The city will open 78 traditional and public charter schools this fall, boosting the number opened on Mayor Bloomberg’s watch to 656.
The bulk of the new schools were created by the administration’s controversial practice of shuttering dozens of large, comprehensive high schools, and replacing them with handfuls of smaller, theme-based programs.
Since Blooomberg took office in 2002, 164 schools have been closed or are being phased out, including 19 that were opened by his administration.
The schools set to open in September include the so-called “H.E.R.O. High” — or Health, Education and Research Occupations HS — a grades 9-to-14 Bronx school that seeks to train kids for careers in health care, and includes two years of college.
Schoolkids also will get the opportunity to study masonry and landscaping at Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship HS in downtown Manhattan.
They can also work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security at the Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management in Hell’s Kitchen.