Stuyvesant High School#References

In 1887, the then independent city of Brooklyn's Superintendent of Schools, William Henry Maxwell, wrote a report about the need to construct technical / scientifically oriented secondary schools in Brooklyn and throughout New York state. This would follow other examples of specialized high schools, such as the Baltimore Manual Training School, now the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.{{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}} The municipal architect and engineer C. B. J. Snyder, who designed many of the city's public school buildings, had repeatedly mentioned a need for more basic mathematical and scientific preparation in New York's growing numbers of public secondary schools in the late 19th century.{{rp|3}} The first such school in the city was Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, which opened in 1893.{{rp|4}} 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.{{rp|16}}

In January 1903, Maxwell and Snyder submitted a report to the New York City Board of Education in which they suggested creating a school in Manhattan.{{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 }} The Board of Education approved the plans in April 1904. It suggested that the school occupy a plot on East 15th Street, west of First Avenue. But 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.{{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". Stuyvesant Square, Stuyvesant Street, and later Stuyvesant Town (which was built in 1947) are all near the proposed 15th Street school building. All these locations were named after Peter Stuyvesant,{{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 }} the last Dutch Director (governor) of New Netherland (and its major port town of New Amsterdam) and owner of the area's Stuyvesant Farm.{{rp|4}} The appellation of a specific historical name was selected to avoid confusion with Brooklyn's earlier Manual Training High School.{{rp|8}}

Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan's first specialized high school.{{cite report |title=(Former) Stuyvesant High School |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |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 }}{{rp|5}} At the time of its opening, it had 155 students and 12 teachers.

At first, the school provided a core curriculum of "English, Latin, modern languages, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, [and] music", as well as a physical education program and a more specialized track of "woodworking, metalworking, mechanical drawing, [and] freehand drawing".{{rp|5}} But 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 in the evening.{{rp|5}}{{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 }} Thereafter, Stuyvesant became renowned for excellence in math and science. In 1909, eighty percent of the school's alumni went to college; other high schools sent only 25% to 50% of their graduates to college.{{rp|5}}{{cite journal|first=Robert W.|last=Selvidge|title=A Study of Some Manual Training High Schools|journal=Manual Training Magazine|date=June 1909}}

By 1919, officials were restricting admission based on academic achievement.{{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=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221154110/http://www.ourstrongband.org/history/timeline.html |archive-date=February 21, 2009 }} Stuyvesant implemented a double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students: some students would attend in the morning and others in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. These double sessions ran until spring 1957.{{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=Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art |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 }} 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.{{rp|5}}{{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 }}

In 1967, Alice de Rivera sued the Board of Education, alleging that she had been banned from taking Stuyvesant's entrance exam because of her gender.{{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 }} The lawsuit was decided in her favor, and Stuyvesant was required to accept female students.{{rp|6}} The first female students were accepted in September 1969, when Stuyvesant offered admission to 14 girls and enrolled 12 of them. The next year, Stuyvesant accepted 223 female students.{{rp|6}} By 2015, girls were 43% of the student body.{{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=New York City Public Schools |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}}

In 1972, the New York State Legislature passed the Hecht–Calandra Act, which designated four citywide selective specialized public high schools in New York City—Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Technical High School, Bronx High School of Science, and the High School of Music & Art (now 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.{{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=City Journal |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 }} 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.

The current school building in Battery Park City is about {{convert|0.5|mi|km|1}} 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.{{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=Today show |publisher=NBC |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 }} When classes resumed on September 21, 2001,

{{Cite web |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110908/downtown/stuyvesant-high-school-students-sick-10-years-after-911 |title=DNAinfo.com Stuyvesant High School Students Sick 10 Years After 9/11 |access-date=January 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202004844/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20110908/downtown/stuyvesant-high-school-students-sick-10-years-after-911 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }}

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 severe congestion at Brooklyn Tech, and required the students to attend in two shifts, with Stuyvesant students attending in the evening.{{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}} Normal classes resumed on October 9.{{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}}

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Nine alumni were killed in the World Trade Center attack.*{{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}}

