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{{Short description|Specialized high school in New York City}}
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| name = Stuyvesant High School
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| motto = Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia<br />''(For knowledge and wisdom)''
| name = Stuyvesant High School
| established = 1904
| logo = Stuyvesant High School logo.svg
| type = ] (]) secondary
| motto = {{langx|la|Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia}}
| principal = Stanley Teitel
| motto_translation = For knowledge and wisdom
| faculty = 200
| address = 345 ]
| students = approx. 3,000
| city = ]
| mascot = ]
| state = ]
| colors = Red and blue
| zipcode = 10282
| city = ]
| country = United States
| state = ],
| coordinates = {{coord|40.7179|-74.0138|region:US-NY_type:edu|display=inline,title}}<ref>{{cite gnis|type=retired|2060115|Stuyvesant High School}}</ref>
| country = ]
| us_nces_school_id = {{NCES School ID|360007702877|school_name=Stuyvesant High School|access_date=May 27, 2024|ref_name="nces_sch"}}
| website =
| established = {{Start date and age|1904}}
| grades = 9-12
| schooltype = ] public high school
| address = 345 Chambers Street
| principal = ]<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802020520/https://nypost.com/2020/08/01/nycs-elite-stuyvesant-high-school-names-new-principal/ |date=August 2, 2020 }}; URL accessed August 2, 2020.</ref>
| newspaper = ''The Stuyvesant Spectator''
| faculty = 162.92 (on ] basis)<ref name="nces_sch" />
| yearbook = ''The Indicator''
| enrollment = 3,334 (2022–23)<ref name="nces_sch"/>
| colors = <!--Red, blue, white-->
| conference = ]
| newspaper = ]
| yearbook = The Indicator
| nickname = Stuy
| schoolnumber = M475
| ceeb = 334070<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.suny.edu/counselor/search_highschool/hsadmin_searchaction.cfm?hsid=21589 |title = High School Directory |access-date=July 27, 2014}}</ref>
| district = ]
| ranking = 26<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/stuyvesant-high-school-13092|title=Stuyvesant High School in New York, NY – US News Best High Schools|access-date=June 4, 2024|archive-date=April 4, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404131256/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/stuyvesant-high-school-13092|url-status=live}}</ref>
| ratio = 20.46<ref name="nces_sch"/>
| SAT = 1470/1600
| ACT = 33/36<ref name="k12.niche.com">{{cite web|url=https://k12.niche.com/stuyvesant-high-school-new-york-city-ny/educational-outcomes/|title=Stuyvesant High School|date=June 10, 2015|work=K-12 School Rankings and· Reviews at Niche.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324180814/https://k12.niche.com/stuyvesant-high-school-new-york-city-ny/educational-outcomes/|archive-date=March 24, 2015}}</ref>
| nobel_laureates = 4<ref name=AClassApart/>
| mascot = Pegleg Pete<ref>{{cite journal | title=The Face of Stuyvesant, Divided? | volume=106 | issue=8 | journal=] | via=] | date=January 14, 2016 | url=https://issuu.com/stuyspectator/docs/the_spectator_issue_8__1_/4 | access-date=December 23, 2017 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230195926/https://issuu.com/stuyspectator/docs/the_spectator_issue_8__1_/4 | archive-date=December 30, 2017 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>
| team_name = Peglegs
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'''Stuyvesant High School''', commonly known as '''Stuy''', is a ] ] that specializes in ] and ]. The school opened in 1904 on ]'s East Side and moved to a new building in ] in 1992. The school is noted for its strong academic programs and for having produced many ] (including four ]). A large percentage of its graduates go on to attend such prestigious universities as ], ], ] and the ] insititutions.
Together with ] and ], Stuyvesant is one of the three original ]. These schools are operated by the ] and are open, with no ] fee, to all residents of New York City (only). Admission is by ] only. There has been a long-standing friendly rivalry between Stuyvesant and Bronx Science over the ], with both schools claiming dominance at various times.


'''Stuyvesant High School''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|aɪ|v|ə|s|ən|t}} {{respell|STY|və|sənt}})<ref name="Dictionary.com 2014">{{cite web | title=the definition of Stuyvesant | website=Dictionary.com | date=June 27, 2014 | url=http://www.dictionary.com/browse/stuyvesant | access-date=December 18, 2017 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160413102906/http://www.dictionary.com/browse/stuyvesant | archive-date=April 13, 2016 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> is a co-ed, ], college-preparatory, ] in ], New York City, United States. The school, commonly referred to among its students, faculty and alumni as "'''Stuy"''' ({{IPAc-en|s|t|aɪ}} {{respell|STY}}),<ref name="Dictionary.com 2014" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Van der Sijs |first=Nicoline |url=https://archive.org/details/cookiescoleslaws00sijs |title=Cookies, Coleslaw, and Stoops: The Influence of Dutch on the North American Languages |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-90-8964-124-3 |location=Amsterdam |page= |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Caperton |first1=Gaston |author1-link=Gaston Caperton |title=The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools |last2=Whitmire |first2=Richard |publisher=College Board |year=2012 |isbn=978-0-87447-999-7 |location=New York |page=152}}</ref> specializes in developing talent in math, science and technology. Operated by the ], specialized schools offer ]-free, advanced classes to New York City high school students.
The school was boys-only for 65 years. It became ]al in 1969 and upon the construction of its Battery Park City building, the facilities for girls became on par with those for boys.


Stuyvesant High School was established in 1904 initially as an all-boys school in the ] of ]. Starting in 1934, admission for all applicants was contingent on passing an entrance examination. In 1969, after 65 years with an all-male student body, the high school started permanently accepting female students. In 1992, Stuyvesant High School moved to its current location at ] to accommodate more students. The old campus houses several smaller high schools and charter schools.
Classes were in session at Stuyvesant when a terrorist attack destroyed the nearby ] towers, and the school building served as a command post for several weeks afterwards. The school was temporarily relocated and shared facilities with Brooklyn Tech until it could return to its own building. The special issue of the ''The Spectator'' on the tragedy was reprinted in '']''.


Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing the ], required for the New York City Public Schools system. Every March, approximately 800 to 850 applicants with the highest SHSAT scores are accepted, out of about 30,000 students who apply to Stuyvesant.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://insideschools.org/school/02M475|title=Stuyvesant High School – District 2 – InsideSchools|website=insideschools.org|access-date=June 19, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630144010/http://insideschools.org/school/02M475|archive-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref>
==History==
] art featuring the 15<sup>th</sup> Street Stuyvesant building]]
Stuyvesant High School is named after ], the last ] governor of ] before the ownership of the colony was transferred to ] in 1664.<ref>{{cite paper|title=(Former) Stuyvesant High School|publisher=Landmarks Preservation Commission|url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/LandMarkDesignation/Stuy%20Landmark%20Designation.pdf|date=]|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref>


Extracurricular activities at the school include a Math Team, Speech and Debate Team, a yearly theater competition and various student publications including a newspaper, a ], and literary magazines.<ref>{{cite book |last=Goldman |first=Victoria |year=2016 |title=The Manhattan Family Guide to Private Schools and Selective Public Schools |edition=7th |location=New York |publisher=Teachers College Press |page=471 |isbn=978-0-8077-5656-0}}</ref> Stuyvesant has educated four ].<ref name="AClassApart" /> ] include former ] ], physicists ] and ], economist ], mathematician ], chemist ], biologist ], ] actor ], comedian ], young adult fiction author ], and chess grandmaster ].
The school was established in 1904 as a ] school for boys, hosting 155 students and 12 teachers. In 1907, it moved from its original location at 225 East ] to a building designed by ] at 345 East 15th Street, where it remained for the following 85 years. Its reputation for excellence in math and science continued to grow, and enrollment was restricted based on previous scholastic achievement starting in 1919.<ref name="cfs_timeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/Timeline%20Annual.htm|title=Stuyvesant High School Timeline by Class Year|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant|accessdate=2006-06-04}}</ref>


==History==
The school went on a double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students. The practice allowed double use of classroom space, with some students attending in the morning and others in the afternoon and early evening. All students still studied a full set of courses. Double sessions would run until 1956.<ref name="cfs_timeline"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/segal73.htm|title=Interview with George Segal|publisher=] ]|first=Paul|last=Cummings|date=1973-11-26|accessdate=2006-06-04}}</ref>


=== Planning ===
In the 1930s, entrance examinations were implemented, making admission to the school even more competitive. During the 1950s, the building underwent a $2 million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries and cafeterias.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf|title=History of Stuyvesant High School|first=Eugene|last=Blaufarb|work=Stuyvesant High School Parent Handbook|publisher=Stuyvesant Parents Association|format=PDF|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref>
The then independent city of ]'s Superintendent of Schools, ], had first written in a report about the need to construct technical / scientific oriented secondary schools in Brooklyn and throughout ] state in 1887. This would follow other examples of specialized high schools such as the Baltimore Manual Training School, now the ].<ref name="Maxwell 1912">{{cite book | last=Maxwell | first=W.H. | title=A Quarter Century of Public School Development | publisher=American book Company | year=1912 | url=https://archive.org/details/aquartercentury02maxwgoog | access-date=December 17, 2017 }}{{rp|46}}</ref> The municipal architect and engineer ], who designed many of the city's public school buildings, had repeatedly mentioned the need for more basic mathematical and scientific preparation in New York's growing numbers of public secondary schools in the late 19th century.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|3}} The first such school in the city was ] in Brooklyn, which opened in 1893.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|4}} By 1899, now positioned as the newly-formed ]'s Superintendent of Public Schools, Maxwell was advocating for another specialized high school across the river in the newly established borough of ].<ref name="Maxwell 1912"/>{{rp|16}}


In January 1903 Maxwell and Snyder submitted a report to the ] in which they suggested the creation of a school in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite web | title=New School Buildings | work=The New York Times | date=January 1, 1903 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/01/01/101963395.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-date=September 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924065314/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/01/01/101963395.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> The Board of Education approved the plans in April 1904. They suggested that the school occupy a plot on East 15th Street, west of First Avenue. However, that plot did not yet contain a school building, and so the new school was initially housed within Public School #47's former building at 225 East ].<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|4}} The Board of Education also wrote that the new school would be "designated as the Stuyvesant High School, as being reminiscent of the locality."<ref name=nyclpc/> ], ], and later ] (which was built subsequently in 1947) are all located near the proposed 15th Street school building. All of these locations were named after ] (1610–1672),<ref>{{cite web | last=Schulz | first=Dana | title=Peter Stuyvesant's NYC: From the Bouwerie Farm to That Famous Pear Tree | website=6sqft | date=November 21, 2014 | url=https://www.6sqft.com/peter-stuyvesants-nyc-from-the-bouwerie-farm-to-that-famous-pear-tree/ | access-date=December 17, 2017 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223215728/https://www.6sqft.com/peter-stuyvesants-nyc-from-the-bouwerie-farm-to-that-famous-pear-tree/ | archive-date=December 23, 2017 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> the last ] Director (governor) of ] (and its major port town of ]), 1647–1665, and owner of the area's ].<ref name=nyt199209/>{{rp|4}} The appellation of a specific historical name was selected to avoid confusion with Brooklyn's earlier Manual Training High School.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|8}}
In 1957, a team of 50 students began construction of a ], a project sponsored by the physics department. By 1962, a low-power test of the device succeeded. Matt Deming '62 remembered that a later attempt at full-power operation "tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area".<ref name="OSB_cyclotron">{{cite web|url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#cyclotron|title=The Cyclotron Committee|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref><ref name="stuy_timeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html|title=Stuyvesant 100 Year Timeline|accessdate=2006-06-27|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20041014033551/www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html|archivedate=2004-10-14}}</ref> According to Abraham Baumel, Stuyvesant principal from 1983 to 1994, "... I can tell you with certainty that the cyclotron never worked at Stuyvesant any more than it did for ], and he was awarded a Nobel Prize for his invention of the cyclotron. The Russians never succeeded in getting one to work, either".<ref name="OSB_cyclotron"/>
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In 1969, 14 girls were admitted to Stuyvesant and 12 enrolled at the start of September, marking the school's first co-educational year. Now, approximately 43% of students are female.<ref name="NYCDOE2003">{{cite web|url=http://www.nycenet.edu/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf|title=2002-2003 Annual Report, Stuyvesant High School|format=PDF|author=Manhattan Superintendancy|publisher=New York City Public Schools|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref>


=== Opening and boys' school ===
In 1972, Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant and ] were chosen by the New York State Legislature as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for a uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science and Stuyvesant High School. The exam, named the ] (SHSAT), tested students in math and verbal abilities. Admission to LaGuardia High School was by audition rather than examination, in keeping with its artistic mission.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_how_gothams_elite.html|title=How Gotham’s Elite High Schools Escaped the Leveller’s Ax|first=Heather|last=Mac Donald|date=Spring 1999|publisher=City Journal|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref>
Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan's first specialized high school.<ref name="nyclpc">{{cite report |title=(Former) Stuyvesant High School |publisher=] |url=https://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/1958.pdf |date=May 20, 1997 |access-date=May 28, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080524023413/http://home2.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/stuyvesanths.pdf |archive-date=May 24, 2008 }}</ref>{{rp|5}} At the time of its opening, the school consisted of 155 students and 12 teachers.<ref name="nyt199209" />


At first, the school provided a core curriculum of "English, Latin, modern languages, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, music," as well as a physical education program and a more specialized track of "woodworking, metalworking, mechanical drawing, freehand drawing."<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|5}} However, in June 1908, Maxwell announced that the school's core curriculum would be separated for the rest, and that a discrete trade school would operate in the Stuyvesant building during the evening.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|5}}<ref>{{cite web | title=President Seelye Resigns – Head of Smith College Is 70 Years Old and Wishes to Retire. | work=The New York Times | date=June 18, 1908 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/06/18/104733875.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-date=March 27, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327041055/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/06/18/104733875.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> Thereafter, Stuyvesant became renowned for excellence in math and science. In 1909, eighty percent of the school's alumni went to college, compared to other schools, which only sent 25% to 50% of their graduates to college.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|first=Robert W.|last=Selvidge|title=A Study of Some Manual Training High Schools|journal=Manual Training Magazine|date=June 1909}}</ref>
In 1992, a new, waterfront building was constructed to house the high school (see ]).


By 1919 officials started restricting admission based on academic achievement.<ref name="cfs_timeline">{{cite web|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/history/timeline.html |title=Stuyvesant High School Timeline by Class Year |publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant |date=March 27, 2007 |access-date=June 4, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221154110/http://www.ourstrongband.org/history/timeline.html |archive-date=February 21, 2009 }}</ref> Stuyvesant implemented a double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students: some students would attend in the morning, while others would take classes in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. These double sessions ran until Spring 1957.<ref name="cfs_timeline"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-george-segal-12613 |title=Interview with George Segal |first=Paul |last=Cummings |publisher=] ] |date=November 26, 1973 |access-date=June 4, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525204448/http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-george-segal-12613 |archive-date=May 25, 2011 }}</ref> The school implemented a system of entrance examinations in 1934.<ref name="blaufarb1"/> The examination program, developed with the assistance of ], was expanded in 1938 to include the newly founded ].<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|5}}<ref name="blaufarb1">{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf |title=History of Stuyvesant High School |first=Eugene |last=Blaufarb |work=Stuyvesant High School Parent Handbook |publisher=Stuyvesant Parents Association |year=2005 |access-date=May 28, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623044426/http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf |archive-date=June 23, 2006 }}</ref>
Stuyvesant is a quarter-mile (approx. 400 metres) or about a 5-minute walk from ] of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed on ]. The school was evacuated during the ordeal and the students were temporarily relocated to Brooklyn Tech starting ] while the Stuyvesant building was used as one of several bases of operations by rescue and recovery workers. This caused serious congestion at Brooklyn Tech and required the students to go to school in two shifts. Normal classes resumed three weeks later on ].
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Because of Stuyvesant's close proximity to ], some were initially concerned about the possibility of ] exposure to Stuyvesant. Indeed, the Stuyvesant High School Parents' Association has contested that the ]'s (EPA) initial suggestion that the area was safe is not accurate.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuypa.org/Environment/OIG%20Summary%2009-15-03.doc|title=Parents' Association briefing about EPA report|first=Dave|last=Newman|date=]|format=MS-Word|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> However, the EPA indicated at that time that Stuyvesant was safe from asbestos, and had conducted a thorough cleaning of the Stuyvesant building. Some problems have been reported, including respiratory problems of former teacher Mark Bodenheimer, who accepted a transfer to The Bronx High School of Science after having difficulty continuing his work at Stuyvesant. Other isolated cases similar to Bodenheimer's have been reported such as Stuyvesant's 2002 Class President Amit Friedlander, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, who received local press coverage in September 2006 after he was diagnosed with cancer.<ref name="SUN_2006-10-02">{{cite news|url=http://www.nysun.com/article/40726|title=Stuyvesant Grads Say They Returned Too Soon After 9/11|first=Eric|last=Krangle|publisher=]|date=]|accessdate=2006-10-04}}</ref> Nonetheless, there is no definite evidence that such cases relate to Stuyvesant. Stuyvesant students did spend a full year in the building before the theater and air systems were cleaned, however, and a group of Stuyvesant alumni is currently lobbying for health insurance as a result.<ref name="SUN_2006-10-02"/>


