page_title: Gravesend, Brooklyn
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Gravesend, Brooklyn / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: This picture is of John Dewey High School's 13 acre campus, the only public school in New York City to have a 13 acre campus. The campus is also home to a bronze statue titled "The Key to Knowledge" symbolizing progressive education. However, the statue cannot be seen clearly from this picture. For the image of the statue, please refer to John Dewey High School's Wikipedia page. This picture was taken on June 11, 2011.
context_page_description: Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It is bounded on the south by Coney Island, on the west by Bath Beach, on the north by Bensonhurst, and on the east by Homecrest and Sheepshead Bay.
  Gravesend was one of the original towns in the Dutch colony of New Netherland. After the English took over, it was one of the six original towns of Kings County in colonial New York. Gravesend was the only English chartered town in what became Kings County, and is notable as being one of the first towns founded by a woman, Lady Deborah Moody. The Town of Gravesend encompassed 7,000 acres in southern Kings County, including the entire island of Coney Island, and was annexed by the City of Brooklyn in 1894.
  The modern-day neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community Board 11. As of 2010, Gravesend had a population of 29,436.
caption: John Dewey High School's campus viewed from Bay 50th Street
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