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• {{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}} On October 2, 2001, the school newspaper, The Spectator, ran a 24-page section with student photos, reflections, and stories. On November 20, the magazine was distributed for free to the greater metropolitan area, enclosed within 830,000 copies of The New York Times.{{cite news |url=http://events.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/terrorism/stuy.pdf |title=September 11th 2001 Special Edition |work=The Spectator |via=The New York Times |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 }} 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 and compile them into a collection of monologues. Thoms published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11—The View from a High School at Ground Zero.{{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}}

During the 2003–04 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.{{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}}

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

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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.{{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 }} 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.{{rp|3}} The cornerstone for the new building was laid in September 1905.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

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A half-century later, during 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,{{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 }} the High School for Health Professions and Human Services,{{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 }} and lower grades of PS 226.{{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 }}

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 {{Convert|1.5|acre|ha}} of land for the new building.{{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}} 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.

[http://schools.nyc.gov/community/facilities/PublicArt/Architecture/Recent/Mnemonics.htm NYC Schools webpage] {{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.

The structure's main architect, Alexander Cooper of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, had also designed much of the surrounding development of Battery Park City.

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| 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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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.{{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 }} The S.H.S. Library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City.{{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 }}

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.{{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=New York City Department of Education|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}}

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.{{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 }}

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.{{cite news |newspaper=The Spectator |volume=97 |issue=6 |date=November 2006 |page=2 |title=Dedication Ceremony for Lewy Multimedia Center Held}} and donated his personal library in 2007.{{cite news |newspaper=The Spectator |first=Gavin |last=Huang |date=December 2, 2007 |title=Stuy Alum Donates Library Books}} 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.{{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 }}

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

File:92B_Mnemonics_Students02_(546.3KB).jpgDuring 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.{{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=Stuy³: A site about Mnemonics |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=January 26, 2008 |url-status=dead }} The S.H.S. installation later received the Award for Excellence in Design from the Art Commission of the City of New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.andrewginzel.com/JONESGINZEL/PROJECTS/ALL/mnemonics/mnemonicstxt.html |title=Kristin Jones — 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 }}

The New York City Subway's Chambers Street station, served by the {{NYCS trains|Broadway-Seventh south}}, is located nearby, as well as the Chambers Street–World Trade Center station served by the {{NYCS trains|Eighth south}}.{{NYCS const|map}} Additionally, New York City Bus's {{NYC bus link|M9|M20}} and {{NYC bus link|M22}} routes stop near Stuyvesant.{{Cite NYC bus map|M}} 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.{{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}} 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.{{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}}

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Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of over 3,000 students{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=1508 |title=High School Directory Entry: Stuyvesant High School |publisher=New York City Department of Education |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 }} 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,{{rp|25}} which is administered annually. Approximately 28,000 students took the test in 2017.{{cite web | title=Specialized High Schools Student Handbook | publisher=New York City Department of Education | 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 }}{{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.{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/StudentEnroll/HSAdmissions/hsProcess/Specialadm/special.htm |title=Specialized Admissions Round |publisher=New York City Department of Education |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}} 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.{{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}} 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,{{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=Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now |year=1997 |access-date=May 6, 2006}} while attempts to eliminate the exam have been criticized as discriminatory against Asian Americans.

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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.{{cite web |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M475 |title=Stuyvesant High School |publisher=New York City Department of Education |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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3347501.html |title=Façade of Excellence |first=Sol |last=Stern |publisher=Hoover Institution |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}}

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.{{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 |url-status=usurped |publisher=Stuyvesant Centennial Committee}}{{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}}

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,{{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 }} a free program to prepare students for the admissions test.{{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=New York City Department of Education |date=March 11, 2009 |access-date=May 2, 2009}} Students attend preparatory classes through the program, now known as the Specialized High School Institute (also known as DREAM),{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/SHSI/default.htm |title=What is DREAM – The Specialized High Schools Institute (DREAM – SHSI)? |publisher=New York City Department of Education |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 }} 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.{{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 — 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 }} 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.{{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 }}{{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}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf |title=2002–2003 Annual Report, Stuyvesant High School |author=Manhattan Superintendency |publisher=New York City Public Schools |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}} Stuyvesant also receives private contributions from alumni, retired faculty, charitable foundations and educational grants to build up a school endowment.{{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|url-status=usurped|access-date=March 8, 2006}}

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.{{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 }} Several exemptions from technology education exist for seniors.{{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 }}{{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}} Stuyvesant offers students a selection of elective courses, including astronomy, New York City history, Women's Voices, and Computer Graphics Design in the Computer Science Area.{{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}} 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.

