public high school in New York City, located at 5800 20th Avenue in the borough of Brooklyn
. It is a zoned/public high school, with an enrollment of approximately 3,700 students, encompassing grades 9–12. In total, the school includes 280,717 sq feet of class space, gyms, cafeteria, and auditorium.
Programs
The Brooklyn school offers Art, Business, Computers, Music, Social Sciences and Physical Education. Their foreign language programs include Chinese and Spanish. The school offers 18 AP classes.
The school also provides Instructional Support Services for students such as Collaborative Team Teaching (CTT) classes, SETSS classes, and Bilingual classrooms. FDR High School also has a rigorous honors program, for example, Honors Algebra 1, Honors Chemistry, Honors Geometry, Honors Sophomore English, Honors Physics, Honors Algebra 2/Trigonometry, Honors Participation in Government, Honors Economics, and a special class called "Pre-Calculus for Juniors only" a class offered to students who have taken Algebra 1 in eighth grade.
FDR is also home to an alternative program called the Young Adult Borough Center (YABC) that provides over-aged and under-credited high school students with alternative means to obtain their high school diploma. Classes are offered in the evenings Monday through Thursday and students in good academic standing are provided a paid internship during the day.
Bell Schedule
2023-2024 Student Bell Schedule
Period
Time
Period 1
7:45am-8:32am
Period 2
8:36am-9:23am
Period 3
9:27am-10:15am
Period 4
10:19am-11:07am
Period 5
11:11am-11:59am
Period 6
12:03pm-12:51pm
Period 7
12:55pm-1:43pm
Period 8
1:47pm-2:35pm
Period 9
2:39pm-3:26pm
Period 10
3:30pm-4:17pm
Student Bell Schedule Prior to September 2023
Period
Time
Period 1
8:00am-8:47am
Period 2
8:51am-9:38am
Period 3
9:42am-10:31am
Period 4
10:35am-11:23am
Period 5
11:27am-12:15pm
Period 6
12:19pm-1:07pm
Period 7
1:11pm-1:59pm
Period 8
2:03pm-2:50pm
Period 9
2:54pm-3:41pm
Period 10
3:45pm-5:00pm
Extracurricular activities
Sports
The Roosevelt High School offers a number of athletic activities for its students. For boys, they offer baseball, varsity and junior varsity basketball, bowling, football, handball, outdoor track, cricket, table tennis, soccer, tennis, volleyball, and wrestling, while girls have available basketball, bowling, handball, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. The Girls Tennis Team won the 2011 PSAL Championship. The Cricket Team won the 2010 and 2011 PSAL Championship. The school has recently launched a dance team. Roosevelt has weight training and cardio facilities with gym and exercise equipment. Roosevelt received a grant for a few million dollars and built a field for sports and other events. In the spring of 2014, coach Yellen founded the FDR Badminton team. Throughout the year, the badminton team won 10–0 in the city tournaments, and in addition, won 2–0 in the state finals. FDR High School's badminton team was the first-ever recipient of the PSAL Badminton cup.[needs update]
Notable alumni
Eric Johnson (born 1966), former professional basketball player who had a brief career in the NBA for the Utah Jazz.[2]
Vinnie Johnson (born 1956), professional basketball player (1979–92).[3]
^Ramirez, Jeanine. "Before His Impeachment Testimony, a Lieutenant Colonel Was Raised in Brooklyn", NY1, November 19, 2019. Accessed December 1, 2019. "Vindman graduated from FDR High School in Bensonhurst in 1993, then went on to SUNY Binghamton and the Army, earning a Purple Heart after a roadside bombing in Iraq. He later earned a masters degree at Harvard."