=== Co-educational school ===
Alumni who were killed during the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center include Daniel D. Bergstein '80,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=519|title=Daniel D. Bergstein|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Alan Wayne Friedlander '67,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1113|title=Alan Wayne Friedlander|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Marina R. Gertsberg '93,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1173|title=Marina R. Gertsberg|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Aaron J. Horwitz '94,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1383|title=Aaron J. Horwitz|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> David S. Lee '82,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=3515|title=David S. Lee|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Arnold A. Lim '90,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1650|title=Arnold A. Lim|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Gregory D. Richards '88,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2275|title=Gregory D. Richards|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> ] '97<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2602|title=Maurita Tam|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> and Michael Warchola '68.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2747|title=Michael Warchola|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> ] '60 was on the ].
In 1967 ] filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education, alleging that she had been banned from taking Stuyvesant's entrance exam because of her gender.<ref>{{cite web | title=Girl Challenges Stuyvesant High's All-Boy Policy; She Seeks to Take Exam at School Thursday Bid to Advance in Grade Is Factor in Rejection | work=The New York Times | date=January 21, 1969 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/21/77320657.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-date=September 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924065315/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1969/01/21/77320657.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false | url-status=live }}</ref> The lawsuit was decided in the student's favor, and Stuyvesant was required to accept female students.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|6}} The first female students were accepted in September 1969, when Stuyvesant offered admission to 14 girls and enrolled 12 of them.<ref name=nyt199209/> The next year, 223 female students were accepted to Stuyvesant.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|6}} By 2015, young women represented 43% of the total student body.<ref name="NYCDOE2016">{{cite web |url=https://data.nysed.gov/enrollment.php?year=2016&instid=800000046741|title=2015–2016 Annual Report, Stuyvesant High School |author=Manhattan Superintendency |publisher=] |year=2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628195704/http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2007 |access-date=March 8, 2006}}</ref>


In 1972, the ] in the state capital of ] passed the Hecht–Calandra Act, which designated four city-wide selective specialized public high schools in New York City of: ], Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and the ] (now renamed ]) as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for a uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant High.<ref name="gotham1">{{cite magazine |url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_how_gothams_elite.html |title=How Gotham's Elite High Schools Escaped the Leveller's Ax |first=Heather |last=Mac Donald |magazine=] |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=68–79 |year=1999 |access-date=May 28, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614135346/http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_how_gothams_elite.html |archive-date=June 14, 2006 }}</ref> The exam, named the ] (SHSAT), tested the mathematical and verbal abilities of students who were applying to any of the specialized high schools. The only exception was for applicants to the music and arts program at LaGuardia High School, who were accepted by audition rather than examination.<ref name="gotham1"/>
On ] ], the school paper, ''The Spectator'', included a special full-color 9/11 insert containing student photos, reflections and stories. The insert was reprinted in the ] ] issue of '']''.
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In the months after 9/11, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant, a 1993 alumna, and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after 9/11 and turn them into a series of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as ''With Their Eyes: September 11th – The View from a High School at Ground Zero'' (ISBN 0-06-051718-2). Alexander Epstein of ''The Stuyvesant Standard'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuystandard.org|title=The Stuyvesant Standard|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> an independent newspaper serving the school's community, contributed the section ''Out of the Blue'' to the book ''At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories'' (ISBN 1-56025-427-0).


==== September 11 attacks (World Trade Center, 2001) ====
During the 2003-2004 school year, Stuyvesant celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a full year of activities. Events included a parade from the 15<sup>th</sup> Street building to the Chambers Street one; a meeting of the ]; an all-class reunion; and visits and speeches from notable alumni. ] ] spoke at the graduation of Stuyvesant's class of 2004.
The current school building in ] of lower Manhattan since 1992, is about a half-mile / {{convert|0.5|mi|km|1}} away from ] of the ], which was destroyed in the ]. The school was evacuated during the attack. Although the smoke cloud from the World Trade Center temporarily covered the building, there was no structural damage, and there were no reports of physical injuries. Less than an hour after the collapse of the second World Trade Center tower, concern over a bomb threat at the school prompted an evacuation of the surrounding area, as reported live on the '']'' show.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalzbIX5_Ag |title=Pat Dawson on 9/11 |last=Dawson |first=Pat |date=September 11, 2001 |work=] |publisher=] |access-date=December 16, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417162141/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalzbIX5_Ag |archive-date=April 17, 2016 }}</ref> When classes resumed on September 21, 2001,<ref>
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</ref> students were moved to Brooklyn Technical High School while the Stuyvesant building served as a base of operations for rescue and recovery workers. This caused serious congestion at Brooklyn Tech, and required the students to attend in two shifts, with the Stuyvesant students attending the evening shift.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/us/after-the-attacks-the-schools-stuyvesant-high-students-to-attend-brooklyn-tech.html|title=After the Attacks: The Schools – Stuyvesant High Students To Attend Brooklyn Tech|last=Goodnough|first=Abby|date=September 15, 2001|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 17, 2017|issn=0362-4331|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222105956/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/15/us/after-the-attacks-the-schools-stuyvesant-high-students-to-attend-brooklyn-tech.html|archive-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref> Normal classes resumed nearly a month after the attack, on October 9.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/stuyvesant-high-school-gr_n_954112.html|title=Stuyvesant High School Grads Sick 10 Years After 9/11|last=Green|first=Jonah|date=September 8, 2011|work=Huffington Post|access-date=December 17, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821035152/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/08/stuyvesant-high-school-gr_n_954112.html|archive-date=August 21, 2015}}</ref>


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==Enrollment==
Nine alumni were killed in the World Trade Center attack.<ref>*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=519 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181229/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=519 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Daniel D. Bergstein |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of about 3,200 and is open to residents of New York City entering either ] or ]. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the ] (SHSAT).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nycenet.edu/OurSchools/HSDirectory/SpecializedHighSchoolsStudentHandbook.htm|title=NYC DoE Specialized High Schools Student Handbook|year=2005|publisher=New York City Dept. of Education|accessdate=2006-03-25}}</ref> The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include all of New York's specialized high schools except LaGuardia High School, where entry is by audition rather than examination. Since its relocation to its ] campus, the test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant has been higher than that needed for admission to the other schools using the test.<ref name="NYCDOE_round">{{cite web|url=http://www.nycenet.edu/Offices/StudentEnroll/HSAdmissions/hsProcess/Specialadm/special.htm|title=Specialized Admissions Round|publisher=New York City Dept. of Education|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Admission is currently based on an individual's score on the examination and his or her pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Each year, about 22,000 of New York City's 90,000 ] sit for the test. Only about 800 applicants are offered admission to Stuyvesant. Ninth and rising tenth graders are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, though far fewer students are admitted this way.
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1113 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181320/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1113 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Alan Wayne Friedlander |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1173 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208194259/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1173 |archive-date=February 8, 2008 |title=Marina R. Gertsberg |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1383 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181206/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1383 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Aaron J. Horwitz |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=3515 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181451/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=3515 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=David S. Lee |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1650 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181250/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1650 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Arnold A. Lim |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2275 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181432/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2275 |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |title=Gregory D. Richards |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2602 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071117060900/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2602 |archive-date=November 17, 2007 |title=Maurita Tam |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}
*{{cite web |url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2747 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071018210917/http://september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2747 |archive-date=October 18, 2007 |title=Michael Warchola |publisher=September 11, 2001, Victims |access-date=March 8, 2006}}</ref> On October 2, 2001, the school newspaper, ''The Spectator'', added a 24-page section with student photos, reflections and stories. On November 20, 2001, the magazine was distributed for free to the greater metropolitan area, enclosed within 830,000 copies of ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://events.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/terrorism/stuy.pdf |title=September 11th 2001 Special Edition |work=The Spectator |via=] |date=Fall 2001 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204123945/http://events.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/terrorism/stuy.pdf |archive-date=December 4, 2013 }}</ref> In the months after the attacks, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after September 11, 2001, and complile them into a collection of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as ''With Their Eyes: September 11—The View from a High School at Ground Zero''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/withtheireyes00anni|url-access=registration|title=with their eyes: September 11th: The View from a High School at Ground Zero|last=Thoms|first=Annie|date=August 20, 2002|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=9780060517182}}</ref>


==== Later history ====
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During the 2003–2004 school year, Stuyvesant celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a full year of activities. Events included a procession from the 15th Street building to the Chambers Street one, a meeting of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, an all-class reunion, and visits and speeches from notable alumni.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=November 2003|title=Stuyvesant HS Celebrates 100 Years of Excellence|url=http://citycollegefund.org/pdf/Stuyvesant/Nov_2003.pdf|journal=Stuyvesant-CCNY Scholarship News|volume=9|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812095707/http://citycollegefund.org/pdf/Stuyvesant/Nov_2003.pdf|archive-date=August 12, 2016}}</ref>


In the 21st century, keynote graduation speakers have included ] ] (2001),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://stuyspectator.com/2009/02/09/eric-holder-stuy-grad-basketball-player-and-the-new-attorney-general/ |title=Eric Holder: Stuy Grad, Basketball Player and the New Attorney General |newspaper=] |first=Andrew |last=Chow |date=February 9, 2009 |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224194912/http://stuyspectator.com/2009/02/09/eric-holder-stuy-grad-basketball-player-and-the-new-attorney-general/ |archive-date=December 24, 2010 }}</ref> ] ] (2004),<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9380.doc.htm |title=Stuyvesant High School's 'Multicultural Tapestry' Eloquest Response to Terrorist Message of Hatred, Says Secretary-General in Graduation Address |date=June 23, 2004 |publisher=United Nations |access-date=September 8, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908052027/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sgsm9380.doc.htm |archive-date=September 8, 2012 }}</ref> comedian ] (2006),<ref>{{cite book |title=The Best American Nonrequired Reading |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780618570515 |url-access=registration |year=2007 |first=Dave |last=Eggers |isbn=978-0618902811}}</ref> actor ] (2016), and astrophysicist ] (2018).
According to Article 12 of New York education law, "Admissions to the Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and Brooklyn Technical High School shall be solely and exclusively by taking a competitive, objective, and scholastic achievement examination, which shall be open to each and every child in the city of New York".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions/volume35/d13477.htm|title=Appeal of CARY MARK GOODMAN, on behalf of his son, MOSAH FERNANDEZ GOODMAN, from action of the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York regarding a specialized high school test|date=]|author=Corporation Counsel|publisher=New York City Dept. of Education|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> The current admission policy is available from the NYC Department of Education.<ref name="NYCDOE_round"/> According to the Department of Education, Stuyvesant accepts students solely based on their performance on the SHSAT, although former Mayor ] and community activist group ] have argued that the exam may be biased against ] and ].<ref name="ACORN_SA2RRR">{{cite web|url=http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=540|title="Secret Apartheid II: Race, Regents, and Resources"|publisher=ACORN|accessdate=2006-05-06}}</ref>
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In 2020, Stuyvesant teachers wrote an op-ed in '']'', advocating to shut the city's public school system in response to the ].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Daves|first=Samantha|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/contributors/close-new-york-schoos.html|title=Opinion {{!}} We Are New York Teachers. Close the Schools.|date=March 14, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 16, 2020|last2=Dwyer|first2=Maura|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|last3=Thoms|first3=Annie}}</ref> Shortly after, the entire school system was temporarily closed.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shapiro|first=Eliza|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/nyregion/coronavirus-schools-close-nyc.html|title=Coronavirus in N.Y.: New York City Public Schools to Close|date=March 15, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 15, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first=Paul|last=Berger|first2=Katie|last2=Honan|first3=Lee|last3=Hawkins|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-city-schools-to-close-over-coronavirus-11584307280|title=New York City Schools to Close Over Coronavirus|date=March 15, 2020|work=]|access-date=March 16, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
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==Buildings==
Stuyvesant has contributed to the education of several ] laureates, winners of the ] and the ], and a host of other accomplished alumni. It consistently leads the nation in the number of ] awarded and regularly trades off the leading position in the number of Intel Science Talent Search Semi-Finalists and Finalists with Bronx Science.<ref>{{cite press release|url=http://www.sciserv.org/sts/press/20010117.asp|title=Intel Science Talent Search Awards $600,000 to 300 Student Semifinalists and 166 Schools|accessdate=2006-07-09|date=]|publisher=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/doc9.htm|title=Nurturing Science's Young Elite: Westinghouse Talent Search|first=Scott|last=Huler|publisher=]|date=]|accessdate=2006-07-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=]|title=At Stuyvesant, Kudos for Scientific Creativity in the Shadow of Ruin|date=]|first=Yilu|last=Zhao}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=]|title=Stuyvesant Defeats Inertia To Lead Intel Rivals Again|date=]|first=Jennifer|last=Medina}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=]|title=Stuyvesant Again Leads in Science Contest|date=]|first=Kimetris|last=Baltrip}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=]|title=New York Students Dominate Intel Science Contest. Again.|first=Lili|last=Koppel|date=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=]|title=New York Tops Other States In Science Award Semifinals|first=Caroline|last=Palmer|date=]}}</ref>
===15th Street building===
] black and white art featuring the 15th Street old Stuyvesant High School building, of 1905–1907, now known since 1992 as the Old Stuyvesant Campus housing several smaller secondary and charter schools |362x362px]]
In August 1904, the Board of Education authorized municipal architect and engineer Snyder to design a new facility for Stuyvesant High School at 15th Street.<ref>{{cite web | title=Schools Under New Bridges | work=The New York Times | date=August 18, 1904 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/08/18/117946649.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-date=March 27, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327040358/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1904/08/18/117946649.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> The new high school structure was designed in the then popular ] and ] for its grand imposing style. It would be shaped like the letter "H", with two interior ]s; the shape also allowed natural light to illuminate more inside windows and parts of the building.<ref name=nyclpc/>{{rp|3}} The cornerstone for the new building was laid in September 1905.<ref name=nyt19050922>{{cite web | title=Manual Training School – Cornerstone Laid for New Building in East Fifteenth Street. | work=The New York Times | date=September 22, 1905 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/09/22/101419629.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-date=March 27, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327041937/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/09/22/101419629.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref> Approximately $1.5&nbsp;million was spent on constructing the school, including $600,000 for the monumental stone exterior alone.<ref name=nyt19071027/> It was considered one of the most expensive public buildings or school structures ever built up to that time in New York, and considered a point of civic pride in the early 20th century. In 1907, the Stuyvesant High School moved to the new building on 15th Street.<ref name=nyt199209/> The new building had a capacity of 2,600 students, more than double that of the existing previous temporary school building of the last few years at 23rd Street.<ref name=nyt19050922/> It contained 25 classrooms devoted to skilled industrial trades such as ], as well as 53 regular classrooms and a 1,600-seat auditorium.<ref name=nyt19071027>{{cite web | title=A Million and a Half to Teach Boys Trades – Stuyvesant High School Marks a Unique Phase in the Development of Industrial Education. What Is Done in New England. Course in Industrial Training. How Various Trades Are Studied. Developing Resources of Students. | work=The New York Times | date=October 27, 1907 | url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/10/27/104711602.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-date=March 27, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327041733/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/10/27/104711602.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>
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A half-century later, uring the 1950s, the building underwent a $2&nbsp;million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries, and cafeterias.<ref name="blaufarb1"/>


Unfortunately through the 1970s and 1980s, when New York City municipal government and especially the public schools system, in general, were marked by violence, vandalism / graffiti and low academic grades among their students, Stuyvesant High still had an excellent academic reputation for being a top-notch public high school, and was still graduating well-prepared and accomplished alumni, (judging from their track record now four decades later). However, the 1905–1907 school building was deteriorating due to overuse and lack of proper maintenance. A ''] daily newspaper expose'' report stated that the building had "held out into old age with minimal maintenance and benign neglect until its peeling paint, creaking floorboards and antiquated laboratories became an embarrassment." The five-story building could not cater adequately to the several thousand students, leading the New York City Board of Education to make plans to move the school to a new building in ], near ]'s ].<ref name=nyt199209/> The 15th Street building remains in use over 32 years later as the "Old Stuyvesant Campus," housing three smaller schools: the Institute for Collaborative Education,<ref>{{cite web | title=Institute for Collaborative Education | publisher=New York City Department of Education | url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M407 | access-date=March 17, 2020 | archive-date=August 7, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807211253/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M407 | url-status=live }}</ref> the ],<ref>{{cite web | title=High School for Health Professions and Human Services | publisher=New York City Department of Education | url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M420 | access-date=March 17, 2020 | archive-date=August 7, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807174050/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M420 | url-status=live }}</ref> and lower grades of PS&nbsp;226.<ref>{{cite web | title=P.S. M226 | publisher=New York City Department of Education | url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M226 | access-date=March 17, 2020 | archive-date=August 7, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807185847/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M226 | url-status=live }}</ref>
Stuyvesant, along with other similar schools, has regularly been excluded from Newsweek's annual list of the Top 100 Public High Schools. The ], ], issue states the reason as being, "because so many of their students score well above average on the SAT and ACT."<ref>{{cite news|publisher=]|title=What Makes a High School Great?|date=]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7760504/site/newsweek/|title=America's Best High Schools FAQ|publisher=], ]|date=]|first=Jay|last=Matthews|accessdate=2006-08-02}}</ref>


