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A former jewel of a high school and two smaller programs opened since 2003 were among four schools tagged for closure by the city yesterday.

Jamaica HS in Queens, the School for Community Research and Learning in The Bronx, and the Academy of Collaborative Education in Manhattan were slated to begin phasing out this summer, along with Brooklyn’s PS 332.

The four schools, which joined four others put on the chopping block a day earlier, collectively serve about 2,600 students.

The shuttering of Jamaica HS would be the final chapter for a school that for decades had been considered top tier.

In recent years, staffers had been battling to make improvements after Jamaica came off the state’s list of persistently dangerous schools. But they failed to get the graduation rate above 50 percent.

“I’m upset. People told me it wouldn’t be safe to go to Jamaica, but it’s not a bad school,” said sophomore Karl Ravilus, 15.

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