Andrew Jackson High School is a defunct comprehensive high school in the Cambria Heights section in southeastern Queens, New York. The school was opened in 1937. However, the city closed down the school in 1994. At its nadir in 1970, police broke up a heroin-processing factory in the school's basement.
Since its closure the building was renamed Campus Magnet High School. It contains into several different high schools centered around various professional themes: Business, Computer Applications and Entrepreneurship; Humanities and the Arts; Law, Government and Community Service; Mathematics/Science Research and Technology. The schools' graduation rate in 2010 approximated the graduation rate of the original school in 1992. The multi-school campus is at 207-11 116th Avenue.
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