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The village evolved into a city, and started a public school system that competed with Erasmus for its student body. As a result, there was a steady decline in its enrollment until in 1896 enrollment was reduced to 150 boys and girls, up from the 105 boys who were registered in the school in 1795. [5]
The original Erasmus Hall Academy was the oldest high school in the state of New York, so Erasmus Hall High is sometimes called the “mother of high schools”. And the rooms of Erasmus Hall High have seen some of the most famous actors, musicians and celebrities in the world come through as students.
5 days ago · Inside Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall, one of the oldest schools in the country, sits the original wooden clapboard school building that dates to 1786.
Erasmus Hall, one of New York's most storied high schools -- and perhaps its most beautiful -- has gone through difficult times and many changes in the past 25 years. The famous school in Flatbush and is now home to five small schools. Read more.
5 days ago · Nestled in the middle of Brooklyn lies one of New York’s most precious yet unrecognized treasures — Erasmus Hall. Arguably the oldest secondary school in the State of New York; the school has...
Welcome to the Erasmus Hall High School Alumni Association, open to all years. Please join us and use it as a virtual meeting place to reconnect and share memories! Any information that we get regarding school activities is either via the newsletter or word of mouth.
Jun 24, 2003 · Erasmus Hall High School, originally called Erasmus Hall Academy, a private institution of higher learning founded in 1786 by Dutch settlers in Flatbush, was the first secondary school chartered by the New York Regents.
