new york city's public secondary schools include: bard high school early college, bronx high school of science, brooklyn technical high school, hunter college high school, laguardia high school, staten island technical high school, stuyvesant high school, and townsend harris high school. the city is home to the largest roman catholic high school in the u.s., st. francis preparatory school in fresh meadows, queens, and the only official italian-american school in the country, la scuola d'italia guglielmo marconi on the upper east side of manhattan.