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Christopher Columbus High School is a public secondary school located in the Pelham Parkway, northeast section of the Bronx, New York. It is within walking distance from the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden. It currently enrolls over 2000 students in grades 9 through 12. The student body is diverse, with students whose families come from 66 countries. Seventy-four percent of its faculty have Masters degrees. The current principal is Lisa Maffei-Fuentes. ==Partnerships and Special Programs== Columbus High School has been a member of the Foundation for Excellent Schools since 1997.〔(FES at Christopher Columbus )〕 It has a partnership with the University of Vermont, which offers special courses at Columbus. JetBlue Airlines provides free transportation to faculty and students travelling between Vermont and the Bronx.〔(University of Vermont Connection )〕 As of June 2004, Columbus High School was broken down into the Christopher Columbus Educational Campus and shared its premises with four, smaller, specialized schools: *Pelham Preparatory Academy *Global Enterprise Academy *Astor Collegiate High School *Collegiate Institute for Math and Science (Principal Estelle Hans)(CIMS)〔(Collegiate Institute for Math and Science )〕 The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts, originally the first small school to move into the campus, moved out at the end of the 2004 school year. It currently resides in the old Mercy College Bronx campus which it shares with one other small school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christopher Columbus High School (Bronx)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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