• Source: Rice High School (Manhattan)

Rice High School was a private, Catholic, college preparatory high school in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, United States. It is located within the Archdiocese of New York. The school closed in 2011 due to financial difficulties.




Background


Rice High School was established in 1938 in Central Harlem by the Congregation of Christian Brothers, who continued to fund the school through much of its existence. Named for Irish missionary and educator Edmund Rice, it was located at 124th Street and Lenox Avenue and was known as a basketball powerhouse producing alumni that included Kemba Walker. The school's basketball team won the CHSAA championship in 1994 with a roster that included Felipe López.
The school was the subject of a 2008 book by Patrick McCloskey, The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem.
Amid declining enrollment, reduced endowment and increasing operational costs, the school made the decision to close in 2011 after they could not raise the needed funds to move to a cheaper building. It held its final graduation ceremony on May 27, 2011 and vacated the building on June 30 of that same year.
As of August 2021, a group of alumni are working to reopen the school, although there is no clear timeline for this.




Notable alumni and staff


Shagari Alleyne, basketball player, Class of 2002
Andre Barrett, basketball player, Class of 2000
Steve Burtt Jr., basketball player, 2007-08 top scorer in the Israel Basketball Premier League
Bill Campion, basketball player, Class of 1971
Keydren Clark, basketball player, Class of 2002
Nelson A. Diaz, Esq. - Former Philadelphia City Solicitor, Court of Common Pleas Judge and General Counsel of HUD
Chris Fouch, basketball player, Class of 2008
Tom Gorman, baseball player and umpire, former coach at Rice
Charles Hamilton, hip hop artist, Class of 2005
Curtis Kelly, basketball player, Class of 2006
Bob Lienhard, basketball player, Class of 1966
Felipe López, basketball player, Class of 1994
Darryl McDaniels, founding member of the hip hop group Run–D.M.C.
David Freeman Wooley, director, producer, author and entrepreneur, Class of 1978
Dean Meminger, basketball player and coach, Class of 1967
Russell Robinson, basketball player, Class of 2004
Kenny Satterfield, basketball player, Class of 1999
Durand Scott, basketball player, Class of 2009
Edgar Sosa, basketball player, Class of 2006
Kemba Walker, basketball player, Class of 2008
Charlie Yelverton, basketball player, Class of 1967




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