where did pres obama go to high school?
Punahou School
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 After the separation , Hawke was then raised by his mother . The two relocated several times , before settling in New York City , where Hawke attended the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn Heights . Hawke 's mother remarried when he was 10 and the family moved to West Windsor Township , New Jersey , where Hawke attended West Windsor Plainsboro High School ( renamed to West Windsor @-@ Plainsboro High School South in 1997 ) . He later transferred to the Hun School of Princeton , a secondary boarding school , from which he graduated in 1988 . 

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 After high school , Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to attend Occidental College . In February 1981 , Obama made his first public speech , calling for Occidental to participate in the disinvestment from South Africa in response to that nation 's policy of apartheid . In mid @-@ 1981 , Obama traveled to Indonesia to visit his mother and half @-@ sister Maya , and visited the families of college friends in Pakistan and India for three weeks . Later in 1981 , he transferred as a junior to Columbia College , Columbia University , in New York City , where he majored in political science with a specialty in international relations and lived off @-@ campus on West 109th Street . He graduated with a BA degree in 1983 and worked for a year at the Business International Corporation , then at the New York Public Interest Research Group . In 1985 , Obama was among the leaders of May Day efforts to bring attention to the New York City Subway system , which was in a bad condition at the time . Obama traveled to several subway stations to get people to sign letters addressed to local officials and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority , and was photographed at the City College subway station holding a sign protesting against the system 's condition . 

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 In 2011 , Bevin took all of his children out of school for a year for a 26 @,@ 000 @-@ mile ( 42 @,@ 000 km ) tour of the United States , visiting sites of educational or historical interest , including the Lorraine Motel in Memphis , Tennessee , where Martin Luther King , Jr. was assassinated and the Topeka , Kansas , schoolhouse at the center of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision . After their application to adopt a daughter from Kentucky 's foster care system was denied because they already had five children , the Bevins adopted four children – between the ages of 2 and 10 – from Ethiopia in June 2012 . By 2015 , Bevin said all of his children were homeschooled . 

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 Among a number of other schools named for Stevens , the Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in Washington , D.C. was founded in 1868 as the first school built for African @-@ American children there . It was segregated for the first 86 years of its existence . In 1977 , Amy Carter , daughter of President Jimmy Carter , a Georgian , was enrolled there , the first child of a sitting president to attend public school in almost 70 years . 

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 In high school , Hawke aspired to be a writer , but developed an interest in acting . He made his stage debut at age 13 , in a school production of George Bernard Shaw 's Saint Joan , and appearances in West Windsor @-@ Plainsboro High School productions of Meet Me in St. Louis and You Can 't Take It with You followed . At the Hun School he took acting classes at the McCarter Theatre on the Princeton campus , and after high school graduation he studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh , eventually dropping out after he was cast in Dead Poets Society ( 1989 ) . He twice enrolled in New York University 's English program , but dropped out both times to pursue acting roles . 
