The English High School of Boston, Massachusetts is one of the first public high schools in America, founded in 1821. Originally called The English Classical School, it was renamed The English High School upon its first relocation in 1824.[2] The current building is located in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. English High was created originally to educate working class schoolboys in preparation for business, mechanics, and engineering trades as opposed to latin-grammar schools like Boston Latin that prepared schoolboys for the college, ministry and scholarly pursuits, and private academies that were open only to affluent residents. Its original curriculum consisted of such courses as English, surveying, navigation, geography, logic, and civics as well as a strong emphasis on mathematics
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