Thomas A. Edison High School (Queens)

Thomas A. Edison Career and Technical Education High School (often referred to locally simply as Edison) is a four-year public secondary school in Queens's Jamaica Hills community in New York City. It is one of the few public high schools in New York City to offer vocational training programs as well as traditional college preparatory tracks and is well known for its largely male population. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Graduates have gained acceptance to schools such as Vanderbilt University, Bucknell University, Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, University of California, Notre Dame, University of Virginia, New York University, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Harvard University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, and Stanford University.