===Current building===
Stuyvesant sends nearly all its students off to four year universities, and around 15 percent go on to the ]. Stuyvesant graduates have an average ] score of about 1410 (690 verbal, 724 math).<ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> Recently, there were two students who achieved perfect scores on their SAT I and SAT II tests, an unusual accomplishment. Stuyvesant also was the high school with the highest number of ] exams taken, and also the highest number of students reaching the mastery level.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/education/26advanced.html|title=New York Tops Advanced Placement Tests|publisher=]|date=]|first=Susan|last=Saulny|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref>
In the 83rd year of its history of 1987, the 105th ], ] (1924–2013, served 1978–1989), and 52nd ] State ] (1932–2015, served 1983–1994), jointly announced the coming construction project of a third new Stuyvesant High School building to be situated in ] of lower ]. The ] donated {{Convert|1.5|acre|ha}} of land for the new building.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/02/nyregion/a-new-school-for-stuyvesant-to-be-speeded.html|title=A New School For Stuyvesant To Be Speeded|last=Perlez|first=Jane|date=October 2, 1987|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 17, 2017|issn=0362-4331|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223102852/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/02/nyregion/a-new-school-for-stuyvesant-to-be-speeded.html|archive-date=December 23, 2017}}</ref> The authority was not required to hire the lowest bidder, which meant that the construction process could be accelerated in return for a higher cost.<ref name=":2" /> The building was designed by the architectural firms of ] and ].<ref>
{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224000212/http://schools.nyc.gov/community/facilities/PublicArt/Architecture/Recent/Mnemonics.htm |date=February 24, 2017 }} . Retrieved June 13, 2017.
</ref> The structure's main architect, ] of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, had also designed much of the surrounding development of Battery Park City.<ref name=":2" />


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By the 1980s, the East 15th Street building was no longer a quality educational facility by modern standards, and the number of students had also increased to several thousand and could not be accommodated by the five-story building. The New York City Board of Education secured an agreement with the Battery Park City Authority for a new building, and construction began in 1989. The new ten-floor building, located near lower Manhattan's ], was constructed at a cost of about $148 million, and included 65 classrooms with about 450 computers on 13 networks, 7 pairs of ]s, various indoor sporting facilities including two ] and a pool built to ] standards, a theater with acoustics and lighting to accommodate music and drama productions, two lecture halls with movable partitions, a skylit ] overlooking the ], 12 science laboratories (including a ] lab and an ] lab) and special shops for instruction in ], ], ], ]s, ], ]ics and energy studies. One room in the Stuyvesant building, called the "Museum Room", was built as a replica of a room in the 15<sup>th</sup> Street Stuyvesant building as a request by students, with desks, chairs, a table and blackboard brought from there, as well as paint and flooring in its style. The room was dedicated to teacher Dr. A. Edward Stefanacci, who died in 1993. The school's library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDB1531F935A35755C0A965958260|title=ARCHITECTURE VIEW On the Hudson, Launching Minds Instead of Ships|first=Herbert|last=Muschamp|date=]|publisher=]|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref>
| alt1 = View of Stuyvesant High School's facade from about a quarter-mile away. Most of the facade is orange brick, but the three-story entranceway at the center of the image is made of metal.
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| alt2 = View of the Tribeca Bridge, a pedestrian bridge, from the southeast corner of Chambers and West Streets. The bridge connects the east side of West Street to Stuyvesant High School on the street's west side.
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| caption3 = Students entering Stuyvesant High School using the Tribeca Bridge, soon after its opening
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Stuyvesant's principal at the time, Abraham Baumel, visited the country's most advanced laboratories to gather ideas about what to include in the new Stuyvesant building's 12 laboratory rooms. The new 10-story building also included banks of escalators, glass-walled studios on the roof, and a shorter four-story northern wing with a swimming pool, five gymnasiums, and an auditorium.<ref name=":2" /> Construction began in 1989. When it finally opened five years later in 1992, the building was New York City's first new high school building in ten years. The new downtown Stuyvesant Campus cost $150&nbsp;million, making it the most expensive high school building ever built in the city at the time.<ref name="nyt199209">{{cite web | first1=Robert D. | last1=McFadden | first2=Eben | last2=Shapiro | title=Finally, a Facade to Fit Stuyvesant; A High School of High Achievers Gets a High-Priced Home | website=The New York Times | date=September 8, 1992 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/08/nyregion/finally-facade-fit-stuyvesant-high-school-high-achievers-gets-high-priced-home.html | access-date=August 24, 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150526053208/http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/08/nyregion/finally-facade-fit-stuyvesant-high-school-high-achievers-gets-high-priced-home.html | archive-date=May 26, 2015 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> The S.H.S. Library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/arts/architecture-view-on-the-hudson-launching-minds-instead-of-ships.html |title=Architecture View; On the Hudson, Launching Minds Instead of Ships |first=Herbert |last=Muschamp |date=June 6, 1993 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 28, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210061622/http://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/06/arts/architecture-view-on-the-hudson-launching-minds-instead-of-ships.html |archive-date=December 10, 2014 }}</ref>
The New York City Department of Education reports that public per student spending at Stuyvesant is slightly lower than the city average.<ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> However, Stuyvesant also receives some private contributions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv|title=Stuyvesant promotional video|format=video (WMV)|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Shortly after the new building was completed, the $10 million TriBeCa Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street.


Shortly after the third S.H.S. building was completed, the $10 million ] was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street. The building was designed to be fully compliant with the ] (A.D.A.) and is listed as such by the New York City Department of Education. As a result, the building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a school for students with multiple ] who are between the ages of 15 and 21.<ref name="accessibility">{{cite web|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41ACD8D4-DDD2-4F1A-AEF0-AF3A9D132EBB/0/ListofAccessibleSchools2007.pdf|title=Current List of Accessible Schools|date=June 2007|publisher=]|page=23|access-date=March 28, 2008|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410110452/http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41ACD8D4-DDD2-4F1A-AEF0-AF3A9D132EBB/0/ListofAccessibleSchools2007.pdf|archive-date=April 10, 2008}}</ref>
The new building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a school for older (aged 15-21) students with multiple ] and ]. Wheelchair-bound students can sometimes be seen throughout the building.


In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor was dedicated to Richard Rothenberg, the S.H.S. mathematics department chairman who had died from a sudden heart attack earlier that year. Sculptor Madeleine Segall-Marx was commissioned to create the Rothenberg Memorial in his honor. She created a mathematics wall entitled "Celebration", consisting of 50 wooden boxes—one for each year of his life—behind a glass wall, featuring mathematical concepts and reflections on Rothenberg.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culturenow.org/ManhattanArtNOW/index.php?page=display_entry&work_num=1652 |access-date=March 17, 2009 |title=Celebration (Richard Rothenberg Memorial), 1999 |work=CultureNOW |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725213529/http://www.culturenow.org/ManhattanArtNOW/index.php?page=display_entry&work_num=1652 |archive-date=July 25, 2011 }}</ref>
Glass boxes set into various places in the building's wall hold mementos from the year of each graduating class. Items displayed include water from most large rivers, mud from the ], a ] button, pieces of the 15<sup>th</sup> Street Stuyvesant building and of monuments around the world, and various chemical compounds. In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor (in which the math department office is located) was dedicated to Dr. Richard Rothenberg, the math department chairman before his death from a sudden heart attack in 1997. The Rothenberg memorial, commissioned in his honor, is a wall made up of 49 of these boxes, each featuring a concept in mathematics.


In 2006, ] of the class of 1960 made a gift worth $1&nbsp;million to found the Dr. Robert Ira Lewy M.D. Multimedia Center.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=] |volume=97 |issue=6 |date=November 2006 |page=2 |title=Dedication Ceremony for Lewy Multimedia Center Held}}</ref> and donated his personal library in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=] |first=Gavin |last=Huang |date=December 2, 2007 |title=Stuy Alum Donates Library Books}}</ref> In late 2010, the high school's library merged with the ] (NYPL) network in a four-year pilot program, in which all students of the school received a S.H.S. / N.Y.P.L. student library card so they could check books out of the school library or any other public library in the NYPL system.<ref>{{cite web |last=Whelan |first=Debra Lau |title=NYPL, NYC DOE Partner to Deliver Books Directly to Schools |url=http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/892774-312/nypl_nyc_doe_partner_to.html.csp |publisher=School Library Journal |access-date=December 31, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115185925/http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/slj/home/892774-312/nypl_nyc_doe_partner_to.html.csp |archive-date=November 15, 2011 }}</ref>
==Academics==
Stuyvesant students undergo a ] curriculum including four years of ], ], and a laboratory-based ], three years of ] (though most students opt to take four years) and foreign language, a semester each of introductory ], ], ], ], and two lab-based technology courses (although there are several exemptions by which students may be excused from technology education in their senior years).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf|title=Graduation Requirements|work=Stuyvesant High School Parent Handbook|publisher=Stuyvesant Parents Association|format=PDF|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/grad_reqs.html|title=Graduation Requirements|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref>


An unfortunate escalator collapse at Stuyvesant High School on September 13, 2018, 26 years after it was built / installed, injured 10 people, including 8 students.<ref>{{cite web | title=10 Injured in Escalator Accident at Stuyvesant High School | website=NBC New York | date=September 13, 2018 | url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Stuvyvesant-High-School-Escalator-Malfunction-493187881.html | access-date=September 14, 2018 | archive-date=September 14, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914121453/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Stuvyvesant-High-School-Escalator-Malfunction-493187881.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Offenhartz | first=Jake | title=Eight Students Injured In Escalator Collapse At Stuyvesant High School | website=Gothamist | date=September 13, 2018 | url=http://gothamist.com/2018/09/13/eight_students_injured_in_escalator.php | access-date=September 14, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914014214/http://gothamist.com/2018/09/13/eight_students_injured_in_escalator.php | archive-date=September 14, 2018 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> As a result, various escalators remained closed off to students for examination / study and renovation for the next few years.
Stuyvesant offers students a broad selection of elective courses. Some of the more unusual offerings include robotics, ], ], and the mathematics of ]s.<ref name="STUY_COURSES">{{cite web|url=http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html|title=Online Course Guide|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref> Most students take ], and the school offers math courses through ]s and ]. A year of ] used to be required; students learned how to draft by hand in its first semester and how to draft using a computer (CAD) in the second. Now, students take a one-semester class called Technology Graphic Communications (equivalent to the former year of drafting), and a semester of introductory computer science in order to introduce the mainly science-oriented students to computer programming early in their careers.


====''Mnemonics''====
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]During construction, the ], the Percent for Art Program of the City of New York, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York City Board of Education commissioned ''Mnemonics'', an artwork by public artists ]. Four hundred hollow glass blocks were dispersed randomly from the basement to the tenth floor of the new Stuyvesant High School building. Each block contains relics providing evidence of geographical, historical, natural, cultural, and social worlds, from antiquity to the present time.<ref name=":0" /> The blocks are set into the hallway walls and scattered throughout the building. Each block is inscribed with a brief description of its contents or context. The items displayed include pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building, fragments of monuments from around the world, memorabilia from each of the 88 years' history of the old building, a ] button, water from the ] and ] Rivers, fragments of the Mayan ]s, and various chemical compounds. Empty blocks were also installed to be filled with items chosen by each of the graduating classes up through 2080.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.stuy.edu/stuycube/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080123071112/http://www.stuy.edu/stuycube/%23 |archive-date=January 23, 2008 |title=Stuy<sup>3</sup>: A site about Mnemonics |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=January 26, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The S.H.S. installation later received the Award for Excellence in Design from the Art Commission of the City of New York.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewginzel.com/JONESGINZEL/PROJECTS/ALL/mnemonics/mnemonicstxt.html |title=Kristin Jones&nbsp;— Andrew Ginzel |publisher=Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel |date=April 20, 2007 |access-date=February 28, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122005/http://www.andrewginzel.com/JONESGINZEL/PROJECTS/ALL/mnemonics/mnemonicstxt.html |archive-date=April 2, 2015 }}</ref>


==Transportation==
A variety of Advanced Placement courses (31 are available at Stuyvesant<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuy100.org/about.html|title=Stuyvesant H.S. 100 Year Anniversary|accessdate=2006-06-27|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050305222753/http://www.stuy100.org/about.html|archivedate=2005-03-05}}</ref>) offer students the chance to earn college credits. A few students earn enough college credit to start college as sophomores. In 2004, Stuyvesant began complying with Department of Education regulations mandating that ] courses be weighted by a factor of 1.1 in ]. However, this caused widespread outcry among students, faculty, and teachers, and in 2005, Stuyvesant was granted special permission to revert the weight of AP courses back to 1. {{fact}}
The ]'s ], served by the {{NYCS trains|Broadway-Seventh south}}, is located nearby, as well as the ] served by the {{NYCS trains|Eighth south}}.<ref>{{NYCS const|map}}</ref> Additionally, ]'s {{NYC bus link|M9|M20}} and {{NYC bus link|M22}} routes stop near Stuyvesant.<ref>{{Cite NYC bus map|M}}</ref> Students residing a certain distance from the school are provided full-fare or half-fare student ]s for public transportation at the start of each term, based on how far away the student resides from the school.<ref>{{cite web |title=Student MetroCards |url=http://www.optnyc.org/schools/metrocards.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160924163301/http://www.optnyc.org/schools/metrocards.htm |archive-date=September 24, 2016 |access-date=September 12, 2016 |website=Office of Pupil Transportation}}</ref> As of 2024, students are provided with OMNY cards that offer four free rides throughout the day, as well as public transportation access over the weekend.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 25, 2024 |title=Eligible NYC students to receive OMNY cards valid 24 hours a day, year-round instead of MetroCards |url=https://abc7ny.com/post/mta-news-nyc-public-school-students-receive-new-omny-cards-metrocards/15094637/ |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en}}</ref>
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==Enrollment==
Computer science enthusiasts can take two additional computer programming courses after the completion of advanced placement computer science: systems level programming and ]. There is also a 2 year ] sequence which can earn students ] (CCNA) certification.
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of 2022<ref>{{cite web |title=Stuyvesant High School |url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/stuyvesant-high-school-13092#students_teachers_section |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-date=April 4, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404131256/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/stuyvesant-high-school-13092#students_teachers_section |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
! Race and ethnicity
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|71.7|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|18.3|%|2||background:gray}}
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|3.8|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|3.5|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|1.4|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|0.7|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| ]
|align=right| {{bartable|0.6|%|2||background:yellow}}
|-
! Sex
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| Male
|align=right| {{bartable|58|%|2||background:blue}}
|-
| Female
|align=right| {{bartable|42|%|2||background:red}}
|-
! Income
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
|-
| Economically disadvantaged
|align=right| {{bartable|48|%|2||background:black}}
|}


