{"id":222811,"date":"2026-05-07T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222811\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:48:08","slug":"bronx-school-of-hip-hop-launches-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/222811\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx School Of Hip-Hop Launches This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/17781180451716.jpg\" alt=\"Hip Hop 50th Anniversary Celebration Held At Spot Of First Hip Hop Party In The Bronx\" class=\"wp-image-3053482\"  \/>Source: David Dee Delgado \/ Getty<\/p>\n<p>The New York City <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/education\/2026\/05\/05\/the-bronx-school-of-hip-hop--a-new-public-high-school--to-open-this-fall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">borough<\/a> that gave birth to Hip-Hop, the Bronx, will now be home to the first high school dedicated to the craft. The Bronx School of Hip-Hop will officially welcome its first class of ninth-graders this fall, one of five throughout the city that will open its doors.<\/p>\n<p>The school was first approved by the city\u2019s Panel of Educational Policy last December and will open in the Claremont neighborhood. \u201cHip-Hop reflects the brilliance of our students, their potential, and while the world has profited off Hip-Hop \u2026 it\u2019s time for our students and our community to make sure that it belongs and continues to belong to us,\u201d said District 9 superintendent Harry Sherman to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chalkbeat.org\/newyork\/2025\/12\/18\/officials-say-the-bronx-school-of-hip-hop-is-first-of-its-kind\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chalkbeat.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For veteran educator Jason Reyes, who will be the high school\u2019s incoming principal, it\u2019s a natural move. \u201cHip-Hop is like our number one export out of the Bronx, right?\u201d he said to NY1, who covered the announcement by Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels on Tuesday (May 5).<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tLove Hip-Hop Wired? Get more! Join the Hip-Hop Wired Newsletter\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-ione-newsletter-sign-up__privacy\">\n\t\t\t\t\tWe care about your data. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/urban1.com\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">privacy policy<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did they see themselves, they had an understanding, like, that this belongs to us as our lineage,\u201d\u00a0 Reyes continued. \u201cWhich led them to just really be way more engaged. And you just see the difference in attendance. You see the difference in achievement, right? So why not build a school that is rooted in so much genius and excellence?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Bronx School of Hip-Hop will give students the chance to learn elements of the culture such as deejaying, graffiti, and breaking, but within highly structured academic instruction. According to its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/myschools.nyc\/en\/schools\/high-school\/09X657\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MySchools page<\/a>, there will be a \u201cRegents and AP-core aligned curriculum\u201d in conjunction with project-based learning through public exhbitions and performance-based assessments.<\/p>\n<p>Students will be grouped in classes that operate like a studio while having the opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and earn certifications and credentials used by professionals in the media industry. \u201cThey\u2019ll be able to go out into the world after they actually graduate with credentials and say, \u2018listen, I know how to do audio engineering. I know beat production. I know video and graphic design,\u2019\u201d Reyes said.<\/p>\n<p>The school\u2019s official opening is another early highlight of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s first term. A graduate of Bronx High School of Sciences, Mamdani became popular partially through his own stint as the rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/hiphopwired.com\/3051586\/mamdanis-tax-return-includes-rapping-royalties\/\" id=\"3051586\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Cardamom<\/a>, which resurfaced during his campaign for mayor last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: David Dee Delgado \/ Getty The New York City borough that gave birth to Hip-Hop, the Bronx,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-222811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}