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Clara Barton High School H.S. 600
901 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 Phone: 718-636-4901
Clara Barton High School, where we piloted our program in 2000-2001, is an educational option school, which means all of the students applied in order to be admitted. Its over 2000 students (85% of them young women) are all enrolled in academic programs that are geared toward the health professions. They are a vibrant, bright, and artistically expressive crowd. Before Opening Act began in October 2000, there were no acting or theater programs in the school. Today we have a strong group of students who have produced eight afternoons of monologues and improvisations and eight full length plays (written and acted by the students), which were performed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chashama, the Gene Frankel Theatre, HERE Arts Center and The Public Theater. In May 2008, the Clara Barton actors outdid themselves when they performed their original production of Corruption in Holywood, a madcap comedy about what happens when a prized possession goes missing at a Hollywood church.
2009-2010 Teaching Artists: Heather Acs and Paul Barker
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Clara Barton actors after their performance of an afternoon of scenes. December 2005 |
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4-year graduation rate: 63.2% 9th graders who read at grade level:38.3% Neighborhood: Prospect Heights Principal: Richard A. Forman |
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