===Entrance examination===
Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings rival those of many colleges, including the basics like ] and ] as well as ], ], ], ], and ]. In 2000, ] and ] for native speakers were introduced in recognition of Stuyvesant's now majority ] population. Courses are also offered in ] and ], but these courses, along with Korean, may only be taken as electives.
Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of over 3,000 students<ref name="NYCDOEprofile">{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=1508 |title=High School Directory Entry: Stuyvesant High School |publisher=] |year=2007 |access-date=March 27, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080930150439/http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=1508 |archive-date=September 30, 2008 }}</ref> and is open to residents of New York City entering ] or ]. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the three-hour Specialized High Schools Admissions Test,<ref name=handbook/>{{rp|25}} which is administered annually. Approximately 28,000 students took the test in 2017.<ref name=handbook>{{cite web | title=Specialized High Schools Student Handbook | publisher=] | url=http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/39E5EC65-FA08-4A2A-91AD-9F7334670B3D/0/20172018SpecializedHighSchoolsStudentHandbookENGLISH.pdf | access-date=December 17, 2017 | date=2017 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101335/http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/39E5EC65-FA08-4A2A-91AD-9F7334670B3D/0/20172018SpecializedHighSchoolsStudentHandbookENGLISH.pdf | archive-date=December 24, 2017 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>{{rp|10}} The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include eight of New York's nine specialized high schools. The test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant has consistently been higher than that needed for admission to the other schools using the test.<ref name="NYCDOE_round">{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/StudentEnroll/HSAdmissions/hsProcess/Specialadm/special.htm |title=Specialized Admissions Round |publisher=] |year=2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070825003245/http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/StudentEnroll/HSAdmissions/hsProcess/Specialadm/special.htm |archive-date=August 25, 2007 |access-date=March 8, 2006}}</ref> Admission is currently based on an individual's score on the examination and the pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Ninth- and rising tenth–grade students are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, but far fewer students are admitted that way.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy.edu/about/admissions.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319122114/http://www.stuy.edu/about/admissions.php |archive-date=March 19, 2008 |title=Admissions |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=April 29, 2008}}</ref> The test covers math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension) skills. Former Mayor ] and community activist group ] (ACORN) have argued that the exam may be biased against ] and ],<ref name="ACORN_SA2RRR">{{cite web |url=http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=540 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070714102424/http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=540 |archive-date=July 14, 2007 |title=Secret Apartheid II: Race, Regents, and Resources |publisher=] |year=1997 |access-date=May 6, 2006}}</ref> while attempts to eliminate the exam have been criticized as discriminatory against Asian Americans.<ref name="nyt"/>
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===Demographics and SHSAT controversy===
Stuyvesant's ] and Geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology (a course sequence comprised of a molecular science class in the Fall and a molecular genetics class in the Spring), ], ], medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, ] and ], ], ] techniques, medical human ], ], the molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and ]. The Chemistry and Physics department offers ], ], astronomy, ] mechanics, and ].<ref name="STUY_COURSES"/>
For most of the 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant High was not only ] (1904–1969), but also heavily ]. A significant influx of ] students began in the 1970s; by 2019, 74% of the Stuyvesant students in attendance were Asian-American.<ref name="nyt" /> In the 2013 academic year, the student body was 72.43% Asian, 21.44% ], 1.03% African American, 2.34% ], and 3% unknown/other.<ref name="SCHOOLPORTALSTATS">{{cite web |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M475 |title=Stuyvesant High School |publisher=] |year=2020 |access-date=November 25, 2020 |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321011100/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M475 |url-status=live }}</ref> The paucity of Black and Hispanic students at Stuyvesant High has often been an issue for some city administrators. In 1971, then 103rd New York City Mayor ] (1921–2000, served 1966–1973), argued that the test was culturally biased against black and Hispanic students and sought to implement an ] program.<ref name="gotham1" /> However, protests by parents forced the plan to be scrapped and led to the passage of the Hecht-Calandra Act, in the New York State Legislature which preserved admissions by examination only.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5392-the-history-of-new-york-citys-special-high-schools-timeline |title=The History of New York City's Special High Schools |first=Katrina |last=Shakarian |date=October 23, 2014 |publisher=Gotham Gazette |access-date=August 22, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023334/http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5392-the-history-of-new-york-citys-special-high-schools-timeline |archive-date=September 24, 2015 }}</ref> A small number of students judged to be economically disadvantaged and who came within a few points of the cut-off score were given an extra chance to pass the test.<ref name="Stern2003">{{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3347501.html |title=Façade of Excellence |first=Sol |last=Stern |publisher=] |year=2003 |access-date=March 8, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061220120928/http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3347501.html |archive-date=December 20, 2006}}</ref>


Community activist group ] published two reports in 1996, titled ''Secret Apartheid'' and ''Secret Apartheid II''. In these reports, ACORN called the SHSAT "permanently suspect" and described it as a "product of an ]," saying that black and Hispanic students did not have access to proper test preparation materials.<ref name="ACORN_SA2RRR"/> Along with then New York Schools Chancellor ] (born 1950, N.Y.C. public schools chancellor, 1995–1999), they began an initiative for more diversity in the city's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding the SHSAT be suspended altogether until the city's Board of Education was able to show all children have had access to appropriate materials to prepare themselves. Students published several editorials in response to ACORN's claims, stating the admissions system at the school was based on student merit, not race.<ref name="stuy_timeline">{{cite web |title=Stuyvesant 100 Year Timeline |url=http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050221111322/http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html |archive-date=February 21, 2005 |access-date=June 27, 2006 |publisher=Stuyvesant Centennial Committee}}</ref><ref name=DartmouthReview1997>{{cite journal |url=http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php |title=Destroying Excellence |date=May 28, 1997 |first=Jeffrey |last=Hart |journal=Dartmouth Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041030110521/http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php |archive-date=October 30, 2004 |access-date=June 27, 2006}}</ref>
Although primarily known for its strength in math and science, Stuyvesant is also home to a robust music program and offers students ten music groups, ranging from a symphony ] and ] ensemble to a chamber ]. Comprehensive programs in the ] offer students courses in British and classical literature, ], ], ], ], ], and a host of ] and ] classes. The history core requires a year of ], ] and ], as well as a semester of ] and ]. Humanities electives include American ], ] and ], ], "] and ]", "], ] and ] issues", small business ], and ].


A number of students take preparatory courses offered by private tutorial companies such as ] and ] to perform better on the SHSAT, often leaving those unable to afford such classes at a disadvantage. To bridge this gap and boost minority admissions, the Board of Education started the Math Science Institute in 1995,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/02/nyregion/putting-dreams-test-special-report-elite-high-school-grueling-exam-away.html |title=PUTTING DREAMS TO THE TEST: A special report; Elite High School Is a Grueling Exam Away |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Elisabeth |last=Bumiller |date=April 2, 1998 |access-date=May 2, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130213183258/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/02/nyregion/putting-dreams-test-special-report-elite-high-school-grueling-exam-away.html |archive-date=February 13, 2013 }}</ref> a free program to prepare students for the admissions test.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/Middle/SHSI/default.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305200201/http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/Middle/SHSI/default.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2010 |title=Specialized High Schools Institute |publisher=] |date=March 11, 2009 |access-date=May 2, 2009}}</ref> Students attend preparatory classes through the program, now known as the Specialized High School Institute (also known as DREAM),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/SHSI/default.htm |title=What is DREAM – The Specialized High Schools Institute (DREAM – SHSI)? |publisher=] |access-date=May 29, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403133643/http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/SHSI/default.htm |archive-date=April 3, 2017 }}</ref> at several schools around the city from the summer after sixth grade until the eighth-grade exam. Despite the implementation of these free programs for improving underprivileged children's enrollment, black and Hispanic enrollment continued to decline.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/education/18schools.html |access-date=May 2, 2009 |title=In Elite N.Y. Schools, a Dip in Blacks and Hispanics&nbsp;— New York Times |date=August 18, 2006 |first=Elissa |last=Gootman |newspaper=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424074002/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/education/18schools.html |archive-date=April 24, 2009 }}</ref> After further expansion of those free test prep programs, there was still no increase in percentages to the attendance of black and Hispanic children.<ref name="nyt" /> {{As of|2019}}, fewer than 1% of freshman openings were given to black students, while over 66% were given to Asian-American students, most of whom had similar ] backgrounds to those of the black students.<ref name="nyt">{{cite web | title=Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.'s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots | website=The New York Times | date=March 18, 2019 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/nyregion/black-students-nyc-high-schools.html | access-date=March 19, 2019 | archive-date=March 18, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190318234146/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/nyregion/black-students-nyc-high-schools.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/stuyvesant-admissions-controversy-fact-or-fiction/585460/|title=4 Myths Fueling the Fight Over NYC's Exclusive High Schools|first=Alia|last=Wong|date=March 21, 2019|website=The Atlantic|access-date=September 8, 2019|archive-date=April 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422232526/https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/stuyvesant-admissions-controversy-fact-or-fiction/585460/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Stuyvesant has recently entered into an agreement with ], in which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit but taught by Stuyvesant teachers. Some of these courses include physical chemistry, linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1361|title=Stuyvesant Students Get a Taste of College After School|date=]|fisrt=Jin-ji|last=Kim|accessdate=2006-06-27|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050223090251/http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1361|archivedate=2005-02-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1360|title=Staff Editorial|accessdate=2006-06-27|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050223084654/http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1360|archivedate=2005-02-23}}</ref>


The New York City Department of Education reported in 2003 that public per student spending at Stuyvesant High School is slightly lower than the city average.<ref name="NYCDOE2003">{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf |title=2002–2003 Annual Report, Stuyvesant High School |author=Manhattan Superintendency |publisher=] |year=2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628195704/http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2007 |access-date=March 8, 2006}}</ref> Stuyvesant also receives private contributions from alumni, retired faculty, charitable foundations and educational grants to build up a school endowment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv|title=Stuyvesant promotional video|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant|format=video (WMV)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080228195504/http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv|archive-date=February 28, 2008|access-date=March 8, 2006}}</ref>
==Extracurricular activities==
===Sports===
Stuyvesant fields 26 ]s, including a ] team, as well as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ]/], ], ], ]/], ] and ] teams. In addition, Stuyvesant club teams include boys' varsity and junior varsity, and girls' varsity ] teams. The boys' Ultimate team, Sticky Fingers, won the City Championship title in 2005 and 2006. The Stuyvesant Cross Country team was ] City Champions in 2004 and 2005. The Stuyvesant Boys Swimming Team, the Pirates, have been PSAL City Champions consecutively since 2000 and Opens champions since 1995. The Stuyvesant Bowling Team has been the PSAL Manhattan Borough Champion consecutively since 1990. The girls soccer team, the Mimbas, brought home the City Championship title in 2001, 2004, and 2005, despite a severe lack of practice space and lack of a home field. {{fact}}


==Academics==
Unlike most American high schools, every sports team at Stuyvesant has its own name, like the Peglegs (football), Chipmunkz (softball), Ballers (boys soccer), Penguins (girls swimming), Phoenix (girls basketball), Mimbas (girls soccer), Dragons (boys handball), and Sticky Fingers (girls and boys ultimate). These names tend to change with time and lend each Stuyvesant team a unique flavor.
The ] curriculum at Stuyvesant mostly includes four years of English, history, and laboratory-based sciences. The sciences courses include requisite ], ], and physics classes. Students also take four years of mathematics.<ref name="2015_reqs"/> Students also take three years of a single foreign language; a semester each of introductory art, music, health, and ]; one semester of ]; and two lab-based technology courses.<ref name="2015_reqs">{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy.edu/academics/grad_require1.jsp |title=Graduation Requirements |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |year=2012 |access-date=January 5, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202351/http://www.stuy.edu/academics/grad_require1.jsp |archive-date=February 29, 2012 }}</ref> Several exemptions from technology education exist for seniors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf |title=Graduation Requirements |work=Stuyvesant High School Parent Handbook |publisher=Stuyvesant Parents Association |year=2004 |access-date=May 28, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060623044426/http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf |archive-date=June 23, 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/grad_reqs.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060415001829/http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/grad_reqs.html |archive-date=April 15, 2006 |title=Graduation Requirements |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=May 28, 2006}}</ref> Stuyvesant offers students a selection of elective courses, uncluding ], New York City history, Women's Voices, and Computer Graphics Design in the Computer Science Area.<ref name="STUY_COURSES">{{cite web |url=http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060214025850/http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html |archive-date=February 14, 2006 |title=Online Course Guide |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=May 28, 2006}}</ref> Most students complete the New York City Regents courses by junior year and take ] during their senior year. However, the school offers math courses through ]s for the more advanced students. A year of technical drawing was formerly required; students learned how to draft by hand in its first semester and how to draft using a computer in the second. Now, students take a one-semester compacted version of the former drafting course, as well as a semester of introductory computer science. For the class of 2015, the one-semester computer science course was replaced with a two-semester course.<ref name="2015_reqs"/>


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In ], Stuyvesant added a varsity ice hockey team, the first public school in New York City to do so. The team was run by students without administrative assistance for several years. There is also an annual alumni game, where notable Stuyvesant alumni hockey players such as ] and ] often appear. The team has been in first place in its 8-team ] league every year, though it often plays teams from outside the league. Stuyvesant is also a powerhouse in fencing with a string of city championships from 1986 through 1989. Stuyvesant does not, however, have a football field, baseball field, or tennis court, though the new building does have a pool.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://physed.stuy.edu/sportsteam.html|title=Stuyvesant Athletics|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref>
As a specialized high school, Stuyvesant offers a range of ] (AP) courses.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy100.org/about.html |title=Stuyvesant Handbook |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=April 30, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305222753/http://www.stuy100.org/about.html |archive-date=March 5, 2005 }}</ref> These courses focus on math, science, history, English, or foreign languages. This gives students various opportunities to earn college credit. AP computer science students can also take three additional computer programming courses after the completion of the AP course: systems level programming, ], and software development.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126659&type=d&pREC_ID=253269#computer_science_courses|title=Online Course Guide: Computer Science|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=June 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629171443/http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126659&type=d&pREC_ID=253269#computer_science_courses|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition, there is a one-year ]ing class which can earn students ] (CCNA) certification.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=128232&type=d&pREC_ID=254127 |title=Advanced Computer Technology, Networking & Internetworking&nbsp;— Cisco Networking Academy |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=August 8, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130414151628/http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=128232&type=d&pREC_ID=254127 |archive-date=April 14, 2013 }}</ref>


Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include Spanish, French, German, ], Chinese and Japanese.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126658&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=253719|title=Online Course Guide: World Languages|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=June 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630024232/http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126658&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=253719|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2005, the school also started offering courses in Arabic after the school's Muslim Student Association had raised funds to support the course.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thevillager.com/villager_123/stuyvensantmuslimstudents.html |title=Stuyvesant Muslim students now able to study Arabic |newspaper=Village Voice |date=September 7, 2005 |access-date=April 29, 2008 |first=Sara G. |last=Levin |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207114103/http://thevillager.com/villager_123/stuyvensantmuslimstudents.html |archive-date=February 7, 2010 }}</ref> Stuyvesant's ] and geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology, ], ], medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, ] and ], ], laboratory techniques, medical human ], ], the molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and psychology.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126967&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=655528|title=Online Course Guide: Biology and Geo-Science|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=May 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522024725/https://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126967&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=655528|url-status=live}}</ref> The chemistry and physics departments include classes in ], ], astronomy, engineering mechanics, and ].<ref>The two departments are housed in the same room at Stuyvesant. See:
===Clubs===
* {{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=127870&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=627676|title=Online Course Guide: Chemistry|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=April 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418170127/https://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=127870&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=627676|url-status=live}}
Stuyvesant offers clubs, publications, teams and other opportunities under a system similar to that of many colleges. It hosts over 200 clubs ranging from "PottyRings", a club dedicated to '']'' and '']'', to Pink LEMONed, a Japanese rock culture club, to Help the Helpless, dedicated to community service, the Thinkers club (philosophy), and the Robotics Team, which competes in the international ].<ref name="clubsandpubs">{{cite web|url=http://www.stuysu.org/cp|title=Clubs and Pubs|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref> The ] and debate team is nationally recognized and arguably one of Stuyvesant's most successful teams, with a 25+ year history of winning national championship tournaments on both individual and team levels. Other debating clubs include ] (a political debate club) and ]. The Stuyvesant Theater Community puts on three student-run productions a year (a fall ], a winter ], and a spring ]) as well as a one-act festival and several smaller studio productions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuytheater.org|title=Stuyvesant Theater Community|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref>
* {{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=128035&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=654321|title=Online Course Guide: Physics|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=March 27, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327071448/https://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=128035&type=d&termREC_ID=&pREC_ID=654321|url-status=live}}</ref>


The English Department offers students courses in British and classical literature, Shakespearean literature, science fiction, philosophy, ], ], acting, journalism, creative writing, and poetry.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126657&type=d&pREC_ID=253626|title=Online Course Guide: English|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=June 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630002955/http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126657&type=d&pREC_ID=253626|url-status=live}}</ref> The Social Studies core requires two years of global history (or one year of global followed by one year of European history), one year of ], as well as a semester each of economics and government. Humanities electives include American ]; ] and ], ] and persecution, and ], ] and ] issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126662&type=d&pREC_ID=253947|title=Online Course Guide: Social Studies|publisher=Stuyvesant High School|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-date=June 29, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629232806/http://stuy.enschool.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=126662&type=d&pREC_ID=253947|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Publications===
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In 2004, Stuyvesant High entered into an agreement with the ] (C.C.N.Y. – part of the larger ]), which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit but taught by S.H.S. faculty. Some of these courses include linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1361 |title=Stuyvesant Students Get a Taste of College After School |date=October 18, 2004 |first=Jin-ji |last=Kim |magazine=The Spectator |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050223090251/http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1361 |archive-date=February 23, 2005 |access-date=June 27, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1360 |title=Staff Editorial |magazine=The Spectator |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050223084654/http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1360 |archive-date=February 23, 2005 |access-date=June 27, 2006}}</ref>
Stuyvesant hosts 25 publications, including many departmental ]s.<ref name="clubsandpubs"/>


Prior to the ] (Scholastic Aptitude Test), Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of 1408 out of 1600 (685 in the verbal section of the test, 723 in the math section).<ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> In 2010, the average score on the SAT for Stuyvesant students was 2087 out of 2400,<ref name="NYCDOE2010">{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountability/Reports/Data/TestResults/2010_CBS_School%20Summary%20SAT%20Data.xlsx |format=] |publisher=] |title=2010 College-Bound Seniors SAT Summary |year=2010 |access-date=August 8, 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122033946/http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountability/Reports/Data/TestResults/2010_CBS_School%20Summary%20SAT%20Data.xlsx |archive-date=January 22, 2013 }}</ref> while the class of 2013 had an average SAT score of 2096.<ref name="syracuse.com">{{Cite news|url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/the_upstate_ny_high_schools_with_the_best_sat_scores_how_did_yours_do.html?appSession=23810313694460625216221026762750874671725049447233511509541402243030667342877835987952840361559220115157664715043947786717763616|title=NYS high school SAT scores: Look up any public high school in the state|last=Doran|first=Elizabeth|date=June 27, 2014|work=syracuse.com|access-date=December 17, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224042410/http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/06/the_upstate_ny_high_schools_with_the_best_sat_scores_how_did_yours_do.html?appSession=23810313694460625216221026762750874671725049447233511509541402243030667342877835987952840361559220115157664715043947786717763616|archive-date=December 24, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> {{As of|2023}}, Stuyvesant students' average SAT score was 1510 of 1600 points.<ref name="Niche">{{cite web | title=Stuyvesant High School Test Scores and Academics | website=Niche | url=https://www.niche.com/k12/stuyvesant-high-school-new-york-ny/academics/ | access-date=October 11, 2018 | archive-date=October 11, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011214612/https://www.niche.com/k12/stuyvesant-high-school-new-york-ny/academics/ | url-status=live }}</ref> Stuyvesant also administers more ] exams than supposedly any other high school in the world, as well as the highest number of students who reach the AP courses' "mastery level".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/education/26advanced.html |title=New York Tops Advanced Placement Tests |first=Susan |last=Saulny |work=] |date=January 26, 2006 |access-date=March 8, 2006 |archive-date=October 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019171133/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/education/new-york-tops-advanced-placement-tests.html |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, there are 31 AP classes offered, with a little more than half of all students taking at least one AP class, and about 98% of students pass their AP tests.<ref name="Niche"/>
====The Spectator====
''The Spectator'' is Stuyvesant's official school ]. It contains 11 sections: news, features, ], arts & entertainment, sports, photography, art, layout, copy, business, and web. The departments are each headed by at least two editors, all of whom encompass the editorial board of the paper. The editorial board meets daily in the Spectator ] class and is headed by the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor. At the start of their term, the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor select four editors to be members of the Managing Board, a group that advises the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor on matters relating to the paper. There are over 250 total staff members who help to produce the bi-weekly publication. At the beginning of the fall and spring terms, there are recruitments, but interested students may join at any time. The Spectator is independent from the school, but it remains the prime news source for students, teachers, and administrators.


