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Named after the district superintendent of schools, Julia Richman, it houses six autonomous small schools for approximately 1,800 Pre-K through 12th grade students in the former building of Julia Richman High School, a comprehensive high school that operated until 1995.
In 1995, Julia Richman High School graduated its last class, creating space for smaller schools to occupy the newly renamed Julia Richman Education Complex (JREC -- pronounced "jay-rec"). Under a memorandum of understanding with the City, Urban Academy became the lead school in the new complex.
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The now defunct Julia Richman High School was named in her honor. Family and education. Richman was born on October 12, 1855, at 156 Seventh Avenue, New York City, the neighborhood of Chelsea, Manhattan. She was the third child of her parents, Moses and Theresa Melis Richman, with two younger and two older siblings.
The Julia Richman Educational Complex houses an elementary school, a middle school, four high schools, an infant toddler center for children of teen parents, and a teacher center. Service is an important feature of this diverse, multi-generational community, so students volunteer their time to help out in the other schools and centers.
Julia Richman (1855-1912) was the first woman district superintendent of schools in the City of New York. Her innovations, leadership and curriculum brought an entire new dimension to public school education at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Now Julia Richman High School is known as the Julia Richman Education Complex. Today the complex houses an arts center, dance studios, an infant toddler center, gyms, theaters, darkrooms, ceramics studio and six autonomous schools that serve a diverse population.
