:Bronx High School of Science
{{short description|Specialized high school in New York City}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}}
{{Infobox school
| name = Bronx High School of Science
| logo = BxSci Logo New.jpg
| logo_size = 150px
| image = BronxScience.jpg
| caption = Bronx High School of Science in July 2006
| address = 75 W 205th St
| city = Bronx
| state = New York
| zipcode = 10468
| country = United States
| coordinates = {{Coord|40|52|42|N|73|53|27|W|region:US-NY_type:edu|display=inline,title}}
| type = Public, selective school
| established = {{Start date and age|1938}}
| founder = Morris Meister
| district = New York City Department of Education
| schoolnumber = X445
| us_nces_school_id = {{NCES School ID|360008701922|school_name=BRONX HIGH SCHOOL OF SCIENCE (THE)|ref_name=NCES|access_date=March 8, 2019}}
| enrollment = 2,951 (2022–2023)
| teaching_staff = 141.42 {{FTE}}
| campus = City: Large
| conference = PSAL
| affiliation = National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools
| motto = Inquire, Discover, Create
| mascot = Wolverines
| colors = Green and Gold
{{Color box|green|border=darkgray}} {{Color box|gold|border=darkgray}}
| newspaper = The Science Survey
| yearbook = The Observatory
| nobel_laureates = 9
| website = {{URL|https://www.bxscience.edu/}}
}}
The Bronx High School of Science is a public specialized high school in The Bronx in New York City. It is operated by the New York City Department of Education. Admission to Bronx Science involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test.
Founded in 1938 in the Bronx, New York City, Bronx Science is located in what is now Kingsbridge Heights, also known as Jerome Park, a neighborhood in the northwest portion of the Bronx. Although originally known for its focus on mathematics and science, Bronx Science also emphasizes the humanities and social sciences.
Bronx Science has produced the most Nobel laureates of any secondary school in the world. Bronx Science alumni have also won three Turing Awards, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Nobel Prize in computer science; six National Medals of Science, the nation's highest scientific honor; and nine Pulitzer Prizes.
The Bronx High School of Science is often called Bronx Science, Bronx Sci, BX Sci, and sometimes just Science.{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lloyd-i-sederer-md/bronx-high-school-science_b_1983682.html|work=Huffington Post|first1=Lloyd I.|last1=Sederer|title=A Safe Place to Be Smart: The Bronx High School of Science|date=October 22, 2012}}{{Cite web|url=http://umassk12.net/science50/Jan50Program.pdf|title=Eighteenth Commencement Exercises|publisher=The Bronx High School of Science|date=January 30, 1950|access-date=July 21, 2014}} It was formerly called Science High and its founder, Morris Meister, is said to have frequently called the school "The High School of Science".{{Cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/mission.jsp|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130212220035/http://www.bxscience.edu/mission.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 12, 2013|title=Mission|publisher=The Bronx High School of Science|access-date=July 21, 2014}}
History
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The Bronx High School of Science was founded in 1938 as a specialized science and math high school for boys, by resolution of the New York City Panel for Educational Policy, with Dr. Morris Meister as the first principal of the school. They were given use of an antiquated Gothic-gargoyled edifice located at Creston Avenue and 184th Street, in the Fordham Road-Grand Concourse area of the Bronx. The building, built in 1918 for Evander Childs High School, had been successively occupied by Walton High School (1930) and by an annex of DeWitt Clinton High School (1935). The initial faculty were composed in part by a contingent from Stuyvesant High School.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/history/timeline.html#|title=Timeline – click on 1930s – 1937/1938|work=The Campaign for Stuyvesant – History|publisher=OurStrongBand.org|access-date=April 19, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221154110/http://www.ourstrongband.org/history/timeline.html|archive-date=February 21, 2009}}
Meister put his imprint on the school from its formation, for example selecting as school colors "green to represent chlorophyll and gold the sun, both of which are essential to the chain of life."{{Cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/about.jsp?rn=2690|title=The Bronx High School of Science|website=Bxscience.edu|date=December 31, 1999|access-date=March 10, 2016}}