==Extracurricular activities==
The Spectator, founded in 1915, is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#Spectator|title=The Spectator|work=Stuyvesant High School Extra-curricula's|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref> It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake, ] '']'', and it has been recognized by the ] ] on several occasions, most recently in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/docs/awards-to-people/sullivan/recipients/index.html|title=Awards to People|publisher=]|accessdate=2006-05-28}}</ref>
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===Sports===
====The Stuyvesant Standard====
Stuyvesant fields 32 athletics ]s, including the swimming, golf, ], volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, ], ], baseball/softball, ], tennis, ]/], ], ], and ] teams.<ref name="PSAL_profile">{{cite web |url=http://www.psal.org/profiles/school-profile.aspx#02519 |title=PSAL profile: Stuyvesant |publisher=Public Schools Athletic League |access-date=September 21, 2019 |archive-date=September 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925183313/http://psal.org/profiles/school-profile.aspx#02519 |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition, Stuyvesant has ] teams for the boys' varsity, boys' junior varsity, and girls' varsity divisions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rivative.net/ultimate/1996_1998/98nationals_hs.html |title=1998 High School (Juniors) Nationals |first=Tony |last=Leonardo |year=1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060517164423/http://www.rivative.net/ultimate/1996_1998/98nationals_hs.html |archive-date=May 17, 2006 |access-date=January 26, 2008}}</ref>
Founded in 2001, ''The Stuyvesant Standard'' is a bi-weekly, school-funded newspaper published by Stuyvesant students for the community in and around the school. It covers news at school, city, state, national and international levels and contains "interest sections" such as Business, Science, Literary and Puzzle (Leisure), alongside the standard departments of Opinions, Sports, and Arts & Entertainment. Always a laboratory for innovative columns, its current columns include: "Meet This Teacher," "The Critical Lens," a space on students' opinions, "Sports Beat" and "Tomorrow's Technology Today." The Standard is distributed within Stuyvesant and throughout the surrounding community.


15 years after moving to Chambers Street in Battery Park City, in September 2007, the Stuyvesant High football team was given a home field at ], on the ] waterfront of the westside of Manhattan situated north of the school at ] and ]. In 2008, the baseball team was granted use of the pier after construction and delivery of an ] pitching mound that met ] specifications.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=http://new.stuybaseball.org/about-us/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150320050624/http://new.stuybaseball.org/about-us/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 20, 2015 |website=stuybaseball.org |publisher=Friends of Stuyvesant Baseball |access-date=March 19, 2015 }}</ref> Stuyvesant also has its own swimming pool, but it does not contain its own running track or tennis court.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://physed.stuy.edu/sportsteam.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060306013620/http://physed.stuy.edu/sportsteam.html |archive-date=March 6, 2006 |title=Stuyvesant Athletics |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=March 8, 2006}}</ref>
Despite its youth, The Standard is now one of the largest organizations at Stuyvesant. Its alumni remain close to the current staff and are very active in the paper.


====Other publications==== ===Student government===
The student body of Stuyvesant High School is represented by the Stuyvesant Student Union,<ref>{{cite web | title=Stuyvesant Student Union | website=Stuyvesant Student Union | url=http://stuysu.org | access-date=July 16, 2018 | archive-date=July 16, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716165648/https://www.stuysu.org/ | url-status=live }}</ref> a ]. It comprises a group of students (elected each year for each grade) who promote and manage extracurricular activities (clubs and publications), by organizing out-of-school activity such as city excursions or fundraisers, and provide a voice to the student body in all discussion of school policy with the administration.<ref name="studunion1">{{cite web|url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bJGg1NMor-JHf9Cxt9ntch3AX7XcDSPx_zc3mrwQ3E/edit|title=Constitution of the Student Union|publisher=Stuyvesant High School Student Union|access-date=July 16, 2018|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818191219/https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-bJGg1NMor-JHf9Cxt9ntch3AX7XcDSPx_zc3mrwQ3E/edit|url-status=live}}</ref>
*''Caliper'', Stuyvesant's biannual literary magazine. Caliper is one of the oldest high school literary publications in the nation, and along with monthly open mic sessions, helps the Stuyvesant literary community flourish in an environment focusing on math and science.
*''Indicator'', the Stuyvesant year book.
*''Math Survey'', the annual Math Department publication. Many of Stuyvesant's notable mathematicians were first published in Math Survey. The is available online.
*''Political Fire:'' An unofficial newspaper started in 2006 which deals solely with political issues.
*''The Broken Escalator:'' A humor publication, featuring joke articles about Stuyvesant.
*''The Biomed Times:'' The annual journal of recent biological developments.
*''A Comic is You:'' A comic publication.


===Academic teams=== ===Clubs and publications===
Stuyvesant allows students to join clubs, publications, and teams under a system similar to that of many colleges.<ref name="clubsandpubs">{{cite web |url=http://www.stuysu.org/cp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080209145929/http://www.stuysu.org/cp |archive-date=February 9, 2008 |title=Clubs and Pubs |publisher=Stuyvesant High School Student Union |access-date=May 28, 2006}}</ref> {{As of|2015}}, the school had 150 student clubs.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2015/09/27/the-elite-eight-here-are-the-top-schools-in-nyc/|title=The Elite Eight: Here are the top schools in NYC|date=September 27, 2015|work=New York Post|access-date=December 17, 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224101158/https://nypost.com/2015/09/27/the-elite-eight-here-are-the-top-schools-in-nyc/|archive-date=December 24, 2017}}</ref>
Stuyvesant's academic teams include its nationally recognized Speech and Debate team, ], ], science olympiad, and math, which regularly compete successfully at major regional, national, and &mdash; at least in the case of the math team &mdash; international tournaments. A FIRST Robotics team, called Stuypulse,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuypulse.com|title=Stuyvesant Robotics 694|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> was founded in 2000 and has since won the New York City Regional ('03), and the New York Chairman's Award ('05). Stuyvesant also has a ] team, a JSA (]) chapter, and a Model Congress team which competes at regional colleges. The Model United Nations team hosts STUYMUNC, an annual conference which takes place at Stuyvesant.


===SING!=== ====''The Spectator''====
{{Main|The Spectator (Stuyvesant High School)}}
]
''The Spectator'' is Stuyvesant's official in-school newspaper, which is published biweekly and is independent from the school administration and faculty.<ref name="About The Spectator">{{Cite web|url=http://stuyspectator.com:80/about/|title=About Us|website=The Stuyvesant Spectator|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091205111352/http://stuyspectator.com/about/|archive-date=December 5, 2009|url-status=dead|access-date=December 17, 2017}}</ref> There are over 250 students who help with its publication.<ref name="About The Spectator"/> At the beginning of the fall and spring terms, there are recruitments, but interested students may join at any time.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201145517/http://stuyspectator.com/ |date=December 1, 2009 }}</ref>
The annual theater competition known as ] pits seniors, juniors, and "soph-frosh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in a race to put on the best performance. Started in 1947 at ] in ], SING! is a tradition at many New York City high schools. At Stuyvesant, SING! started as a small event in 1973 and has grown to a huge school-wide event &mdash; in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from cast, chorus, Irish Jig, Step, Bollywood Dance, Latin Dance, and tech crews. SING! begins in late November and culminates in final performances on three nights in March/April. The show sells out all three nights, raising over $30,000 for Stuyvesant's Clubs and Pubs via the Student Union Budget. {{fact}}


Founded in 1915 (and now 109 years old), ''The Spectator'' is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications.<ref name="extracurriculars">{{cite web |url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#Spectator |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928022536/http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#Spectator |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |title=The Spectator |work=Stuyvesant High School Extra-curricula's |publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant |access-date=March 18, 2007}}</ref> It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake; the ]'s '']'', and has been recognized by the ]'s well-known nation-wide ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/docs/awards-to-people/sullivan/recipients/index.html |title=Awards to People |publisher=] |access-date=May 28, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070805221439/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/docs/awards-to-people/sullivan/recipients/index.html |archive-date=August 5, 2007 }}</ref> founded 1925.
==Student body==
For most of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, the student body at Stuyvesant was heavily ]ish; however ] students began a significant influx in the 1970s. As of 2005, the student body was approximately 51 percent ] and 38 percent ], with ] and ]s each constituting roughly four percent of the population apiece.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nycenet.edu/OurSchools/Region9/M475/default.htm|title=Stuyvesant High School|publisher=New York City Dept. of Education|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref> Russian and South Asian students are well-represented, and Jews continue to comprise a large portion of the student body. Stuyvesant possesses a disproportionate amount of historical minorities in comparison to national and local population distributions.<ref name="Stern2003">{{cite web|url=http://www.educationnext.org/20033/20.html|title=Façade of Excellence|first=Sol|last=Stern|year=2003|publisher=]|accessdate=2006-03-08}}</ref><ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> (See also ].) Although students may only legally attend Stuyvesant if they live in the New York City area, an unknown number of students may live in Long Island or New Jersey.


=== Controversy === ====''The Voice''====
]
==== Accusations of bias in admission tests ====
''The Voice'' was founded in the 1973–1974 academic year as an independent publication only loosely sanctioned by school officials.<ref name="extracurriculars"/> It had the appearance of a magazine and gained a large readership. ''The Voice'' attracted a considerable amount of controversy and a ] ] lawsuit, after which the administration forced it to go off-campus and to turn commercial in 1975–1976.<ref name="extracurriculars"/>


At the beginning of the 1975–1976 academic year, ''The Voice'' decided to publish the results of a confidential random survey. The administration refused to permit ''The Voice'' to distribute the questionnaire, and the Board of Education refused to intervene. The then editor-in-chief of ''The Voice'', brought a First Amendment challenge to this decision to the ] in front of ] ].<ref name="SDNY">{{cite court|litigants=Trachtman v. Anker|vol=426|reporter=F.Supp.|opinion=198|court=S.D.N.Y.|year=1976}}</ref>
The school's off-center demographic profile and relative paucity of black and Hispanic students have often been a source of consternation for some city administrators. John Lindsay, mayor of New York City from 1966 to 1973, argued that the test was culturally biased against Black and Hispanic students and sought to implement an ] program. At the protest of parents, however, the plan was scrapped and led to the passage of Article 12, stating that admissions would continue to be by examination only. Despite this, however, a small number of students judged to be economically disadvantaged and who come within a few points of the cut-off score may be given an extra chance to pass the test.<ref name="Stern2003"/>


Relying on the 1969 ] holding in '']'' that "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression",<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District |vol=393 |reporter=US |opinion=503 |pinpoint=21 |court=] |date=1969 |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/393/503/case.html |access-date=December 17, 2017 }}</ref> Motley ordered the New York City Board of Education to permit the distribution of the survey to the juniors and seniors.<ref name="SDNY"/> However, Judge Motley's ruling was overturned on appeal to the ].<ref name="2d Cir.">{{cite court |litigants=Trachtman v. Anker |vol=563 |reporter=F.2d |opinion=512 |court=2d Cir. |year=1977}}</ref> There Judge ], joined by Judge ] and over dissent by third Judge ], held that the distribution of the questionnaires was properly disallowed by the administration.<ref name="2d Cir." /> The higher level U.S. Supreme Court denied ] review.<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Trachtman v. Anker |vol=435 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=925 |year=1978}}</ref>
In 1996 community activist group ACORN published two reports called "Secret Apartheid" and "Secret Apartheid II", calling the SHSAT "permanently suspect" and a "product of an institutional racism", and claiming that Black and Hispanic students did not have access to proper test preparation materials.<ref name="ACORN_SA2RRR"/> Along with Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew, they began an initiative for more diversity in NY's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding that since only a few districts send the majority of Stuyvesant's and Bronx Sciences's students, that the SHSAT be suspended altogether "until the Board of Education can show that the students of each middle school in the system have had access to curricula and instruction that would prepare them for this test regardless of their color or economic status". Jesse Shapiro, Stuyvesant valedictorian, and Micah C. Lasher, then a sophomore, published several editorials in response, and the outcome was averted.<ref name="stuy_timeline"/><ref name=DartmouthReview1997>{{cite web|url=http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php|title=Destroying Excellence|date=]|first=Jeffrey|last=Hart|accessdate=2006-06-27|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20041030110521/http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php|archivedate=2004-10-30}}</ref>


===SING!===
====Self-segregation allegations====
]
In the early 2000s, Ling Wu Kong '01 published several articles in ''The Spectator'', the school's paper,<ref name="raceatstuy">{{cite web|url=http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=212|title=Race at Stuy|accessdate=2006-06-27|archiveurl=http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:-IoH4wuu3y0J:spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi%3Fid%3D212|archivedate=2005-07-15}}</ref> bemoaning an apparent lack of interaction between the different ethnic groups at Stuyvesant,<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:-IoH4wuu3y0J:spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi%3Fid%3D212 |title=Abacus Guide to Stuyvesant High School |accessdate=2006-05-06 |last=Glickman |first=Emily |year=2002}}</ref> While many students do socialize within their own ethnic groups, each having their own area to socialize in, friendships that cross racial boundaries are common.{{fact}} In fact, there is less of a "racially divided" culture in Stuyvesant than in other high schools; students are accepting and have friends of all cultures.{{fact}} Indeed, Stuyvesant's numerous clubs include a myriad of cultural understanding organizations, and cultural festivals are held to promote a better understanding of other cultures. The International Food Festival, hosted by the foreign language department, takes place every spring.


