Evander Childs High School, May 11, 1938.

Evander Childs, a lifelong New Yorker and graduate of City College, was a teacher and administrator in city schools for over fifty years. Childs died in post, in 1912: stricken, “he fell forward with a cry and struck heavily on his desk” in the principal’s office of P.S. 10 in Morrisania.

In 1930, the Department of Education named its new, 4,700 student Williamsbridge high school for Childs. The massive Italian Renaissance campus was part of a flurry of school construction in the late 1920s.

In 2008, the high school closed after years of poor performance, and was split into six specialized schools located in the Childs campus.