From the beginning, the Parents Association and Meister campaigned for a new building. The number of students exceeded the capacity of the building on 184th Street, so the top floor of Public School 85 on Marion Avenue and 187th Street was used as the "Annex".{{Cite news|title=New Bronx School Site; Plot Set-Aside at 205th Street and Goulden Avenue (Published 1954)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/03/25/archives/new-bronx-school-site-plot-setaside-at-205th-street-and-goulden.html|work=The New York Times|date=25 March 1954|language=en}} The school started with about 150 ninth year students and 250 tenth year students, the remaining facilities of the building being used by DeWitt Clinton. As more boys began to attend Science, the Clinton contingent was gradually returned to its own main building. During their joint occupation, which lasted for two years until 1940, the two schools had separate teaching staff and classes, but the same supervision and administration.{{cite web |title=History of Bronx Science |url=https://alumni.bxscience.edu/bronx-science-history |website=Bronx Science Alumni Foundation}}
In 1946, as a result of the efforts of Meister, the faculty, and the Parents Association, the school became co-ed, giving girls of New York City equal opportunity to pursue a quality education in a specialized high school, previously denied to them. This expansion to co-education preceded its rivals Stuyvesant (1969){{cite web |first1=Kelly |last1=Vaughan |title=How Stuyvesant High School became coed |url=https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2008/12/3/21084583/how-stuyvesant-high-school-became-coed/ |website=Chalkbeat |language=en |date=3 December 2008}} and Brooklyn Tech (1972){{cite web |title=Foundation Mission & History {{!}} Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation |url=https://bthsalumni.org/about/foundation-mission-history/#:~:text=1970%3A%20Brooklyn%20Tech%20Goes%20Coed,to%20a%20coed%20high%20school. |website=bthsalumni.org |date=13 November 2021}} by more than two decades.
In 1958, after 20 years as principal of the school, Meister resigned to become the first president of the newly organized Bronx Community College.{{cite web |title=History of the College |url=http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/CollegeHistory/ |publisher=Bronx Community College |accessdate= |date=17 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207164720/http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/CollegeHistory/ |archive-date=2006-02-07 }} Meister personally selected a teacher, Dr. Alexander Taffel, to succeed him as principal.
After twenty years, plans were finally completed for a new $8 million building, which was designed by the architectural firm of Emery Roth and Sons.{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-EmeryRoth.htm |title=About the architect |publisher=Nyc-architecture.com |access-date=June 4, 2012}} The new building was on 205th Street near Bedford Park Boulevard, in a predominantly institutional area, between DeWitt Clinton High School and its large football field on one side, and Harris Field and Hunter College (now Lehman College) on the other. On March 3, 1959, under the guidance of Principal Taffel, students and faculty occupied the new building for the first time, solving the problem of how to move the books from the old library to the new by enlisting the students to each take home five library books from the old building on Friday, and return them to the new building on Monday.
The new building was equipped with more modern classrooms, laboratories, and technical studio areas. The main lobby entrance featured a {{convert|63|ft|m|adj=on}}, Venetian glass mosaic mural overhead, depicting major figures from the history of science such as Marie Curie and Charles Darwin under the protective hands of a God-like figure representing knowledge, with this quote from John Dewey: "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination." The mural, Humanities Protecting Biology, Physics, Chemistry, is an original work by Frank J. Reilly. Legions of students over the years, bemoaning the lack of swimming facilities, have sarcastically referred to the mural as "the Science swimming pool", perpetuating the untrue thesis that a choice was made to fund a mural rather than a pool in the new building.{{Cite web|url=http://alumni.bxscience.edu/?page=SchoolHistory|title=About Bronx Science|website=The Bronx High School of Science Alumni Association & Endowment Fund|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221081413/http://alumni.bxscience.edu/?page=SchoolHistory|archive-date=December 21, 2016|url-status=dead|access-date=May 2, 2017|quote=For over 50 years it has been rumored that the administration chose to fund the mural rather than a swimming pool in the new building. It’s simply not true.}}
In the first spring of the move, rumors swept the school that various Bronx youth street gangs were coming to the school, and that the Fordham Baldies would shave the hair of Science students. This never happened. Another incident did happen that spring: The first time Science girls appeared on the outdoor physical education field in gym clothes, some students from the neighboring, all-male DeWitt Clinton High School charged the separation fence between their field and the Science field. The fence held, but the female students exercised indoors for the remainder of that year.