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As a specialized high school, Stuyvesant offers a range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses.{{cite web |url=http://www.stuy100.org/about.html |title=Stuyvesant Handbook |publisher=Stuyvesant High School |access-date=April 30, 2017 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305222753/http://www.stuy100.org/about.html |archive-date=March 5, 2005 }} 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.{{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}} In addition, there is a one-year computer networking class which can earn students Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.{{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 — 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 }}

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include Spanish, French, German, Latin, Mandarin and Japanese.{{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}} In 2005, the school also started offering courses in Arabic after the school's Muslim Student Association had raised funds to support the course.{{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 }} 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.{{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}} The chemistry and physics departments include classes in organic chemistry, physical chemistry, astronomy, engineering mechanics, and electronics.The two departments are housed in the same room at Stuyvesant. See:

• {{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}}
• {{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}}

The English Department offers students courses in British and classical literature, Shakespearean literature, science fiction, philosophy, existentialism, debate, acting, journalism, creative writing, and poetry.{{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}} 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.{{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}}

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.{{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}}{{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}}

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,{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountability/Reports/Data/TestResults/2010_CBS_School%20Summary%20SAT%20Data.xlsx |format=Excel |publisher=New York City Department of Education |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 }} while the class of 2013 had an average SAT score of 2096.{{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}} {{As of|2023}}, Stuyvesant students' average SAT score was 1510 of 1600 points.{{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 }} 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".{{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=The New York Times |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 }} {{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.

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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.{{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 }} In addition, Stuyvesant has ultimate teams for the boys' varsity, boys' junior varsity, and girls' varsity divisions.{{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 |url-status=usurped |access-date=January 26, 2008}}

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.{{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 }} Stuyvesant also has its own swimming pool, but it does not contain its own running track or tennis court.{{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}}

The student body of Stuyvesant High School is represented by the Stuyvesant Student Union,{{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 }} 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.{{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}}

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

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The Spectator is Stuyvesant's official in-school newspaper, which is published biweekly and is independent from the school administration and faculty.{{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}} 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.[http://stuyspectator.com/ The Spectator {{!}} The Stuyvesant High School Newspaper] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201145517/http://stuyspectator.com/ |date=December 1, 2009 }}

Founded in 1915 (and now 109 years old), The Spectator is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications.{{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 |url-status=usurped |access-date=March 18, 2007}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cspa/docs/awards-to-people/sullivan/recipients/index.html |title=Awards to People |publisher=Columbia Scholastic Press Association |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 }} founded 1925.

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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.{{cite court|litigants=Trachtman v. Anker|vol=426|reporter=F.Supp.|opinion=198|court=S.D.N.Y.|year=1976}}

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",{{cite court |litigants=Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District |vol=393 |reporter=US |opinion=503 |pinpoint=21 |court=8th Cir. |date=1969 |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/393/503/case.html |access-date=December 17, 2017 }} 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.{{cite court |litigants=Trachtman v. Anker |vol=563 |reporter=F.2d |opinion=512 |court=2d Cir. |year=1977}} 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.{{cite court |litigants=Trachtman v. Anker |vol=435 |reporter=U.S. |opinion=925 |year=1978}}

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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{{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}}{{cite news |url=http://www.jessicasteen.com/singsingsing_art.html |title=Sing! Sing! Sing! |first=George |last=Anthony |newspaper=Toronto Sun |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}} and has expanded to many New York City high schools since then.{{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 }} SING! at Stuyvesant started as a small event in 1973,{{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=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002153409/http://www.ourstrongband.org/activities/clubs/sing.html |archive-date=October 2, 2011 }} 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.

