Junior High School 44 in Manhattan's Upper West Side, P.S. 90 in Concourse, Bronx and P.S. 225 in Seaside, Queens are being shut down.

A Department of Education official says employees were notified of the decision Thursday.

The Manhattan and Queens schools received a "D" and the Bronx school received an "F" on recent progress reports.

J.H.S. 44 will be phased out over two years and a new junior high school will take over the building.

P.S. 90 will be replaced by two new elementary schools and P.S. 225 will be split into separate elementary and middle schools.

Some Bronx parents told NY1 they were not happy to hear the news about their neighborhood school.

"It's just ridiculous to close the institution because it doesn't make sense. This institution has been here for approximately 50 years, it's been doing well in this neighborhood here," said Rabin Mohan, whose daughter attends P.S. 90. "The 'F' doesn't matter at all. They have to look into this, it's ridiculous."

Other parents, though, were not surprised.

"I never really thought it was a good school," said a parent.

"Some of them know how to do their job, some of them don't," said another parent. "Some of them think this is where they come to get paid, whether they teach you or not. That even happened when I was growing up, so it really doesn't surprise me."

On his weekly radio show Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the closings were not related to the city's growing deficit.

"It'll probably cost us more if we didn’t close the school. This is not a budgetary thing, this is a Department of Education thing," said the mayor.

But in a statement Friday, United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said it is hard to justify closing schools rated poorly by local standards, when many of them might be rated well by state or federal standards.

According to reports, more schools could be notified in the coming weeks that they are being closed or phased out as well.