The Wadleigh High School Collection provides some documentation about Wadleigh High School, and the two schools (Wadleigh Junior High School 88 and Wadleigh Secondary School) later housed in the same building. The bulk of the documents deal with the time period when students and staff are predominately black. The Wadleigh High School series includes information about the history of the school and building, a literary journal from the French Department (1939), a yearbook (1942), programs, biographical information and obituaries about the alumni and staff, and documentation regarding the building's designation as a landmark site by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1994. The Wadleigh Junior High School 88 series includes information about the Wadleigh Scholarship Program, an organization established in 1964 which identified and provided assistance to minority students (then the majority of the student body) pursuing scholarships to preparatory schools throughout the country. One can find printed material about its alumni and staff, programs and skits of the Faculty Follies (1967-1969), the yearbook, Wadleigh Way (1967-1990), literary journals and a memoir written by an alumnus. Most of the series consists of lesson plans, tests and grade books (1959-1987) generated by Doris Brunson, long-time English teacher at Wadleigh. Wadleigh High School Alumni Association series incorporates material from three of the incarnations that the school has taken on in its more than one hundred-year history and is primarily concerned with the planning of the 100th anniversary luncheon in 1999. There are also minutes from 1987, programs from other reunions (1980-2005), and a scrapbook containing news clippings, programs and related printed material for the Alumni Association's annual luncheons and other events (1980-1984), and related documents. The series Wadleigh Secondary School discusses the establishment and renovation of the school, including information from the New York City School Construction Authority, graduation programs and a yearbook (1996).
