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The Harlem Learning Center is a Christian school located 2009/2011 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. blvd are serving grades 9 – 12. This school is not a big school, which is good. The smaller the school the better the education should be. The school is also a Christian school and is a good one in my opinion. The teachers and students were very welcoming. The students were taking class when I came in. The room had two shelves full of books. I almost thought it was a library and I almost took my library card out. The walls were colored blue as well as the desk was similar to the ones at my school as well. There were about 21 students and 2 teachers.  

When did the school start?
The school started in October 1918.                

Who started the school?
The founder of the Harlem Learning Center is Pastor Charles D Eatman.

What are the school’s passing grades?
The passing grade of the school is a 90 and above.

How do ya’ll treat each other?
The students and teachers treat each other like family. They say good morning and good-bye to each other.

What are the schools colors?
The school colors are red, white and blue for high school students. The colors are light blue for the other grades.

What do you think about the school?
This school is better and safer than public schools are.

The school also has a pace system which tells what levels a student is at. No student is force to work at the same level as another student. The paces are paid for including the admission price.  The gold pace is the highest pace in the school to have. When I ask the students why they came to the school? The main reason was because the students were doing badly in the public schools. I also ask how they found out about the school? The students said that some of their family members came to the school before them. The only thing bad about is its location in Harlem. Harlem isn’t the safest place in the world. The school has another site located at 142 west 81st street that has grades kinder-garden to middle school. The name of the school is Mt. Pleasant Community Church. If a student wants to bring a brother or sister to join the school, they need to take a pace test to see what level they are on.

The site that the school is in is very small and they are planning to move to a bigger building to bring more students into the school. The original number of students is 25, but when I came in to do the story there was only 16 students.  I also notice that since the space was small there probably wasn’t any gym. When I ask about how would stay fit, the students told me that they had a fitness program located at 126th and Lenox.

The school is an all round year school and has a summer scholarship program. The school also has a boot camp program, which the students stay, in a house for 2 weeks, they wake up at 5am and go to bed at 11pm, and they go on trips during boot camps. Speaking of trips they also have a yearly trip where they go to a place out of the country like Africa, Paris, Italy, Egypt, Spain and the Dominican Republic. Even with all of that students still wanted the school to change. I ask what about the school needs to change and they said the uniforms needs to change and that they wants to leave earlier. Sounds like my school without the trips and other excited events. The students must earn the trips they are never just given. It is a learning experience for the students as well. The students also learn Spanish as well.

There are more schools just like this one in New York. Even though this school is located in Harlem, it is a school that I would attend if I weren’t already in a high school.  This is a school I would recommend to people who are looking for a small school and a great education. If they don’t mind the location of the school than this is the perfect school for them. The only bad thing about the school is the location. Besides that the school is really good and sounds exciting.