It was to have shades of red brick, a gray slate roof, and a limestone trim. establishing a high point in the city's building program". Buck, called it "the most beautiful educational structure in the city. The vice president of the board at the time, Ellsworth S. It was expected to cost $3,225,000 (equivalent to $62,800,000 in 2021), and it was to be built in a modified Georgian design. Local residents were sending their kids to the aforementioned schools, since the growing community at Forest Hills did not yet have a local high school. In 1939, the Board of Education planned to build a new school adjoining "the World Fair's Grounds" (today's Flushing Meadows-Corona Park), in order to alleviate overcrowding at Newtown, Grover Cleveland, and Jamaica High Schools. In 1938, while announcing plans for new construction, the Cord Meyer Development Company, already responsible for the development of most of Forest Hills, mentioned that plans for a high school were under consideration, in order to accommodate the growing population of families in the area and their demands for quality, public education. Plans for a new high school were in the works since 1937, when the Board of Education announced plans for "a new building at Forest Hills High School, 110th Street and Sixty-sixth Road, Queens, $2,900,000". News & World Report 's list of the best high schools in the nation. The school is a recipient of the silver medal from U.S. Traditionally, a large percentage of FHHS graduates have gone on to attend colleges. The school serves students from Forest Hills and Rego Park, as well as other nearby Queens neighborhoods such as Corona, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Flushing, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, and Woodside.įHHS has often been extremely overcrowded throughout its history, often running several overlapping sessions.
Dedicated in 1937, it educates students in grades 9–12 and is operated by the New York City Department of Education.
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