The annual theater competition known as ] pits seniors, juniors, and "soph-frosh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in a contest to put on the best performance. SING! started in 1947 at ] in Brooklyn<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher/backissues/1999-2000/000614oscar.html |title=A red violin and a gold statue: PSC member cops Oscar for movie score |date=June 14, 2000 |first=Clarisse |last=Butler |journal=New York Teacher |access-date=October 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050526123529/http://www.nysut.org/newyorkteacher/backissues/1999-2000/000614oscar.html |archive-date=May 26, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.jessicasteen.com/singsingsing_art.html |title=Sing! Sing! Sing! |first=George |last=Anthony |newspaper=] |date=February 19, 1989 |access-date=October 15, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718175338/http://www.jessicasteen.com/singsingsing_art.html |archive-date=July 18, 2011}}</ref> and has expanded to many New York City high schools since then.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3D81038F932A05750C0A96F948260 |title=Review/Film; Harmonies in High School |first=Janet |last=Maslin |date=March 31, 1989 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=October 15, 2008 |archive-date=October 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019171132/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/31/movies/review-film-harmonies-in-high-school.html |url-status=live }}</ref> SING! at Stuyvesant started as a small event in 1973,<ref name="OSB_SING">{{cite web |url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/activities/clubs/sing.html |title=Sing |publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant |access-date=June 9, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002153409/http://www.ourstrongband.org/activities/clubs/sing.html |archive-date=October 2, 2011 }}</ref> and since then, has grown to a school-wide event; in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, directed, produced, and funded by students.<ref name="OSB_SING"/> Their involvement ranges from being members of the production's casts, choruses, or costume and tech crews to Step, Hip-Hop, Swing, Modern, Bolly, Flow, Tap or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late January to February and ends in final performances on three nights in March/April.<ref name="OSB_SING"/> Scoring is done on each night's performances and the winner is determined by the overall total.<ref name="OSB_SING"/> In 2023, soph-frosh won SING! for the first time in the tradition's fifty-one year history.
==Notable people==
{{Main|List of Stuyvesant High School people}}


==Reputation==
Stuyvesant has many mathematicians among its alumni, including more leading figures in the field than are associated with most major universities. A number of leading physicists and chemists are also Stuyvesant alumni, as well as several well known entertainers and authors, including '']'' star ], '']'' star ], ], core member of the musical group ], and actor ].
The Stuyvesant High School has produced many ], including four ].<ref name=AClassApart>{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Alec |url=https://archive.org/details/classapartprodig00klei |url-access=registration |title=A Class Apart |page= |publisher=] |year=2007 |isbn=978-1416545538 |access-date=June 11, 2013 |quote=Perhaps the truest measure of Stuyvesant's greatness is what its students do after they leave school. Four alumni have gone on to win the Nobel prize: Joshua Lederberg, in 1958 for physiology or medicine... Roald Hoffmann, in 1981 for chemistry... Robert W. Fogel, in 1993 for economics... and Richard Axel, in 2004 for physiology or medicine... }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy.edu/about/faq.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070729175123/http://www.stuy.edu/about/faq.php |archive-date=July 29, 2007 |title=Stuy FAQs |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=September 17, 2007}}</ref> As of 2024, ''] magazine'' ranked Stuyvesant as 2nd among New York City high schools and 21st among ] high schools.<ref>{{cite web | title=How Does Stuyvesant High School Rank Among America's Best High Schools? | website=U.S. News & World Report | date=December 4, 2017 | url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/stuyvesant-high-school-13092 | access-date=December 17, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171211203814/https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/stuyvesant-high-school-13092 | archive-date=December 11, 2017 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> In December 2007, '']'' studied the freshman classes at eight selective colleges in the U.S. and reported that Stuyvesant sent 67 students to these schools, comprising 9.9% of its 674 seniors.<ref name="WSJ_StackUp">{{cite news |url=https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-COLLEGE0711-sort.html |title=How the Schools Stack Up |first=Ellen |last=Gamerman |author2=Juliet Chung |author3=SungHa Park |author4=Candace Jackson |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |date=December 28, 2007 |access-date=January 1, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071228042019/http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-COLLEGE0711-sort.html |archive-date=December 28, 2007 }}</ref> In recent years, Stuyvesant High’s student newspaper has reported on college admissions of the graduating classes, with the class of 2021 having 133 students offered admission to ] institutions.<ref name="StuySpecCollege">{{cite news |url=https://www.stuyspec.com/college/college-by-the-numbers |title=How the Schools Stack Up |first=David |last=Chen |author2=Logan Ruzzier |author3=Adrianna Peng |author4=Shafiul Haque |author5=Jared Moser |newspaper=The Stuyvesant Spectator |date=December 22, 2021 |access-date=November 17, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117213224/https://www.stuyspec.com/college/college-by-the-numbers }}</ref>


''U.S. News & World Report'' included Stuyvesant on its list of "Best High Schools" published in December 2009, ranking 31st.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2007/11/30/2007-11-30_us_news__world_report_gives_city_schools.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102140107/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2007/11/30/2007-11-30_us_news__world_report_gives_city_schools.html |archive-date=January 2, 2008 |title=U.S. News & World Report gives city schools high marks in new list |first=Carrie |last=Melago |work=] |date=March 11, 2007 |access-date=March 31, 2008}}</ref> In its 2010 progress report, the New York City Department of Education assigned S.H.S. an "A", the highest possible grade.<ref name="NYCDOE2010_1">{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/OA/SchoolReports/2009-10/Progress_Report_2010_HS_M475.pdf |title=2009–2010 Annual Progress Report, Stuyvesant High School |author=NYC Department of Education |publisher=] |year=2010 |access-date=October 2, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110112204300/http://schools.nyc.gov/OA/SchoolReports/2009-10/Progress_Report_2010_HS_M475.pdf |archive-date=January 12, 2011 }}</ref>
Stuyvesant alumni include four Nobel laureates:
*] (1941) - 1958 ]
*] (1944) - 1993 ]
*] (1954) - 1981 ]
*] (1963) - 2004 ]


Stuyvesant has had the second highest number of ] semi-finalists, behind ] in ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.getlisty.com/preview/2009-top-high-schools-by-national-merit-semi-finalists |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426012348/http://www.getlisty.com/preview/2009-top-high-schools-by-national-merit-semi-finalists |archive-date=April 26, 2010 |title=2009 top high schools by National Merit Semi-finalists &#124; GetListy! |date=April 26, 2010 |access-date=May 14, 2012}}</ref> From 2002 to 2010, Stuyvesant has produced 103 semi-finalists and 13 finalists on the ], the second most of any secondary school in the United States behind the Bronx High School of Science.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/doc9.htm |title=Nurturing Science's Young Elite: Westinghouse Talent Search |first=Scott |last=Huler |work=] |date=April 15, 1991 |access-date=July 9, 2006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060616052142/http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/doc9.htm |archive-date=June 16, 2006 }}</ref> In 2014, Stuyvesant had 11 semi-finalists for the Intel Search, the highest number of any school in the U.S.<ref name=":1" />
Author ] taught English at Stuyvesant before the publication of his novels '']'', '']'', and '']''. ''Teacher Man'''s third section, titled ''Coming Alive in Room 205'', is all about McCourt's time at Stuyvesant, and mentions a number of students and faculty.


In the 2010s, exam schools, including Stuyvesant, have been the subject of studies questioning their academic effectiveness.<ref>{{cite journal | title=The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools | journal=Econometrica | volume=82 | issue=1 | year=2014 | issn=0012-9682 | doi=10.3982/ecta10266 | pages=137–196 | hdl=10419/62423 | s2cid=45092956 | url=https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp6790 | hdl-access=free | access-date=September 11, 2022 | archive-date=September 24, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924065320/https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/izaizadps/dp6790.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> A study by the ] (]) and ] (]) economists compared high school outcomes for Stuyvesant students who barely passed the SHSAT score required for admission, to those of applicants just below that score, using the latter as a ] of peers who attended other schools. The study found no discernible average difference in the two groups' later performance on New York state exams.<ref>{{cite web | title=Everybody Lies | website=Bloomsbury Publishing | date=April 19, 2018 | url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/everybody-lies-9781408894712/ | access-date=May 18, 2018}}</ref>
''See also ]''


==In pop culture== ==Notable people==
{{Main|List of Stuyvesant High School people}}
*The Stuyvesant High School building in Battery Park City was one of the main settings of the film '']'', although it was not mentioned by name. As in the film, Stuyvesant has no pool on the roof, despite a long history of seniors selling "rooftop pool passes" to new freshmen. It does, however, have a pool on the ground floor and a roof deck for its technology classes.
{{See also|Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni}}
Notable scientists among Stuyvesant alumni include mathematicians ] (1945)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://math.mit.edu/about/history/obituaries/kostant.php|publisher=MIT Mathematics|date=February 16, 2017|title=Bertram Kostant, professor emeritus of mathematics, dies at 88|access-date=December 8, 2019|archive-date=December 8, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191208094531/https://math.mit.edu/about/history/obituaries/kostant.php|url-status=live}}</ref> and
] (1950),<ref name="PaulCohen">{{cite news |url=http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/april4/cohen-040407.html |publisher=Stanford Report |date=March 28, 2007 |title=Paul Cohen, winner of world's top mathematics prize, dies at 72 |first=Dawn |last=Levy |access-date=October 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110731100612/http://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/april4/cohen-040407.html |archive-date=July 31, 2011 }}</ref> string theorist ] (1980),<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2006/green.html |title=The String is The Thing&nbsp;– Brian Greene Unravels the Fabric of the Universe |journal=Columbia Magazine |first=JR |last=Minkel |date=Spring 2006 |access-date=October 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223012954/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2006/green.html |archive-date=December 23, 2007 }}</ref> physicist ] (1980),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/randall.html |title=The Third Culture&nbsp;– Lisa Randall |publisher=Edge |access-date=October 31, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181433/http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/randall.html |archive-date=September 30, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and genomic researcher ] (1974).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/genomics/lander.html |title=Eric S. Lander, Ph.D. |first=Karen |last=Hopkin |access-date=October 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010052220/http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/genomics/lander.html |archive-date=October 10, 2007 }}</ref> Other prominent alumni include civil rights leader ],<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/left_3.htm |title=Biographical Dictionary of the American Left |editor1-first=Bernard K. |editor1-last=Johnpoll |editor2-first=Harvey |editor2-last=Klehr |first=Clayborne |last=Carson |year=1986 |access-date=April 11, 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020151551/http://www.stanford.edu/~ccarson/articles/left_3.htm |archive-date=October 20, 2012 }}</ref> '']'' editor ] (1953),<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-12-30-mn-10146-story.html|title=New York's Stuyvesant High School, a Young Achiever's Dream|last=Glave|first=Judie|date=December 30, 1990|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=December 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603012810/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-12-30/news/mn-10146_1_stuyvesant-high-school|archive-date=June 3, 2017|url-status=live|issn=0458-3035}}</ref> entertainers such as songwriter and ] founder ], ] (1935),<ref>{{cite book |title=Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original |first=Robin D. G. |last=Kelley |url=https://archive.org/details/theloniousmonkli0000kell |url-access=registration |page= |publisher=Free Press |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-684-83190-9 |access-date=November 23, 2013 }}</ref> and actors ] (1986),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/13/movies/perks-pitfalls-ruthless-killer-role-lucy-liu-boosts-body-count-new-film.html |title=The Perks and Pitfalls Of a Ruthless-Killer Role; Lucy Liu Boosts the Body Count in New Film |first=Lola |last=Ogunnaike |date=October 13, 2003 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 1, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091110225410/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/13/movies/perks-pitfalls-ruthless-killer-role-lucy-liu-boosts-body-count-new-film.html |archive-date=November 10, 2009 }}</ref> ] (1976),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Tim_Robbins |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070804064345/http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Tim_Robbins |archive-date=August 4, 2007 |title=Inside the Actors Studio&nbsp;— Guests&nbsp;— Tim Robbins |date=December 5, 1999 |publisher=] |access-date=November 1, 2007}}</ref> and ] (1918),<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flint |first=Peter B. |date=March 31, 1986 |title=James Cagney Is Dead at 86; Master of Pugnacious Grace |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/31/obituaries/james-cagney-is-dead-at-86-master-of-pugnacious-grace.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 28, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162514/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/31/obituaries/james-cagney-is-dead-at-86-master-of-pugnacious-grace.html }}</ref> comedian ] (1973),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/05/arts/be-it-ever-so-urban-it-s-green.html |title=Be It Ever So Urban, It's Green |first=Rick |last=Lyman |date=September 5, 1997 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 27, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113010245/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/05/arts/be-it-ever-so-urban-it-s-green.html |archive-date=November 13, 2013 }}</ref> playwright ] (1987),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Arthur-M-Jolly-Announced-As-200910-Winner-Of-Joining-Sword-Pen-Competition-20090409 |title=Arthur M. Jolly announced as winner of Joining Sword and Pen |newspaper=Broadway World |date=April 9, 2009 |access-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-date=November 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102163112/https://www.broadwayworld.com/chicago/article/Arthur-M-Jolly-Announced-As-200910-Winner-Of-Joining-Sword-Pen-Competition-20090409 |url-status=live }}</ref> sports anchor ] (1985), and Columbia University, early NBA and minor league pro basketball player and ] ] (1949).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/books/double-dribbling.html |title=Double Dribbling |newspaper=The New York Times |first=Eric |last=Konigsberg |date=March 3, 2002 |access-date=November 12, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090511194210/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/books/double-dribbling.html |archive-date=May 11, 2009 }}</ref> In business, government and politics, former ] ] in the Obama presidential administration (1969) is a Stuyvesant alumnus,<ref>{{cite news |title=Interview with Eric H. Holder, Jr. |url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/programs/dvl/files/Holder_Ericf.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221232555/http://www.thehistorymakers.com/programs/dvl/files/Holder_Ericf.html |archive-date=December 21, 2008 |last1=Tucker-Hamilton |first1=Racine |last2=Hickey |first2=Matthew |work=Oral history project |publisher=The History Makers |date=December 17, 2004 |access-date=November 18, 2008}}</ref> as are ] campaign manager and later presidential administration Senior Advisor to ] ] (1972)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103509.html?nav=hcmodule |title=The Player at Bat&nbsp;— David Axelrod, the Man With Obama's Game Plan, Is Also the Candidate's No. 1 Fan |first=Robert G. |last=Kaiser |newspaper=] |date=May 2, 2008 |access-date=May 6, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106052844/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103509.html?nav=hcmodule |archive-date=November 6, 2012 }}</ref> and former adviser to earlier President ], of ] (1964).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D61538F933A15753C1A963958260 |title=President's Guru Goes Public; Back Home, Dick Morris Tells Tales From the Clubhouse |first=Alison |last=Mitchell |date=October 20, 1995 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=November 2, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307165351/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7D61538F933A15753C1A963958260 |archive-date=March 7, 2012 }}</ref>


]-winning author ] was an S.H.S. faculty member and taught English at Stuyvesant before the publication of his memoirs '']'', '']'', and '']''. ''Teacher Man''{{'s}} third section, titled ''Coming Alive in Room 205'', concerns McCourt's time at Stuyvesant, and mentions a number of students and fellow faculty.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04yagoda.html?_r=1&ex=1136350800&en=46ebc49f10156457&ei=5070&oref=slogin |title=The Stuyvesant Test |author=Ben Yagoda |date=December 4, 2005 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=April 28, 2008 |archive-date=September 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924065319/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/the-stuyvesant-test.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Former ] member ] (1982) graduated from the high school,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gothamist.com/2005/07/26/eva_moskowitz_city_council_member.php |title=Eva Moskowitz, City Council Member |first=Jen |last=Chung |work=Gothamist |date=July 26, 2005 |access-date=April 11, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150421221049/http://gothamist.com/2005/07/26/eva_moskowitz_city_council_member.php |archive-date=April 21, 2015 }}</ref> as did the creator of the ] protocol, ] (1993).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bitconjurer.org/resume.txt |title=Resume |first=Bram |last=Cohen |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708090755/http://bramcohen.com/resume.txt |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |access-date=April 3, 2014}}</ref> A notable ] medalist from the school was foil fencer ], and a notable coach was two-time fencing Olympian ].<ref name=autogenerated6a> Paul Winfield (October 23, 1977). , ''The New York Times''; accessed February 8, 2018.</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/sports/albert-axelrod-83-a-champion-in-fencing.html |title=Albert Axelrod, 83, a Champion in Fencing |first=Douglas |last=Martin |date=March 5, 2004 |newspaper=New York Times |access-date=March 31, 2014 |archive-date=April 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410150833/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/05/sports/albert-axelrod-83-a-champion-in-fencing.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Economist ] was also a student of Stuyvesant High School, but dropped out early at age 17 because of financial difficulties and problems in his home.<ref name="courage">{{cite web|last=Graglia|first=Nino A.|title=Profile in courage|url=http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/01winter/review.html|work=Hoover Institution Newsletter|publisher=Hoover Institution|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050909080051/http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/01winter/review.html|archive-date=September 9, 2005|date=Winter 2001}}</ref> ]n (and former ]) journalist / propagandist ], known in the West for his numerous appearances during the 1980s and 1990s on the ] late evening program ], with ], on the topic: ] and influential longtime daytime talk show host / moderator ], was also a student of Stuyvesant High School.
*In an episode of '']'', a female Stuyvesant student is murdered. The investigation leads Detectives ] and ] to the school, where they interview her classmates.


