Herbert H. Lehman High School
3000 East Tremont Avenue | also 2964 East Tremont Avenue | Schuylerville | built 1967
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- 1974
Lehman High School graduates its first class
The public high school on East Tremont Avenue in Westchester Square, named for former New York governor Herbert Henry Lehman, sent off its first graduates in June 1974. It has no tie to Lehman College, which shares the namesake. Later alumni include rapper Cardi B, activist Tarana Burke, baseball player Bobby Bonilla and Congressman Ritchie Torres.
“The school's first graduating class was in June 1974.”
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- 2008
Principal Robert Leder resigns after an overtime investigation
Robert Leder, the school's second principal, led Lehman for most of its 37 years. After a city Department of Education inquiry into two assistant principals and misuse of overtime money, he was told to resign at year's end or be removed and reassigned at once. Despite protests from students and parents, he stepped down effective June 30, 2008.
“His decision, amid a great deal of student and parent protest, was to resign effective June 30, 2008.”
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- 2009
Deborah Vance leads Lehman football as the PSAL's only woman head coach
Lehman's varsity football team was long coached by Carmine Colasanto, who won more than 200 games and coached future NFL player Doug Marrone before resigning ahead of the 2008 season. The team is now led by Deborah Vance, the only woman head football coach in the city's public school league. In 2009 she took Lehman from a 1-8 record to 5-4 and a playoff berth.
“…now led by the only woman head football coach in the PSAL, Ms Deborah Vance ... leading Lehman from 1–8 to a 5–4 record and a playoff appearance in 2009…”
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- 2023
Lehman leaves state receivership in good standing
Lehman barely escaped a state shutdown in 2013 and was labeled an out-of-time school in 2015. Under principal John Powers the graduation rate climbed from 40 percent in 2015 to 82 percent by August 2022, and on April 30, 2023, he announced that the school was out of receivership and rated in good standing. Powers retired the next day.
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