When Bronx Science celebrated its silver anniversary in June 1963, President John F. Kennedy hailed it as "a significant and pathfinding example of a special program devoted to the development of the student gifted in science and mathematics." Kennedy had recently selected a 1943 Bronx High School of Science graduate, Harold Brown, as Director of Defense Research and Engineering; Brown would later serve as United States Secretary of Defense under President Jimmy Carter.
Academics
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File:BronxScienceProgrammingClassroom1960.jpg op code chart (upper right). Bronx High School of Science was one of the first high schools to teach computer courses. The school had a keypunch machine, students ran their programs at the Watson lab at Columbia University, and the school obtained its own computer, an IBM 1620, a year and a half later.]]
Bronx Science students take a college preparatory curriculum that includes four years of science, English, and social studies; three (usually four) years of math; two or three years of foreign language; and a year of fine arts, with required courses and a wide selection of electives, including honors and advanced placement (AP) classes, which allow students to place out of introductory college science courses. Over 100 unique courses are offered. All New York State Regents classes are offered, with the exception of earth science.{{Cite web|title=The Bronx High School of Science Course Guide 2022|url=https://www.bxscience.edu/ourpages/auto/2022/7/25/66014974/Course%20Guide%202022.pdf?rnd=1658778165980|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=October 9, 2022|publisher=The Bronx High School of Science}}
In the biological sciences, Bronx Science offers a special honors biology course, in addition to the Regents-level course, which includes additional laboratory exposure and intensive content. If students have already taken the Living Environment regents in 8th grade, they may take Regents-level or honors chemistry in freshman year. All students must take at least one year of a biological lab science at Bronx Science, a requirement that can be satisfied either by freshman biology or, if students took biology in middle school, one of the many advanced electives offered, including AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, AP Psychology; non-AP advanced courses include animal behavior, cell biology, epidemiology, forensic science, microbiology, neuroscience, and nutritional science. Post-AP level classes in evolution, genetics, and psychology are also offered. In the physical science department, AP Chemistry and AP Physics are both offered, and both may be taken alongside introductory Regents-level courses in those respective classes. Electives offered include astronomy and astrophysics, electrical engineering, green design, organic chemistry, and post-AP Physics. In 2022, the school prepared to accept an astronomical observatory.{{Cite web|last=Misdary|first=Rosemary|date=2022-05-23|title=NYC's first public observatory is running out of time to find a home|url=https://gothamist.com/|access-date=2022-06-12|website=Gothamist|language=en}}
Freshmen at Bronx Science are required to take one-semester courses in research literacy and engineering, while sophomores take one-semester courses consisting of coding and rhetoric. Collectively, these are referred to as Foundational courses. Sophomore students may satisfy this requirement by instead taking a class in the research program, a three-year long program that culminates in an independent research project and final research paper that is submitted to Regeneron and other prestigious competitions in senior year. The research program is divided into biology, math, physical science/engineering, and social science research.
The mathematics department offers standard AP courses in AB/BC calculus, statistics, and computer science. Students can take precalculus alongside honors algebra 2 and trigonometry in their sophomore year, allowing them to take AP Calculus in their junior year. Post-AP courses in mathematics include multivariable calculus, linear algebra and differential equations, ordinary differential equations, video game development, app development, game theory, and a newly introduced course in financial and actuarial math.
Students are required to take four years of English. AP English Language and AP English Literature are offered, along with journalism workshop and yearbook design. In junior year, students have the option to take the unique AP American Studies course, an interdisciplinary course that correlates the AP English Language and AP United States History courses, while in senior year, the AP English Literature course is divided into courses in creative writing and traditional literature. Four years of social studies or history classes are required. AP European History and AP World History are both offered in sophomore year in preparation for the Global History Regents, while juniors can take AP United States History to satisfy the U.S. history requirement. Senior social studies classes consist of several combinations of AP classes in U.S. Government and Politics, Comparative Government and Politics, Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics. Additional classes in social studies, which must be taken along with these ones, include AP Human Geography, race and gender, and unique classes in Holocaust leadership and speech and debate leadership. A minimum of 2 years of languages are required, if students had previously taken a year of language prior to high school. Bronx Science offers French, Spanish, Latin, Italian, Chinese, and Japanese. At one time Hebrew, Russian, Korean, and German were also offered.