Four Nobel laureates are Stuyvesant alumni (plus one who shares a Nobel Prize with a coalition):<ref name=AClassApart/>
*The 2004 ] featured an ad campaign with a stylized depiction of the school entitled ''Fast Times at Stuyvesant High''.
* ] (1941)&nbsp;– ], 1958<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1958/lederberg-bio.html |title=Joshua Lederberg&nbsp;— The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958 – Biography |year=1958 |access-date=October 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024121336/http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1958/lederberg-bio.html |archive-date=October 24, 2007 }}</ref>
* ] (1944)&nbsp;– ], 1993<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0726/features/human.shtml |title=The human equation |first=Lydialyle |last=Gibson |journal=The University of Chicago Magazine |date=May–June 2007 |volume=99 |issue=5 |access-date=October 31, 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013070351/http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0726/features/human.shtml |archive-date=October 13, 2007 }}</ref>
* ] (1954)&nbsp;– ], 1981<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=11&page=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119031913/http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=11&page=1 |archive-date=January 19, 2008 |title=Roald Hoffmann's land between chemistry, poetry and philosophy |access-date=October 31, 2007}}</ref>
* ] (1963) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news/journal/journal-o/winter-2005/nobility.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527155319/http://cumc.columbia.edu/news/journal/journal-o/winter-2005/nobility.html |archive-date=May 27, 2007 |title=Richard Axel: One of the Nobility in Science |first=Robin |last=Eisner |journal=P&S |date=Winter 2005 |access-date=October 31, 2007}}</ref>


==See also==
*The entrance to the high school is visible in the ]' music video for the song ''Ch-Check It Out''. It is seen in the beginning of the video, where the three rappers are walking down the TriBeCa Bridge.
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==References==
*] of the Beastie Boys wears a boy's red Stuyvesant High School Physical Education leader T-shirt in the video for ''].'' This has occasionally sparked a rumor that one or all of the Boys attended Stuyvesant. They did not;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/musicgoesglobal/na/mmiked.html|publisher=]|year=2001|title=Q&A With Mike D. of the Beastie Boys|first=Alex|last=Smith}}</ref> however ], the band's original drummer, did.
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==Further reading==
*Stuyvesant has been chronicled in popular literature based in New York City. The ] novels '']'' and '']'' are prominent examples of this trend.
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* {{cite book |chapter=Out of the Blue |title=At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories |first=Alexander |last=Epstein |editor1-last=Erman |editor1-first=Sam |editor2-last=Bull |editor2-first=Chris |location=New York |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |year=2002 |pages=232ff |isbn=978-1-56025-427-0 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/atgroundzeroyoun00bull |url=https://archive.org/details/atgroundzeroyoun00bull |url-access=limited }}
*Certain characters on the primetime television show '']'' spoke of their alma mater Stuyvesant HS.
* {{cite web |url=http://www.abacusguide.com/stuyvesant_high_school.htm |title=Abacus Guide to Stuyvesant High School |first=Emily |last=Glickman |publisher=Abacus Guide Educational Consulting |year=2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050407041310/http://www.abacusguide.com/stuyvesant_high_school.htm |archive-date=April 7, 2005 |access-date=March 9, 2006}}

* {{cite magazine |url=http://www.alternet.org/story/14073/fallout%3A_the_hidden_environmental_consequences_of_9_11 |title=Fallout: The Hidden Environmental Consequences of 9/11 |first=Juan |last=Gonzalez |magazine=In These Times |date=September 10, 2002 |access-date=March 9, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081019213444/http://www.alternet.org/story/14073/fallout%3A_the_hidden_environmental_consequences_of_9_11/ |archive-date=October 19, 2008 |url-status=dead }}
*On the primetime television show '']'', "Holly", played by ], attended Stuyvesant before starting and quitting college.
* {{cite book |title=A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools |first=Alec |last=Klein |location=New York |publisher=Simon & Schuster |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7432-9944-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/classapartprodig00klei }}

* {{cite book |title=Teacher Man |first=Frank |last=McCourt |author-link=Frank McCourt |location=New York |publisher=Scribner |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-7432-4377-3|title-link=Teacher Man }}
*A ], entitled ''The Ticket'', is currently being filmed about the Student Union elections at Stuyvesant.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suhfilms.com|title=THE TICKET (a documentary film)|publisher=Suh Films|accessdate=2006-05-24}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=Stuyvesant High School: The First 100 Years |last=Meyer |first=Susann E. |location=New York |publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant |year=2005}}
*Alec Klein '85, a reporter for the ], is currently researching a book "which strives to explain what sets Stuyvesant apart from other high schools".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Alumni Spectator|month=Spring|year=2006|publisher=Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association}}</ref>
* {{cite web |url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/asbestos_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610406 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070529025841/http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/asbestos_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610406 |archive-date=May 29, 2007 |title=Monitoring Data: Stuyvesant High (North Side) |publisher=United States Environmental Protection Agency |access-date=March 9, 2006}}

* {{cite web |url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/bulk_dust_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610308 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040125082038/http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/bulk_dust_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610308 |archive-date=January 25, 2004 |title=Monitoring Data: Stuyvesant High School |publisher=United States Environmental Protection Agency |access-date=March 9, 2006}}
* In 2006, a controversial article about the different sexual orientations in Stuyvesant and how they represent a national trend appeared in ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/15589/|title=The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School|author=Alex Morris|publisher=New York Magazine|year=2006|accessed=2006-03-29}}</ref>
* {{cite book |title=With Their Eyes: September 11 – The View from a High School at Ground Zero |first=Annie |last=Thoms |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-06-051718-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/withtheireyessep00thom }}

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* The 2006 autobiographical young adult novel, ''The Notebook Girls'', highlights the lives of four Stuyvesant students in the form of a journal.

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*{{cite web|url=http://www.alternet.org/911oneyearlater/14073/|title=Fallout: The Hidden Environmental Consequences of 9/11|first=Juan|last=Gonzalez|publisher=In These Times|year=2002|accessed=2006-03-09}}
*{{cite web|url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/bulk_dust_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610308|title=Monitoring Data: Stuyvesant High School|author=US EPA|accessed=2006-03-09}}
*{{cite web|url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/asbestos_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610406|title=Monitoring Data: Stuyvesant High (North Side)|author=US EPA|accessed=2006-03-09}}
*{{cite web|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/15589/|title=The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School|author=Alex Morris|publisher=New York Magazine|year=2006|accessed=2006-03-29}}

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Specialized high school in New York City

Stuyvesant High School
Address
345 Chambers Street
New York City, New York 10282
United States
Coordinates40°43′04″N 74°00′50″W / 40.7179°N 74.0138°W / 40.7179; -74.0138
Information
School typeSelective public high school
MottoLatin: Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia
(For knowledge and wisdom)
Established1904; 121 years ago (1904)
School districtNew York City Department of Education
School numberM475
CEEB code334070
NCES School ID360007702877
PrincipalSeung Yu
Faculty162.92 (on FTE basis)
Enrollment3,334 (2022–23)
Student to teacher ratio20.46
Athletics conferencePSAL
MascotPegleg Pete
NicknameStuy
Team namePeglegs
USNWR ranking26
NewspaperThe Spectator
YearbookThe Indicator
Nobel laureates4
Websitestuy.enschool.org Edit this at Wikidata

Stuyvesant High School (/ˈstaɪvəsənt/ STY-və-sənt) is a co-ed, public, college-preparatory, specialized high school in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The school, commonly referred to among its students, faculty and alumni as "Stuy" (/staɪ/ STY), specializes in developing talent in math, science and technology. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, specialized schools offer tuition-free, advanced classes to New York City high school students.

Stuyvesant High School was established in 1904 initially as an all-boys school in the East Village of lower Manhattan. Starting in 1934, admission for all applicants was contingent on passing an entrance examination. In 1969, after 65 years with an all-male student body, the high school started permanently accepting female students. In 1992, Stuyvesant High School moved to its current location at Battery Park City to accommodate more students. The old campus houses several smaller high schools and charter schools.

Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, required for the New York City Public Schools system. Every March, approximately 800 to 850 applicants with the highest SHSAT scores are accepted, out of about 30,000 students who apply to Stuyvesant.

Extracurricular activities at the school include a Math Team, Speech and Debate Team, a yearly theater competition and various student publications including a newspaper, a yearbook, and literary magazines. Stuyvesant has educated four Nobel laureates. Notable alumni include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, economist Thomas Sowell, mathematician Paul Cohen, chemist Roald Hoffmann, biologist Eric Lander, Oscar-winning actor James Cagney, comedian Billy Eichner, young adult fiction author Jordan Sonnenblick, and chess grandmaster Robert Hess.

History

Planning

The then independent city of Brooklyn's Superintendent of Schools, William Henry Maxwell, had first written in a report about the need to construct technical / scientific oriented secondary schools in Brooklyn and throughout New York state in 1887. This would follow other examples of specialized high schools such as the Baltimore Manual Training School, now the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. The municipal architect and engineer C. B. J. Snyder, who designed many of the city's public school buildings, had repeatedly mentioned the need for more basic mathematical and scientific preparation in New York's growing numbers of public secondary schools in the late 19th century. The first such school in the city was Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, which opened in 1893. By 1899, now positioned as the newly-formed City of Greater New York's Superintendent of Public Schools, Maxwell was advocating for another specialized high school across the river in the newly established borough of Manhattan.

In January 1903 Maxwell and Snyder submitted a report to the New York City Board of Education in which they suggested the creation of a school in Manhattan. The Board of Education approved the plans in April 1904. They suggested that the school occupy a plot on East 15th Street, west of First Avenue. However, that plot did not yet contain a school building, and so the new school was initially housed within Public School #47's former building at 225 East 23rd Street. The Board of Education also wrote that the new school would be "designated as the Stuyvesant High School, as being reminiscent of the locality." Stuyvesant Square, Stuyvesant Street, and later Stuyvesant Town (which was built subsequently in 1947) are all located near the proposed 15th Street school building. All of these locations were named after Peter Stuyvesant (1610–1672), the last Dutch Director (governor) of New Netherland (and its major port town of New Amsterdam), 1647–1665, and owner of the area's Stuyvesant Farm. The appellation of a specific historical name was selected to avoid confusion with Brooklyn's earlier Manual Training High School.

Opening and boys' school

Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan's first specialized high school. At the time of its opening, the school consisted of 155 students and 12 teachers.

At first, the school provided a core curriculum of "English, Latin, modern languages, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, music," as well as a physical education program and a more specialized track of "woodworking, metalworking, mechanical drawing, freehand drawing." However, in June 1908, Maxwell announced that the school's core curriculum would be separated for the rest, and that a discrete trade school would operate in the Stuyvesant building during the evening. Thereafter, Stuyvesant became renowned for excellence in math and science. In 1909, eighty percent of the school's alumni went to college, compared to other schools, which only sent 25% to 50% of their graduates to college.

By 1919 officials started restricting admission based on academic achievement. Stuyvesant implemented a double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students: some students would attend in the morning, while others would take classes in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. These double sessions ran until Spring 1957. The school implemented a system of entrance examinations in 1934. The examination program, developed with the assistance of Columbia University, was expanded in 1938 to include the newly founded Bronx High School of Science.

Co-educational school

In 1967 Alice de Rivera filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education, alleging that she had been banned from taking Stuyvesant's entrance exam because of her gender. The lawsuit was decided in the student's favor, and Stuyvesant was required to accept female students. The first female students were accepted in September 1969, when Stuyvesant offered admission to 14 girls and enrolled 12 of them. The next year, 223 female students were accepted to Stuyvesant. By 2015, young women represented 43% of the total student body.

In 1972, the New York State Legislature in the state capital of Albany passed the Hecht–Calandra Act, which designated four city-wide selective specialized public high schools in New York City of: Brooklyn Technical High School, Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and the High School of Music & Art (now renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School) as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for a uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant High. The exam, named the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), tested the mathematical and verbal abilities of students who were applying to any of the specialized high schools. The only exception was for applicants to the music and arts program at LaGuardia High School, who were accepted by audition rather than examination.

September 11 attacks (World Trade Center, 2001)

The current school building in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan since 1992, is about a half-mile / 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away from the site of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The school was evacuated during the attack. Although the smoke cloud from the World Trade Center temporarily covered the building, there was no structural damage, and there were no reports of physical injuries. Less than an hour after the collapse of the second World Trade Center tower, concern over a bomb threat at the school prompted an evacuation of the surrounding area, as reported live on the Today show. When classes resumed on September 21, 2001, students were moved to Brooklyn Technical High School while the Stuyvesant building served as a base of operations for rescue and recovery workers. This caused serious congestion at Brooklyn Tech, and required the students to attend in two shifts, with the Stuyvesant students attending the evening shift. Normal classes resumed nearly a month after the attack, on October 9.

A southward view of Stuyvesant High School from Hudson River Park. The Hudson River is seen at right, and the skyscrapers of the new World Trade Center can be seen in the background.
A southward view of Stuyvesant High School from Hudson River Park, with the new World Trade Center in the distance

Nine alumni were killed in the World Trade Center attack. On October 2, 2001, the school newspaper, The Spectator, added a 24-page section with student photos, reflections and stories. On November 20, 2001, the magazine was distributed for free to the greater metropolitan area, enclosed within 830,000 copies of The New York Times. In the months after the attacks, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after September 11, 2001, and complile them into a collection of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11—The View from a High School at Ground Zero.

Later history

During the 2003–2004 school year, Stuyvesant celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a full year of activities. Events included a procession from the 15th Street building to the Chambers Street one, a meeting of the National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology, an all-class reunion, and visits and speeches from notable alumni.

In the 21st century, keynote graduation speakers have included Attorney General Eric Holder (2001), United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (2004), comedian Conan O'Brien (2006), actor George Takei (2016), and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (2018).

Buildings

15th Street building

A grayscale postcard showing the Old Stuyvesant Campus in Manhattan's East Village. The postcard's vantage point is from down the street from the old building and depicts the five-story stone facade of the building.
Postcard black and white art featuring the 15th Street old Stuyvesant High School building, of 1905–1907, now known since 1992 as the Old Stuyvesant Campus housing several smaller secondary and charter schools

In August 1904, the Board of Education authorized municipal architect and engineer Snyder to design a new facility for Stuyvesant High School at 15th Street. The new high school structure was designed in the then popular Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical / Classical Revival architecture for its grand imposing style. It would be shaped like the letter "H", with two interior light courts; the shape also allowed natural light to illuminate more inside windows and parts of the building. The cornerstone for the new building was laid in September 1905. Approximately $1.5 million was spent on constructing the school, including $600,000 for the monumental stone exterior alone. It was considered one of the most expensive public buildings or school structures ever built up to that time in New York, and considered a point of civic pride in the early 20th century. In 1907, the Stuyvesant High School moved to the new building on 15th Street. The new building had a capacity of 2,600 students, more than double that of the existing previous temporary school building of the last few years at 23rd Street. It contained 25 classrooms devoted to skilled industrial trades such as joinery, as well as 53 regular classrooms and a 1,600-seat auditorium.

A view of the facade of the Old Stuyvesant Campus in 2021. There have been few modifications to the facade compared to the 1909 postcard view. The school name remains engraved in the pediment.
Modern color photograph of former S.H.S., 1907–1992, now renamed The Old Stuyvesant Campus on East 15th Street, as seen in 2021

A half-century later, uring the 1950s, the building underwent a $2 million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries, and cafeterias.

Unfortunately through the 1970s and 1980s, when New York City municipal government and especially the public schools system, in general, were marked by violence, vandalism / graffiti and low academic grades among their students, Stuyvesant High still had an excellent academic reputation for being a top-notch public high school, and was still graduating well-prepared and accomplished alumni, (judging from their track record now four decades later). However, the 1905–1907 school building was deteriorating due to overuse and lack of proper maintenance. A New York Times daily newspaper expose report stated that the building had "held out into old age with minimal maintenance and benign neglect until its peeling paint, creaking floorboards and antiquated laboratories became an embarrassment." The five-story building could not cater adequately to the several thousand students, leading the New York City Board of Education to make plans to move the school to a new building in Battery Park City, near lower Manhattan's Financial District. The 15th Street building remains in use over 32 years later as the "Old Stuyvesant Campus," housing three smaller schools: the Institute for Collaborative Education, the High School for Health Professions and Human Services, and lower grades of PS 226.

Current building

In the 83rd year of its history of 1987, the 105th Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch (1924–2013, served 1978–1989), and 52nd Governor of New York State Mario Cuomo (1932–2015, served 1983–1994), jointly announced the coming construction project of a third new Stuyvesant High School building to be situated in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan. The Battery Park City Authority donated 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of land for the new building. The authority was not required to hire the lowest bidder, which meant that the construction process could be accelerated in return for a higher cost. The building was designed by the architectural firms of Gruzen Samton Steinglass and Cooper, Robertson & Partners. The structure's main architect, Alexander Cooper of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, had also designed much of the surrounding development of Battery Park City.

View of Stuyvesant High School's facade from about a quarter-mile away. Most of the facade is orange brick, but the three-story entranceway at the center of the image is made of metal.The facade as seen from Battery Park CityView of the Tribeca Bridge, a pedestrian bridge, from the southeast corner of Chambers and West Streets. The bridge connects the east side of West Street to Stuyvesant High School on the street's west side.The new building (left) as seen from the corner of Chambers and West streets. The Tribeca Bridge (right) is used as one of the building's entrances.View of the Tribeca Bridge, a pedestrian bridge, with students entering Stuyvesant High School using the bridge, soon after its openingStudents entering Stuyvesant High School using the Tribeca Bridge, soon after its opening

Stuyvesant's principal at the time, Abraham Baumel, visited the country's most advanced laboratories to gather ideas about what to include in the new Stuyvesant building's 12 laboratory rooms. The new 10-story building also included banks of escalators, glass-walled studios on the roof, and a shorter four-story northern wing with a swimming pool, five gymnasiums, and an auditorium. Construction began in 1989. When it finally opened five years later in 1992, the building was New York City's first new high school building in ten years. The new downtown Stuyvesant Campus cost $150 million, making it the most expensive high school building ever built in the city at the time. The S.H.S. Library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City.

