 Closed in 2007, The Springfield Gardens High School building is now a complex made up of four other schools named Springfield Gardens Educational Campus.The schools are named Preparatory Academy for Writers, Queens Preparatory Academy, Excelsior Preparatory High School and George Washington Carver High School for the Sciences.Opening in 1965, Springfield Gardens High School was plagued by poor test scores and a high drop-out rate by the late–1970s.