History of Marine Park
In the early 1900s developers began making elaborate plans to turn Jamaica Bay into a port, dredging the Rockaway channel to allow large ships to enter the proposed harbor. Speculators anticipated a real estate boom and bought land along the Jamaica Bay waterfront. Fearing that the relatively pristine marshland around Gerritsen Creek would be destroyed, philanthropists Frederick B. Pratt and Alfred T. White gifted the city 150 acres in the area for use as a park in 1917. After a seven-year delay, the City accepted their offer and began to design what would become Marine Park. The prospect of a new park inspired developers to erect new homes in the area, although park improvements were slow to follow.
Marine Park JHS 278 is a Junior High School serving grade levels 06, 07, and 08 workings collaboratively with students, parents, and teachers to achieve academic excellence by providing an atmosphere that recreates the former concept of school as an extension of each student's own home.
Our school embraces all abilities and learning styles so no child is left behind when it comes to studying which also includes extracurricular activities including Homework Help, School Dances, Theatre Arts Program, After School Sports Program, Academic Remediation, Jazz, Chorus, Band, Concert, Yearbook, Field Day, Project Arts, Enrichment After School Programs like Specialized High School Testing Prep, and a Saturday Program.
Marine Park JHS 278 also has special programs which lead to regents' certification in Algebra 1, Earth Science, Living Environment, US History, and Foreign Language Proficiency (Spanish). Take a tour of our school ! Come see us in action! For more information please contact our parent coodinator.