during their first
2 years and a regular semester schedule in their 3rd year.

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City Polytechnic High School
Student Demographics (2010-2011)
Eligible for Free or Reduced Lunch: 76%
Limited English Proficiency: 5%
Black or African American: 63%
Hispanic or Latino: 24%
Asian: 9%
White: 4%
Special Education: 17%(+7% of NYC schools average)
Male: 80%
Female: 20%
Attendance Rate: 88%

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CUNY’s College of Technology (City Tech)
City Tech awarded $450K in Smart Scholar’s Grant
to fund college classes for CPHS students
Courses during their third year include:
Introduction to Architectural Design, Introduction to
Construction Drawings, Pre-calculus, Calculus, Freshmen
English Seminar, Computer Technology
College Access Credits
Third Year 1-2 college courses Fall semester 2-7
1-2 college courses Spring Semester 2-7
Fourth Year Full-time enrollment 32
Fifth Year Full-time enrollment 32
Total 4 - 64

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City Poly CTE Curriculum
Year One:
Introduction to Engineering
Design (PLTW)
• Understand and draw 3D objects
into a 2D format
• Autodesk Inventor for 3D Modeling
Integrated Projects
Project based Design Class reinforces
IED concepts and skills

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City Poly CTE Curriculum
Year One:
Art and Architecture
• Constructed scaled floor plans
• Build scaled models using chipboard and exacto knives
• Google Sketchup with fly-through videos
• One & Two Point Perspectives

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City Poly CTE Curriculum
Year Two:
Civil Engineering & Architectural Design (PLTW)
• Design working scale models and prototypes
• Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit
• West Point Bridge Designer
• Alternative Energy Sources &
Sustainability
• Statics, Motion, Structure

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City Poly CTE Curriculum
Year Three:
Engineering Design and Development (PLTW)
• Research, Design, Construct a solution to an open-
ended design problem
• Reverse Engineering
• Write a Business Proposal
• Present an Idea to Panel of Community Members

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City Poly, Career Ready
Workplace Portfolios:

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City Poly and Academic Programs
• NYC Explorers Program
• Cooper Union Summer Program
• Cornell’s CURIE Academy
• Cornell’s Catalyst Summer Program
• Steven’s Summer Institute for Technology
• Columbia’s Summer of Innovation Program
• City Tech Summer Bridge Program

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City Poly and Student Internships
Students are placed into
Internships via our
Advisory Board including firms
such as:
Robert Stern Architects
Parsons Brinkerhoff
BuroHappold
School Construction Authority
SCIP
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City Tech

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City Poly and Summer CTE Scholars
Program and Process
30 Students Accepted with an
Application, Essay,
Recommendations and Interview
Job Readiness “Boot Camp”
Classroom learning, and related
workplace internships, including
professional office conduct,
interviewing and meeting skills,
resume writing and career goal-
setting.

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City Poly After School Clubs
Civil Engineering Club
• First ASCE sponsored high
school club in U.S.
• Field Trips
• Designed and Constructed
stage for school play
• Designed and Constructed a
scale model of a Cable-
Stayed Bridge to support club
member’s weight

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City Poly After School Clubs
Robotics Club “We build people, not machines”
• Started in 2010, in FIRST Robotics Competition.

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City Poly Robotics Club
• In 2011, expanded to
two competitive teams.
• In 2012, further
expansion to three
teams and finished 12th
and 23rd overall in NYC
Regional Competition at
the Jacob Javits Center.

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City Poly Robotics Clubs
In 2013, offering an all female team to
encourage women in engineering.

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City Poly and Women in Transportation
• Encourage girls to seek career opportunities in
low-female occupations
• Job Shadowing
• Site Visits
• One-on-One Career Mentoring

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City Poly and the Community
Principal Chris Aguirre, teachers Henry Arias, Samantha Stewart,
and Steven Coyle and 12 student volunteers.
Help clean up fellow students that
were affected by Superstorm Sandy
in the Rockaways.

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City Poly and the Community

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Applying to City Tech (Our College Partner)
• Simple, one page form
• No application fees
• No SAT, essays, or recommendations required
• Students must meet proficiency requirements
 Reading/Writing: at least 75 on ELA Regents exam, at least
480 SAT Verbal/Critical Writing score, or at least 20 ACT
English score
 Math: at least 80 on a NYS math Regents exam and 6 units of
high school math including algebra, geometry, and
trigonometry, or at least 500 SAT Math score, or at least 21
ACT Math score

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What the City Poly Families Save
Year Description Annual Savings to Family
Third Year Tuition $1,500
Books and supplies $250
Application fee $65
Part-time student fees $200
Total $2,015
Fourth Full-time tuition (2 semesters) $4,830
& Fifth Years Books and supplies (varies by major) $1,600 - $4,800
Full-time student fees $370
MetroCard $832
Total $6,800 - $10,000
Not required SAT $47/test + $10-21/subject test
College application fees $50-$100/college
CSS profile form (for financial aid) $9 + $16/college applied to

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City Tech Resources for City Poly Students
• We started interacting with Student Support
Services (some colleges call this office Disability
Services) and the ESOL program about 1 year
before students enrolled full-time so we could
understand their requirements for intake
• Training for Special Education teachers to
implement student-led IEP meetings to encourage
students to self-advocate as they will need to in
college

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City Tech Resources for City Poly Students
• Worked with School Psychologist so students could
have updated evaluations for college even when it
is wasn't "due" according to HS mandated
requirements
• Coordinated intake interviews at Student Support
Services so that students could attend during
school day and so that paperwork was complete
for referral

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City Tech Resources for City Poly Students
• Provided additional reading and writing skill
support at the high school for students in college
(e.g., study hall with ESL teacher, weekly check in
with Special Education teacher, etc.)
• Introduced assistive technology (i.e., Kindle
Touch's with "text to speech") for students

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What Have We Learned
• New York City-wide Graduation Rate in 4 years: 61%
• City Poly High School Requirements Completed in 3
years: 66%
“…low percentage of students graduating college and career ready,
particularly students of color, English Language Learners, and students with
disabilities. The performance gap between high need and low need districts
continues to be nearly 30 percent, with nearly 94 percent of students from
low need districts graduating as opposed to only 65 percent of students from
high need urban-suburban districts earning a high school diploma. King also
said the graduation rate for white students is nearly 28 percentage points
higher than the rates for Black and Hispanic students. The college and career
readiness gap is even greater.” – nysed.gov

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What Have We Learned (3rd Year Classes)
• 77% of students who originally enrolled, remained at CityTech
for the semester (a lower rate of freshman withdrawal than
typically found at CityTech which is 30%)
• Of those students who continued, 97% received college credit,
33% received an A, 54% received a B, 6% received a C and 2%
received a D.
• All ELL students who enrolled received credit, earning 2 A's
and 2 B's, 73% of the IEP students received college credit and
all students designated as IEP and ELL earned college credit.

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Conclusions and Questions?