Shortly after the third S.H.S. building was completed, the $10 million Tribeca Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street. The building was designed to be fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is listed as such by the New York City Department of Education. As a result, the building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a school for students with multiple disabilities who are between the ages of 15 and 21.

In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor was dedicated to Richard Rothenberg, the S.H.S. mathematics department chairman who had died from a sudden heart attack earlier that year. Sculptor Madeleine Segall-Marx was commissioned to create the Rothenberg Memorial in his honor. She created a mathematics wall entitled "Celebration", consisting of 50 wooden boxes—one for each year of his life—behind a glass wall, featuring mathematical concepts and reflections on Rothenberg.

In 2006, Robert Ira Lewy of the class of 1960 made a gift worth $1 million to found the Dr. Robert Ira Lewy M.D. Multimedia Center. and donated his personal library in 2007. In late 2010, the high school's library merged with the New York Public Library (NYPL) network in a four-year pilot program, in which all students of the school received a S.H.S. / N.Y.P.L. student library card so they could check books out of the school library or any other public library in the NYPL system.

An unfortunate escalator collapse at Stuyvesant High School on September 13, 2018, 26 years after it was built / installed, injured 10 people, including 8 students. As a result, various escalators remained closed off to students for examination / study and renovation for the next few years.

Mnemonics

A wall in the school decorated with a mural named "Mnemonics." The mural was created in 1992 by Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel.During construction, the Battery Park City Authority, the Percent for Art Program of the City of New York, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York City Board of Education commissioned Mnemonics, an artwork by public artists Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel. Four hundred hollow glass blocks were dispersed randomly from the basement to the tenth floor of the new Stuyvesant High School building. Each block contains relics providing evidence of geographical, historical, natural, cultural, and social worlds, from antiquity to the present time. The blocks are set into the hallway walls and scattered throughout the building. Each block is inscribed with a brief description of its contents or context. The items displayed include pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building, fragments of monuments from around the world, memorabilia from each of the 88 years' history of the old building, a Revolutionary War button, water from the Nile and Ganges Rivers, fragments of the Mayan pyramids, and various chemical compounds. Empty blocks were also installed to be filled with items chosen by each of the graduating classes up through 2080. The S.H.S. installation later received the Award for Excellence in Design from the Art Commission of the City of New York.

Transportation

The New York City Subway's Chambers Street station, served by the 1, ​2, and ​3 trains, is located nearby, as well as the Chambers Street–World Trade Center station served by the A, ​C, and ​E trains. Additionally, New York City Bus's M9, M20 and M22 routes stop near Stuyvesant. Students residing a certain distance from the school are provided full-fare or half-fare student MetroCards for public transportation at the start of each term, based on how far away the student resides from the school. As of 2024, students are provided with OMNY cards that offer four free rides throughout the day, as well as public transportation access over the weekend.

Enrollment

Student body composition as of 2022
Race and ethnicity Total
Asian 71.7% 71.7 
White 18.3% 18.3 
Hispanic 3.8% 3.8 
Two or more Races 3.5% 3.5 
Black 1.4% 1.4 
American Indian/Alaska Native 0.7% 0.7 
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.6% 0.6 
Sex Total
Male 58% 58 
Female 42% 42 
Income Total
Economically disadvantaged 48% 48 

Entrance examination

Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of over 3,000 students and is open to residents of New York City entering ninth or tenth grade. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the three-hour Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, which is administered annually. Approximately 28,000 students took the test in 2017. The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include eight of New York's nine specialized high schools. The test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant has consistently been higher than that needed for admission to the other schools using the test. Admission is currently based on an individual's score on the examination and the pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Ninth- and rising tenth–grade students are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, but far fewer students are admitted that way. The test covers math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension) skills. Former Mayor John Lindsay and community activist group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) have argued that the exam may be biased against African and Hispanic Americans, while attempts to eliminate the exam have been criticized as discriminatory against Asian Americans.

A view of the steel-and-glass main entrance to Stuyvesant High School. There is a sign above the entrance with the school's name in large capital letters.
Main entrance to Stuyvesant High School third buildings / campus on Chambers Street in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan since 1992, with open two-stories ground level gap, as seen in 2021.

Demographics and SHSAT controversy

For most of the 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant High was not only all-male (1904–1969), but also heavily Jewish. A significant influx of Asian students began in the 1970s; by 2019, 74% of the Stuyvesant students in attendance were Asian-American. In the 2013 academic year, the student body was 72.43% Asian, 21.44% Caucasian, 1.03% African American, 2.34% Hispanic, and 3% unknown/other. The paucity of Black and Hispanic students at Stuyvesant High has often been an issue for some city administrators. In 1971, then 103rd New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay (1921–2000, served 1966–1973), argued that the test was culturally biased against black and Hispanic students and sought to implement an affirmative action program. However, protests by parents forced the plan to be scrapped and led to the passage of the Hecht-Calandra Act, in the New York State Legislature which preserved admissions by examination only. A small number of students judged to be economically disadvantaged and who came within a few points of the cut-off score were given an extra chance to pass the test.

Community activist group ACORN International published two reports in 1996, titled Secret Apartheid and Secret Apartheid II. In these reports, ACORN called the SHSAT "permanently suspect" and described it as a "product of an institutional racism," saying that black and Hispanic students did not have access to proper test preparation materials. Along with then New York Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew (born 1950, N.Y.C. public schools chancellor, 1995–1999), they began an initiative for more diversity in the city's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding the SHSAT be suspended altogether until the city's Board of Education was able to show all children have had access to appropriate materials to prepare themselves. Students published several editorials in response to ACORN's claims, stating the admissions system at the school was based on student merit, not race.

A number of students take preparatory courses offered by private tutorial companies such as The Princeton Review and Kaplan, Inc. to perform better on the SHSAT, often leaving those unable to afford such classes at a disadvantage. To bridge this gap and boost minority admissions, the Board of Education started the Math Science Institute in 1995, a free program to prepare students for the admissions test. Students attend preparatory classes through the program, now known as the Specialized High School Institute (also known as DREAM), at several schools around the city from the summer after sixth grade until the eighth-grade exam. Despite the implementation of these free programs for improving underprivileged children's enrollment, black and Hispanic enrollment continued to decline. After further expansion of those free test prep programs, there was still no increase in percentages to the attendance of black and Hispanic children. As of 2019, fewer than 1% of freshman openings were given to black students, while over 66% were given to Asian-American students, most of whom had similar socioeconomic backgrounds to those of the black students.

The New York City Department of Education reported in 2003 that public per student spending at Stuyvesant High School is slightly lower than the city average. Stuyvesant also receives private contributions from alumni, retired faculty, charitable foundations and educational grants to build up a school endowment.

Academics

The college-preparatory curriculum at Stuyvesant mostly includes four years of English, history, and laboratory-based sciences. The sciences courses include requisite biology, chemistry, and physics classes. Students also take four years of mathematics. Students also take three years of a single foreign language; a semester each of introductory art, music, health, and technical drawing; one semester of computer science; and two lab-based technology courses. Several exemptions from technology education exist for seniors. Stuyvesant offers students a selection of elective courses, uncluding astronomy, New York City history, Women's Voices, and Computer Graphics Design in the Computer Science Area. Most students complete the New York City Regents courses by junior year and take calculus during their senior year. However, the school offers math courses through differential equations for the more advanced students. A year of technical drawing was formerly required; students learned how to draft by hand in its first semester and how to draft using a computer in the second. Now, students take a one-semester compacted version of the former drafting course, as well as a semester of introductory computer science. For the class of 2015, the one-semester computer science course was replaced with a two-semester course.

The escalators from the seventh to ninth floors. A Stuyvesant art class created the banner in the background.

As a specialized high school, Stuyvesant offers a range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses. These courses focus on math, science, history, English, or foreign languages. This gives students various opportunities to earn college credit. AP computer science students can also take three additional computer programming courses after the completion of the AP course: systems level programming, computer graphics, and software development. In addition, there is a one-year computer networking class which can earn students Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include Spanish, French, German, Latin, Chinese and Japanese. In 2005, the school also started offering courses in Arabic after the school's Muslim Student Association had raised funds to support the course. Stuyvesant's biology and geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology, human physiology, medical ethics, medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, anthropology and sociobiology, vertebrate zoology, laboratory techniques, medical human genetics, botany, the molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and psychology. The chemistry and physics departments include classes in organic chemistry, physical chemistry, astronomy, engineering mechanics, and electronics.

The English Department offers students courses in British and classical literature, Shakespearean literature, science fiction, philosophy, existentialism, debate, acting, journalism, creative writing, and poetry. The Social Studies core requires two years of global history (or one year of global followed by one year of European history), one year of American history, as well as a semester each of economics and government. Humanities electives include American foreign policy; civil and criminal law, prejudice and persecution, and race, ethnicity and gender issues.

In 2004, Stuyvesant High entered into an agreement with the City College of New York (C.C.N.Y. – part of the larger City University of New York), which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit but taught by S.H.S. faculty. Some of these courses include linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history.

Prior to the 2005 revision of the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of 1408 out of 1600 (685 in the verbal section of the test, 723 in the math section). In 2010, the average score on the SAT for Stuyvesant students was 2087 out of 2400, while the class of 2013 had an average SAT score of 2096. As of 2023, Stuyvesant students' average SAT score was 1510 of 1600 points. Stuyvesant also administers more Advanced Placement exams than supposedly any other high school in the world, as well as the highest number of students who reach the AP courses' "mastery level". As of 2018, there are 31 AP classes offered, with a little more than half of all students taking at least one AP class, and about 98% of students pass their AP tests.

Extracurricular activities

View of the end of the Tribeca pedestrian bridge. There are four steel-and-glass doors in the center of the picture, marking the entrance to the school. The bridge is entirely enclosed by glass panes with metal beams on three sides, as well as a steel floor.
Entrance from the Tribeca Bridge

Sports

Stuyvesant fields 32 athletics varsity teams, including the swimming, golf, bowling, volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, fencing, baseball/softball, American handball, tennis, track/cross country, cricket, football, and lacrosse teams. In addition, Stuyvesant has ultimate teams for the boys' varsity, boys' junior varsity, and girls' varsity divisions.

15 years after moving to Chambers Street in Battery Park City, in September 2007, the Stuyvesant High football team was given a home field at Pier 40, on the Hudson River waterfront of the westside of Manhattan situated north of the school at Houston Street and West Street. In 2008, the baseball team was granted use of the pier after construction and delivery of an artificial turf pitching mound that met Public Schools Athletic League specifications. Stuyvesant also has its own swimming pool, but it does not contain its own running track or tennis court.

Student government

The student body of Stuyvesant High School is represented by the Stuyvesant Student Union, a student government. It comprises a group of students (elected each year for each grade) who promote and manage extracurricular activities (clubs and publications), by organizing out-of-school activity such as city excursions or fundraisers, and provide a voice to the student body in all discussion of school policy with the administration.

Clubs and publications

Stuyvesant allows students to join clubs, publications, and teams under a system similar to that of many colleges. As of 2015, the school had 150 student clubs.

The Spectator

Main article: The Spectator (Stuyvesant High School)

The Spectator is Stuyvesant's official in-school newspaper, which is published biweekly and is independent from the school administration and faculty. There are over 250 students who help with its publication. At the beginning of the fall and spring terms, there are recruitments, but interested students may join at any time.

Founded in 1915 (and now 109 years old), The Spectator is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications. It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake; the Columbia University's Columbia Daily Spectator, and has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's well-known nation-wide Columbia Scholastic Press Association. founded 1925.

The Voice

The Voice, May 1977

The Voice was founded in the 1973–1974 academic year as an independent publication only loosely sanctioned by school officials. It had the appearance of a magazine and gained a large readership. The Voice attracted a considerable amount of controversy and a First Amendment Constitutional lawsuit, after which the administration forced it to go off-campus and to turn commercial in 1975–1976.

At the beginning of the 1975–1976 academic year, The Voice decided to publish the results of a confidential random survey. The administration refused to permit The Voice to distribute the questionnaire, and the Board of Education refused to intervene. The then editor-in-chief of The Voice, brought a First Amendment challenge to this decision to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in front of Judge Constance Baker Motley.

Relying on the 1969 U.S. Supreme Court holding in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District that "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression", Motley ordered the New York City Board of Education to permit the distribution of the survey to the juniors and seniors. However, Judge Motley's ruling was overturned on appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. There Judge J. Edward Lumbard, joined by Judge Murray Gurfein and over dissent by third Judge Walter R. Mansfield, held that the distribution of the questionnaires was properly disallowed by the administration. The higher level U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review.

SING!

A black-and-white playbill for the SING V program in 1977. There are two double-black-outlined boxes on a white background. The top box text is "the STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL UNION proudly presents," then the icon for SING V in stencil letters, followed by the performance dates. The bottom box, which contains three-quarter circles at its corners, consists of a crude sketch of a backstage area.
SING V program, 1977

The annual theater competition known as SING! pits seniors, juniors, and "soph-frosh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in a contest to put on the best performance. SING! started in 1947 at Midwood High School in Brooklyn and has expanded to many New York City high schools since then. SING! at Stuyvesant started as a small event in 1973, and since then, has grown to a school-wide event; in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, directed, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from being members of the production's casts, choruses, or costume and tech crews to Step, Hip-Hop, Swing, Modern, Bolly, Flow, Tap or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late January to February and ends in final performances on three nights in March/April. Scoring is done on each night's performances and the winner is determined by the overall total. In 2023, soph-frosh won SING! for the first time in the tradition's fifty-one year history.

Reputation

The Stuyvesant High School has produced many notable alumni, including four Nobel laureates. As of 2024, U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked Stuyvesant as 2nd among New York City high schools and 21st among STEM high schools. In December 2007, The Wall Street Journal studied the freshman classes at eight selective colleges in the U.S. and reported that Stuyvesant sent 67 students to these schools, comprising 9.9% of its 674 seniors. In recent years, Stuyvesant High’s student newspaper has reported on college admissions of the graduating classes, with the class of 2021 having 133 students offered admission to Ivy League institutions.

U.S. News & World Report included Stuyvesant on its list of "Best High Schools" published in December 2009, ranking 31st. In its 2010 progress report, the New York City Department of Education assigned S.H.S. an "A", the highest possible grade.

Stuyvesant has had the second highest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, behind Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. From 2002 to 2010, Stuyvesant has produced 103 semi-finalists and 13 finalists on the Intel Science Talent Search, the second most of any secondary school in the United States behind the Bronx High School of Science. In 2014, Stuyvesant had 11 semi-finalists for the Intel Search, the highest number of any school in the U.S.

In the 2010s, exam schools, including Stuyvesant, have been the subject of studies questioning their academic effectiveness. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) economists compared high school outcomes for Stuyvesant students who barely passed the SHSAT score required for admission, to those of applicants just below that score, using the latter as a natural control group of peers who attended other schools. The study found no discernible average difference in the two groups' later performance on New York state exams.

Notable people

Main article: List of Stuyvesant High School people See also: Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni

Notable scientists among Stuyvesant alumni include mathematicians Bertram Kostant (1945) and Paul Cohen (1950), string theorist Brian Greene (1980), physicist Lisa Randall (1980), and genomic researcher Eric Lander (1974). Other prominent alumni include civil rights leader Bob Moses, MAD Magazine editor Nick Meglin (1953), entertainers such as songwriter and Steely Dan founder Walter Becker, Thelonious Monk (1935), and actors Lucy Liu (1986), Tim Robbins (1976), and James Cagney (1918), comedian Paul Reiser (1973), playwright Arthur M. Jolly (1987), sports anchor Mike Greenberg (1985), and Columbia University, early NBA and minor league pro basketball player and bookmaker Jack Molinas (1949). In business, government and politics, former United States Attorney General Eric Holder in the Obama presidential administration (1969) is a Stuyvesant alumnus, as are 2008 presidential election campaign manager and later presidential administration Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama David Axelrod (1972) and former adviser to earlier President Bill Clinton, of Dick Morris (1964).

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt was an S.H.S. faculty member and taught English at Stuyvesant before the publication of his memoirs Angela's Ashes, 'Tis, and Teacher Man. Teacher Man's third section, titled Coming Alive in Room 205, concerns McCourt's time at Stuyvesant, and mentions a number of students and fellow faculty. Former New York City Council member Eva Moskowitz (1982) graduated from the high school, as did the creator of the BitTorrent protocol, Bram Cohen (1993). A notable Olympic Games medalist from the school was foil fencer Albert Axelrod, and a notable coach was two-time fencing Olympian Herb Cohen. Economist Thomas Sowell was also a student of Stuyvesant High School, but dropped out early at age 17 because of financial difficulties and problems in his home. Russian (and former Soviet Union) journalist / propagandist Vladimir Pozner Jr., known in the West for his numerous appearances during the 1980s and 1990s on the ABC News late evening program Nightline, with Ted Koppel, on the topic: U.S.–Soviet Space Bridge and influential longtime daytime talk show host / moderator Phil Donahue, was also a student of Stuyvesant High School.

Four Nobel laureates are Stuyvesant alumni (plus one who shares a Nobel Prize with a coalition):

See also

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