… James A. Garfield High School plant on East Sixth Street, and another 267 nursing students enrolled to take classes at the General Hospital. On opening day, the college had twelve faculty in place. The college was organized around six major … Homemaking and Fine Arts; the Cultural Heritage; and Agriculture. Enrollments increased steadily, and thus the Board of Education purchased a thirty-seven acre (which grew to 82 acres) site at the base of Repetto Hills, on Brooklyn Avenue just …