Students must also obtain credits from two terms of a class in the fine arts or the equivalent. The fine arts requirement is usually satisfied during Bronx Science's Summer Program which offers Drama, Music, and Art. Students usually "double up" on two of these courses to satisfy the fine arts requirement for once and all during the time period of one summer. Students are expected to satisfy the arts requirement by the end of sophomore year. Students can also take art or music electives during the school year to satisfy the fine arts requirement by taking a music elective such as jazz band or an arts elective such as AP Art History or AP Studio Art during the regular school year. Health and physical education courses are also required, and the Health requirement may also be fulfilled during the Bronx Science Summer Program in addition to the two fine arts courses.
=Advanced placement courses=
Bronx Science offers all of the AP courses, except for AP German Language and Culture, AP Precalculus, and the AP Capstone program. The courses include:
- English – AP English Literature and Composition, AP English Language and Composition
- Social Sciences – AP U.S. History, AP European History, AP World History (2 Years), AP U.S. Government & Politics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Micro/Macroeconomics, AP Comparative Government & Politics with Economics, AP United States Government & Politics with Economics, AP Human Geography, AP Psychology
- Mathematics – AP Calculus AB, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Computer Science
- Science – AP Biology, AP Environmental Science, AP Chemistry, AP Physics 1&2 (without Calculus), AP Physics C (with Calculus)
- Language – AP Spanish Language, AP Spanish Literature, AP French Language and Culture, AP Italian Language and Culture, AP Latin (Caesar and Virgil), AP Chinese Language and Culture, AP Japanese Language and Culture
- Arts – AP Studio Art, AP Art History, AP Music Theory
=School publications=
File:Bronx science newspaper publication.jpgThe Science Survey is Bronx Science's entirely student-run newspaper.{{Cite web|url=http://bxscience.ny.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=2804&sc_id=1157841109|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080214112722/http://bxscience.ny.schoolwebpages.com/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=2804&sc_id=1157841109|work=Science Survey|via=schoolwebpages.com|title=Home|archive-date=February 14, 2008|access-date=March 10, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://issuu.com/bxsciencesurvey|title=The Science Survey|via=issuu.com|access-date=August 20, 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://thesciencesurvey.com/about/|title=About|work=The Science Survey|publisher=The Bronx High School of Science|access-date=August 20, 2019}} Students manage everything: reporting, layout, design, editing, and final production, under the supervision of the journalism advisor. The paper is printed using funds from its advertisers, with no fiscal school support. The paper is distributed on average five times per year at no charge. The Science Survey has been the name of the Bronx Science student newspaper since the founding of the school in 1938.
Dynamo is the literary magazine sponsored by the English Department, consisting of original poems and stories submitted by students from all grades.{{Cite web|url=http://dynamolitmag.livejournal.com/|via=LiveJournal|title=Dynamo|access-date=March 10, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425152205/http://dynamolitmag.livejournal.com/|archive-date=April 25, 2012}} The Observatory is Bronx Science's prize-winning yearbook.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bxscience.edu/apps/news/show_news.jsp?REC_ID=123266&id=1|title=Bronx Science Yearbook Garners National Awards|website=The Bronx High School of Science|access-date=August 20, 2019}} The yearbook office has a custom-built web server to manage its production, powered by MediaWiki and Coppermine software.
Vox Discipulorum is a student-led monthly publication sponsored by the World Language Department, providing students with a platform to creatively express their language and cultural experiences. Through essays, poems, and artwork, students showcase their linguistic skills and explore diverse cultures.{{Cite web |title=Bronx Science Foreign Language Magazine {{!}} Vox Discipulorum |url=https://bxscivox.wixsite.com/mysite |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=vox |language=en}}
Other department-produced publications include the annual Math Bulletin,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/math_bulletin.jsp?rn=2931|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210060504/http://www.bxscience.edu/math_bulletin.jsp?rn=2931|url-status=live|archive-date=December 10, 2012|title=Math Bulletin|website=Bxscience.edu|date=December 31, 1999|access-date=March 10, 2016}} consisting of student term papers, original student mathematics research, and topics in mathematics; Exposition, an annual production of the Social Studies Department; and Reactions,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/reactions.jsp?rn=2931|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927194643/http://www.bxscience.edu/reactions.jsp?rn=2931|url-status=live|archive-date=September 27, 2007|title=Bronx Science's Physical Science Magazine|website=Bxscience.edu|date=December 31, 1999|access-date=March 10, 2016}} written by physical science students.
