The Theodore Roosevelt High School is a public high school

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 (grades 9-12) operated by Yonkers Public Schools

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, located on the corner of Tuckahoe Road and Central Park Avenue in Yonkers, New York

Yonkers, New York

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. It shares its campus with Early College High School, which will gradually replace Roosevelt High School by 2013 due to low academic achievement.

Mary J. Blige

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 attended this school and dropped out during her junior year.
Steven Tallarico, better known as Steven Tyler

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, the lead singer for Aerosmith

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 and a judge on American Idol

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also attended and was expelled from this school due to drug use .