Stuyvesant High School | |
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Address | |
345 Chambers Street , 10282 United States | |
Coordinates | 40°43′04″N 74°00′50″W / 40.7179°N 74.0138°W[1] |
Information | |
School type | Selective public high school |
Motto | Latin: Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia (For knowledge and wisdom) |
Established | 1904 |
School district | New York City Department of Education |
School number | M475 |
CEEB code | 334070[4] |
NCES School ID | 360007702877[2] |
Principal | Seung Yu[3] |
Faculty | 162.92 (on FTE basis)[2] |
Enrollment | 3,334 (2022-23)[2] |
Student to teacher ratio | 20.46[2] |
Athletics conference | PSAL |
Mascot | Pegleg Pete[7] |
Nickname | Stuy |
Team name | Peglegs |
USNWR ranking | 26[5] |
Newspaper | The Spectator |
Yearbook | The Indicator |
Nobel laureates | 4 |
Website | stuy |
Stuyvesant High School (pronounced /ˈstaɪvəsənt/),[8] commonly referred to among its students as Stuy (pronounced /staɪ/),[8][9][10] is a public college-preparatory, specialized high school in New York City, United States. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, these specialized schools offer tuition-free accelerated academics to city residents.
Stuyvesant was established as an all-boys school in the East Village of Manhattan in 1904. An entrance examination was mandated for all applicants starting in 1934, and the school started accepting female students in 1969. Stuyvesant moved to its current location at Battery Park City in 1992 because the student body had become too large to be suitably accommodated in the original campus. The old building now houses several high schools.
Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Every March, the 800 to 850 applicants with the highest SHSAT scores out of the around 30,000 students who apply to Stuyvesant are accepted.[11] The school has a wide range of extracurricular activities,[12] including a theater competition called SING! and two student publications.
Notable alumni include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder, physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, economist Thomas Sowell, mathematician Paul Cohen, chemist Roald Hoffmann, genome researcher Eric Lander, Oscar-winning actor James Cagney, comedian Billy Eichner, young adult fiction author Jordan Sonnenblick, and chess grandmaster Robert Hess. Stuyvesant is one of only six secondary schools worldwide that has educated four or more Nobel laureates.