City-As-School
Coordinates: 40°43′44.79″N 74°0′22.04″W / 40.7291083°N 74.0061222°W
City-As-School is a public high school located at 16 Clarkson Street between Hudson Street and Seventh Avenue South in the West Village of Manhattan, New York City. Since its opening in 1972, City As School has been distinguished by its curricular focus on experiential learning through internship. The school has been the nation’s leading external learning or experiential learning model for high school students.
City As School is built on the idea that all children learn differently, some learn by seeing, some by hearing, others by doing. The school's stated objective is to help strengthen, motivate and guide students through their high school experience.
One of America's oldest alternative public high schools, City As School was founded by Frederick J. Koury (who died July 7, 2010) and Rick Safran in 1972.
In an interview with student Belinda Day ('10), co-founder Fred Koury recalled the founding of the school:
Before he founded City As School, teacher Fred Koury took students on field trips whenever possible. These off-campus trips inspired Koury: connect the classroom to the real working world. Koury believed that learning could come from sources beyond the classroom. Book-learning, Koury thought, was only half of the equation. By linking experience to academics, a student's educational path was widened.
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