Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus, Educational complex near Lincoln Center, United States
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus is a five-story school building at 122 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan that houses several independent schools under one roof. The structure includes an elevated plaza at street level, marked by a steel memorial sculpture at its center.
The building opened in 1975 as a single high school serving the surrounding neighborhood. Over the following decades it was gradually reorganized to bring together several distinct schools, each with its own program, within the same walls.
The campus takes its name from one of the most recognized figures of the American civil rights movement, and that connection shapes the character of the programs offered here. Visitors passing by on a school day will see students from very different backgrounds sharing the same entrance and hallways.
The campus sits on Amsterdam Avenue near Lincoln Center and is easy to reach by subway or bus. Because it is an active school campus, access inside the building is restricted, so it is worth checking in advance if you plan to visit beyond the exterior plaza.
One of the schools on the campus, the Manhattan/Hunter College High School of Science, lets students in their final year attend actual courses at Hunter College nearby. This means some students finish high school having already earned credits toward a college degree.
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