The Stuyvesant High School has produced many notable alumni, including four Nobel laureates.{{cite book |last=Klein |first=Alec |url=https://archive.org/details/classapartprodig00klei |url-access=registration |title=A Class Apart |page=[https://archive.org/details/classapartprodig00klei/page/26 26] |publisher=Simon & Schuster |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... }}{{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}} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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 }}

U.S. News & World Report included Stuyvesant on its list of "Best High Schools" published in December 2009, ranking 31st.{{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=Daily News |date=March 11, 2007 |access-date=March 31, 2008}} In its 2010 progress report, the New York City Department of Education assigned S.H.S. an "A", the highest possible grade.{{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=New York City Public Schools |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 }}

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.{{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 | GetListy! |date=April 26, 2010 |access-date=May 14, 2012}} 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.{{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=The Scientist |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 }} 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.{{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 }} 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.{{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}}

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Notable scientists among Stuyvesant alumni include mathematicians Bertram Kostant (1945){{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}} and

Paul Cohen (1950),{{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 }} string theorist Brian Greene (1980),{{cite journal |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2006/green.html |title=The String is The Thing – 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 }} physicist Lisa Randall (1980),{{cite web |url=http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/randall.html |title=The Third Culture – 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 }} and genomic researcher Eric Lander (1974).{{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 }} Other prominent alumni include civil rights leader Bob Moses,{{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 }} MAD Magazine editor Nick Meglin (1953),{{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}} entertainers such as songwriter and Steely Dan founder Walter Becker, Thelonious Monk (1935),{{cite book |last= Kelley |first=Robin D.G. |author-link = Robin Kelley |date=2009 |title=Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original |location=New York |publisher= Free Press |oclc=180755951 |isbn = 9780684831909 }} and actors Lucy Liu (1968),{{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 }} Tim Robbins (1976),{{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 — Guests — Tim Robbins |date=December 5, 1999 |publisher=Bravo |access-date=November 1, 2007}} and James Cagney (1918),{{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 }} comedian Paul Reiser (1973),{{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 }} playwright Arthur M. Jolly (1987),{{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 }} sports anchor Mike Greenberg (1985), and Columbia University, early NBA and minor league pro basketball player and bookmaker Jack Molinas (1949).{{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 }} In business, government and politics, former United States Attorney General Eric Holder in the Obama presidential administration (1969) is a Stuyvesant alumnus,{{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}} as are 2008 presidential election campaign manager and later presidential administration Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama David Axelrod (1972){{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/01/AR2008050103509.html?nav=hcmodule |title=The Player at Bat — David Axelrod, the Man With Obama's Game Plan, Is Also the Candidate's No. 1 Fan |first=Robert G. |last=Kaiser |newspaper=The Washington Post |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 }} and former adviser to President Bill Clinton, Dick Morris (1964).{{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 }}

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.{{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 }} Former New York City Council member Eva Moskowitz (1982) graduated from the high school,{{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 }} as did the creator of the BitTorrent protocol, Bram Cohen (1993).{{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}} A notable Olympic Games medalist from the school was foil fencer Albert Axelrod, and a notable coach was two-time fencing Olympian Herb Cohen. Paul Winfield (October 23, 1977). [https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/23/archives/victorys-never-dull-for-fencers-at-taft-those-musketeer-movies.html "Victory's Never Dull For Fencers at Taft"], The New York Times; accessed February 8, 2018.{{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 }} 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.{{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}} 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):

• Joshua Lederberg (1941) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1958{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1958/lederberg-bio.html |title=Joshua Lederberg — 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 }}
• Robert Fogel (1944) – Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1993{{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 }}
• Roald Hoffmann (1954) – Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1981{{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}}
• Richard Axel (1963) – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004{{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}}
• Seth Sheldon (1994) - Nobel Peace Prize through affiliation with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), 2004 {{cite website|url=https://www.icanw.org/seth_shelden|title=Seth Shelden}}

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