New Utrecht High School

New Utrecht High School is a coeducational public high school in Brooklyn, New York City, serving 3,000+ pupils. It is part of School District 20 in New York City.Advanced Placement courses offered AP Calculus AB AP Calculus BC AP World History/Human Geography AP United States History AP United States Government and Politics AP Comparative Government and Politics AP Micro-Economics AP Macro-Economics AP English Language and Composition AP English Literature and Composition AP Chemistry AP Physics AP Biology AP PsychologyIn popular cultureNew Utrecht High School is the venue for key scenes in the 1947 movie It Happened in Brooklyn, starring Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Jimmy Durante, and Peter Lawford.The front and rear views of the school building were employed in opening and closing scenes of the popular TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter—which starred alumnus Gabe Kaplan.Extra curricular activitiesStudent governmentNew Utrecht has an active student government, which is elected every May. For close to a century the student government positions were Mayor, Deputy Mayor, Secretary, Treasurer, and student representatives from each grade. The mayoral theme was a longstanding tradition that stemmed from the fact that New Utrecht (the neighborhood) was named by Dutch settlers after the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 2015, the student government decided to change the name of the two major positions of Mayor and Deputy Mayor to Student Body President and Student Body Vice President. The New Utrecht High School Student Government is responsible for allocating funds to clubs, as well as organizing a School Spirit Week, a Thanksgiving Dinner, a Toy Drive, and other annual, school-wide events.