Reputation
Bronx Science has received international recognition. In 2020, Newsweek's rankings of the top 5,000 STEM High Schools in the United States (public and private), listed Bronx Science as the 4th best STEM school in the nation.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=November 4, 2019|title=Best STEM Schools - Top 500|url=https://www.newsweek.com/americas-best-stem-high-schools-2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108100124/https://www.newsweek.com/americas-best-stem-high-schools-2020|archive-date=November 8, 2019|access-date=January 27, 2021|website=Newsweek|language=en}}
In 2014, the school ranked 34th out of all high schools nationwide and 1st in New York;{{Cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/districts/new-york-city-public-schools/the-bronx-high-school-of-science-13207|title=The Bronx High School of Science in BRONX, NY|work=U.S. News & World Report|access-date=April 24, 2014}} nationwide, Bronx Science ranked 33rd in 2008 and 58th in 2009.{{Cite news|title=Gold Medal Schools|work=U.S. News & World Report|url=https://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2008/12/04/best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html|date=December 14, 2008|access-date=January 11, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211114757/http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2008/12/04/best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html|archive-date=December 11, 2008}} It attracts an intellectually gifted blend of culturally, ethnically,{{Cite book|title=One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups|author=Herman Badillo|publisher=Sentinel|year=2006|page=28}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.blackboardawards.com/downloads/BBA_2006_Numbers_HS.pdf|title=By the Numbers: Public, Private and Religious High Schools|publisher=The Blackboard Awards|year=2006|access-date=August 12, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926024603/http://www.blackboardawards.com/downloads/BBA_2006_Numbers_HS.pdf|archive-date=September 26, 2007|url-status=dead}} and economically diverse students from New York City.Joseph Berger, "[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/14/nyregion/you-get-bronx-science-yellow-bus-private-transportation-service-fosters-queens.html How Do You Get To Bronx Science? The Yellow Bus; A Private Transportation Service Fosters the Queens Connection"]. The New York Times, January 14, 2003. {{As of|2012}}, Bronx Science is ranked as one of the "22 top-performing schools"{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/top-performing-schools-with-elite-students/2011/05/17/AFcLeQ7G_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Kimberley|last=Winston|title=Education|date=May 18, 2012}} in America on The Washington Post as well as number 50 out of a list of the best 1,000 high schools in the country on The Daily Beast's "America's Best High Schools"[http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/our-report-card-on-the-1-000-that-make-the-grade.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120521034740/http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/05/20/our-report-card-on-the-1-000-that-make-the-grade.html|date=May 21, 2012}} list. In 2014 it was ranked second highest on Cities Journal{{'}}s list of the "15 Best High Schools in New York",{{Cite web|url=http://www.citiesjournal.com/15-best-high-schools-in-new-york/14/|title=15 Best High Schools In New York: #2 The Bronx High School of Science|year=2014|work=Cities Journal|access-date=May 18, 2014}} along with Stuyvesant (ranked third){{Cite web|url=http://www.citiesjournal.com/15-best-high-schools-in-new-york/13/|title=15 Best High Schools In New York: #3 Stuyvesant|year=2014|work=Cities Journal|access-date=May 18, 2014}} and Brooklyn Tech (ranked eighth).{{Cite web|url=http://www.citiesjournal.com/15-best-high-schools-in-new-york/8/|title=15 Best High Schools In New York: #8 Brooklyn Technical High School|year=2014|work=Cities Journal|access-date=May 18, 2014}}
The average SAT score at Bronx Science was 2100 out of 2400.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/galleries/2012/05/20/top-20-high-schools-northeast-photos.html#slide10|title=NewsWeek's Top 20 high schools: Northeast '|date=May 20, 2012|publisher=The Daily Beast|access-date=August 17, 2012}} Almost all Bronx Science graduates continue on to four-year colleges, and it is a "feeder school", with many graduates going on to Ivy League schools and other institutions of higher learning each year.{{Cite web|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|author=Heather Mac Donald|publisher=City Journal|date=Spring 1999|access-date=August 12, 2007|archive-date=June 14, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060614135346/http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_how_gothams_elite.html|url-status=dead }} Bronx Science has counted 132 finalists in the Regeneron (formerly Intel) Science Talent Search, the largest number of any high school.