A half-dozen high schools and several small schools created since 2003 will begin closing at the end of the school year, the Department of Education said yesterday.
The latest death knell brings the number of schools shuttering this year to 17 — with more announcements likely.
The affected high schools are Beach Channel in Queens, Paul Robeson and Metropolitan Corporate Academy in Brooklyn, Columbus HS in The Bronx, and Manhattan’s Norman Thomas HS and the high-school grades at the Choir Academy of Harlem.
Newer schools that are closing are The Bronx’s New Day Academy, which opened in 2005, and Global Enterprise HS, which opened in 2003, and the Middle School for Academic and Social Excellence in Brooklyn, which opened in 2005 to replace another failing school.
Education officials cited low graduation rates and enrollment as necessitating most of the closures.