Christopher Columbus High School is a public secondary school located in the Pelham Parkway, northeast section of the Bronx, New York. It is within walking distance from the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden.It currently enrolls over 2000 students in grades 9 through 12. The student body is diverse, with students whose families come from 66 countries. Seventy-four percent of its faculty have master's degrees. The current principal is Lisa Maffei-Fuentes.Partnerships and Special ProgramsColumbus High School has been a member of the Foundation for Excellent Schools since 1997. It has a partnership with the University of Vermont, which offers special courses at Columbus. JetBlue Airlines provides free transportation to faculty and students travelling between Vermont and the Bronx.As of June 2004, Columbus High School was broken down into the Christopher Columbus Educational Campus and shared its premises with four, smaller, specialized schools:Pelham Preparatory AcademyGlobal Enterprise AcademyAstor Collegiate High SchoolCollegiate Institute for Math and Science (Principal Estelle Hans)(CIMS)As of 2016, Columbus High School is composed of five, smaller, specialized schools: Collegiate Institute For Math and Science (CIMS) High School for Language and Innovation Bronxdale High School Astor Collegiate Academy Pelham Parkway Academy The Bronx High School for the Visual Arts, originally the first small school to move into the campus, moved out at the end of the 2004 school year. It currently resides in the old Mercy College Bronx campus which it shares with one other small school.
