A school-within-a-school is a small, autonomous program housed within a larger school building. Schools-within-schools have their own culture, program, personnel, students, budget, and school space. Like academies, the school-within-a-school structure supports constructive relationships between and among students and teachers by grouping students together each year to take core courses with the same group of teachers, thus increasing the supports students receive from peers, teachers, and other adults.

Christopher Columbus High School's College Now (CN) Program is a partnership between New York City's high schools and Lehman College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). The goal of CN is to provide underrepresented and low-income students who are in the middle of the bell curve with the extra support and skills they will need to meet high school graduation and college admissions requirements, and to rise to the academic demands of a college curriculum.
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Bronx, NY