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/alum/bhss/sts.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010127041200/http://www.bxscience.edu/alum/bhss/sts.htm|archive-date=January 27, 2001|title=Intel Science Talent Search|date=January 27, 2001}} Nine graduates have won Nobel Prizes—more than any other secondary education institution in the world—and nine have won Pulitzer Prizes.{{cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/alum/#nobel|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970219062501/http://www.bxscience.edu/alum/#nobel|archive-date=February 19, 1997|title=Bronx Science Alumni|date=February 19, 1997}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.bxscience.edu/alum/profiles/awards.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010127110300/http://www.bxscience.edu/alum/profiles/awards.htm|archive-date=January 27, 2001|title=Distinguished Alumni Achievers|date=January 27, 2001}} Of the nine Nobel Prizes earned by graduates, seven of them are in physics, which earned Bronx Science a designation by the American Physical Society as a "Historic Physics Site" in 2010.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201101/historicsite.cfm|title=High School, Summer School Gain Historic Site Designation|date=January 2011|work=APS News|publisher=American Physical Society|access-date=March 10, 2011}}
Bronx Science is a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSSS).{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncsss.org/membership/institutional-members|title=NCSSS Institutional Members|access-date=February 14, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20090810003610/http://www.ncsssmst.org/InstitutionalMembers.aspx|archive-date=August 10, 2009}} Together with Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School, it is one of the three original specialized science high schools operated by the New York City Department of Education.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/opinion/new-york-citys-top-public-schools-need-diversity.html?_r=0 |title=Elite, Separate, Unequal: New York City's Top Public Schools Need Diversity |author=Kahlenberg, Richard D. |date=June 22, 2014 |access-date=July 20, 2014 |work=The New York Times}}
Transportation
The New York City Subway's Bedford Park Boulevard ({{NYCS trains|Concourse}}) and Bedford Park Boulevard–Lehman College ({{NYCS trains|Jerome}}) stations are located nearby.{{cite NYCS map|Van Cortlandt Park}} Additionally, New York City Bus's {{NYC bus link|Bx10|Bx22|Bx26}} and {{NYC bus link|Bx28}} routes stop near Bronx Science.{{Cite NYC bus map|Bx}}
Notable alumni
{{Main article|List of Bronx High School of Science alumni}}
Many people who attended the Bronx High School of Science have achieved distinction in their respective fields, including winning the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes, the Academy, Emmy and Turing Awards, the U.S. National Medal of Science, political office and numerous professional society honors.
In popular culture
Bronx Science was the primary rival of Millard Fillmore High School in Head of the Class, a television series that aired from 1986 to 1991.
The main character of Northern Exposure, Joel Fleischman, reveals he went to Bronx Science in Season 2, Episode 4.
Bronx Science formed the basis for the Midtown School of Science and Technology in Spider-Man: Homecoming, part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and actor Tom Holland attended for several days under an alias in preparation for his role as Peter Parker/Spiderman without many other students or teachers knowing the real reason for his attendance .{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/13/15924540/spider-man-homecoming-bronx-science-midtown-science-high-school|title=Spider-Man's high school's resemblance to a certain NYC STEM school is uncanny|first=Shannon|last=Liao|date=July 13, 2017|website=The Verge}}{{Cite web |last=Lang |first=Brent |date=2017-03-28 |title=Tom Holland on ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming,’ Spinoffs and Planning for Bathroom Breaks |url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/tom-holland-spiderman-homecoming-2-1202017512/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G-B5upjLjM |title=Robert Downey Jr. & Tom Holland on Spider-Man: Homecoming |date=2017-06-04 |last=Jimmy Kimmel Live |access-date=2025-03-22 |via=YouTube}}{{Cite web |last=Bedolis |first=Emily |title=When Spider-Man Came to Bronx Science |url=https://thesciencesurvey.com/arts-entertainment/2017/02/17/when-spider-man-came-to-bronx-science/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=The Science Survey}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVLzhd_R4Vc |title='Spider-Man' Tom Holland Goes Undercover to Experience High School |date=2017-07-06 |last=Inside Edition |access-date=2025-03-22 |via=YouTube}}
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- {{Official website|https://www.bxscience.edu/}}
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