St. Francis Preparatory School

61-00 Francis Lewis Boulevard | Fresh Meadows | built 1966

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1974
St. Francis Prep moves from Williamsburg into the former Bishop Reilly High School and admits girls
The school traces its roots to St. Francis Academy, a small boys' school on Baltic Street in Brooklyn run by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn; it took the St. Francis Prep name in 1935 and moved to Williamsburg in 1952. In 1974 it acquired this Fresh Meadows building, previously home to the coeducational Bishop Reilly High School, and began taking female students the same year.
Source: Wikipedia
2015
St. Francis Prep enrolls 2,489 students, with the Franciscan Brothers living on its top floor
St. Francis Prep counted 2,489 students in the 2015-16 school year. It is the largest Catholic high school in the United States not run by a diocese. The school is operated by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, who keep their residence on the building's top floor.
“St. Francis is run by the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, who maintain a residence on the top floor of the school.”
Source: Wikipedia

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