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Metropolitan Corporate Academy

high school in Brooklyn, New York City

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6825058 ↗
Source-derived summary

Metropolitan Corporate Academy (MCA) was a public high school in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. It had approximately 400 students, grades 9–12. The principal was Lennel George. It was founded in February 1992 by New York City in partnership with Goldman Sachs.

Classes at MCA were held at a three-story brick building which used to be a Civil War infirmary.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Metropolitan Corporate Academy” as high school in Brooklyn, New York City. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Metropolitan, Corporate and Academy.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Metropolitan, Corporate and Academy providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Metropolitan Corporate Academy”, the useful work is to connect “high school in Brooklyn, New York City” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6825058. VIAF identifies the subject as 124295497. Authority coordinates are 40.687, -73.980. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Metropolitan Corporate Academy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.