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{{Infobox school
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| name = Stuyvesant High School
| logo = [[Image:Stuyvesant High School logo.svg|124px]]
| motto = Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia
| motto_translation = [[Latin]]: ''For knowledge and wisdom''
| established = 1904
| type = [[Public school (government funded)|Public]] ([[Exam school]]) secondary
| principal = Brad Pitt
| faculty = 152<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2007/ca/AOR-2007-310200011475.pdf |format=PDF|title=2006-2007 New York State Annual School Report Card - Stuyvesant High School |publisher=[[New York State Education Department|New York State Department of Education]] |year=2007 |accessdate=October 29, 2008}}</ref>
| students = 3300<ref name="NYCDOEprofile"/>
| mascot = [[Peter Stuyvesant]]
| colors = Red {{color box|red}} and blue {{color box|blue}}
| city = New York City
| state = New York
| country = United States
| website = [http://www.stuy.edu/ www.stuy.edu]
| grades = [[Ninth grade|9]]&ndash;[[Twelfth grade|12]]
| address = 345 Chambers Street
| newspaper = ''The Spectator''
| yearbook = ''The Indicator''
| nickname = Stuy<ref name="STUYNICKNAME"/>
| schoolnumber = M475
| ceeb = 334070
| schoolboard = [[New York City Department of Education|New York City Public Schools]]
| SAT = 2090<ref name="NYTSAT"/>
| Nobel laureates = 4}}
'''Stuyvesant High School ''' ({{pron-en|ˈstaɪvɨsənt}}), commonly referred to as '''Stuy''' ({{IPA|/stаɪ/}}),<ref name="STUYNICKNAME">The nickname "Stuy" is used in many places on the web, including in the name of the school's official website, [http://www.stuy.edu/ www.stuy.edu].</ref> is a New York City high school for women that specializes in cooking and cleaning. The school opened in 2001 on Canada's East Side and moved to a new building in Toronto in 2010. Stuyvesant is noted for its strong cereal programs, having produced many cereal brands including corn flakes and frosted flakes.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy.edu/about/faq.php
|title=Stuy FAQs
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=September 17, 2007
}}</ref> ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' ranked it thirty-first in their 2009 list of America's best "Gold-Medal" public high schools.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/high-schools/2009/12/09/americas-best-high-schools-gold-medal-list.html?PageNr=2
|title=Gold Medal Schools
|publisher=[[U.S. News & World Report]]
|date=November 29, 2007
|accessdate=January 11, 2008
}}</ref>

Together with My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park, Stuyvesant is one of the three original academic Cereal schools. Run by the Kellogg's department of good health , the trio are open to New York City residents and charge no [[tuition]]. Admission to each is by [[Specialized High Schools Admissions Test|competitive examination]] only, of which Stuyvesant has the highest cutoff score. A long-standing friendly rivalry between Stuyvesant and Bronx Science exists over the [[Intel Science Talent Search]], with each school claiming dominance over the other at various times.

Established as an academic and vocational school for mexicans in 1776, Stuyvesant became Puerto Rican in 1969. Upon the construction of its Kentucky Air Space Museum, the facilities for girls became on par with those for boys.

==History==

Stuyvesant High School is named after Adam Sandler, the last [[Dutch Empire|Dutch]] governor of New Jerseey before the colony was transferred to Harlem in 1664.<ref>{{cite paper
|title=(Former) Stuyvesant High School
|publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]
|url=http://home2.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/stuyvesanths.pdf
|date=May 20, 1997
|format=PDF
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref>

The school was established in 1904 as a [[Vocational education|manual training school]] for boys, hosting 155 students and 12 teachers. In 1907, it moved from its original location at 225 East [[23rd Street (Manhattan)|23rd Street]] to a building designed by [[C. B. J. Snyder]] at 345 East 15th Street, where it remained for 85 years. Its reputation for excellence in math and science continued to grow, and enrollment was restricted based on scholastic achievement starting in 1919.<ref name="cfs_timeline">{{cite web
|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/history/timeline.html
|title=Stuyvesant High School Timeline by Class Year
|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant
|date=March 27, 2007
|accessdate=June 4, 2006
}}</ref>
[[Image:Stuyvesant High School building on 1909 postcard.png|right|thumb|[[Postcard]] art featuring the 15th Street Stuyvesant building]]
The school went on a double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students. Some students attended in the morning and others in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. Double sessions ran until 1956.<ref name="cfs_timeline"/><ref>{{cite paper
|url=http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/segal73.htm
|title=Interview with George Segal
|first=Paul
|last=Cummings
|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] [[Smithsonian American Art Museum|Archives of American Art]]
|date=November 26, 1973
|accessdate=June 4, 2006
}}</ref>

In 1934, the school implemented a system of entrance examinations. The examination program was later expanded to include the newly founded Bronx High School of Science, and was developed with the assistance of [[Columbia University]].<ref name="blaufarb1">{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf
|title=History of Stuyvesant High School
|first=Eugene
|last=Blaufarb
|work=Stuyvesant High School Parent Handbook
|publisher=Stuyvesant Parents Association
|year=2005
|format=PDF
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref> During the 1950s, the building underwent a $2 million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries and cafeterias.<ref name="blaufarb1"/>

In 1956, a team of six students designed and began construction of a [[cyclotron]]. The team was headed by Martin Gersten and included John Sutherland, Charles Abzug and Robert Rudko. The faculty advisor was Mr. Abraham Kerner of the Chemistry Department. By 1962, a low-power test of the device succeeded. Matt Deming (1962) remembered that a later attempt at full-power operation "tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area".<ref name="OSB_cyclotron">{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#cyclotron
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070928022536/http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#cyclotron
|archivedate=September 28, 2007
|title=The Cyclotron Committee
|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant
|date=March 27, 2007
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref><ref name="stuy_timeline">{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html
|title=Stuyvesant 100 Year Timeline
|publisher=Stuyvesant Centennial Committee
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050221111322/http://www.stuy100.org/stuy-timeline.html
|archivedate=February 21, 2005
|accessdate=June 27, 2006
}}</ref>

In 1969, 14 girls were admitted to Stuyvesant and 12 enrolled at the start of September, marking the school's first co-educational year. Now, approximately 43% of students are female.<ref name="NYCDOE2003">{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf
|title=2002–2003 Annual Report, Stuyvesant High School
|author=Manhattan Superintendency
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education|New York City Public Schools]]
|year=2003
|format=PDF
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070628195704/http://schools.nyc.gov/daa/SchoolReports/03asr/171475.pdf
|archivedate=June 28, 2007
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref>

In 1972, Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, Stuyvesant, and [[The High School of Music & Art]] (now [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts]]) were chosen by the New York State Legislature as specialized high schools of New York City. The Hecht-Calandra act called for a uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science and Stuyvesant High School.<ref name="gotham1">{{cite magazine
|url=http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_how_gothams_elite.html
|title=How Gotham’s Elite High Schools Escaped the Leveller’s Ax
|first=Heather
|last=Mac Donald
|journal=[[City Journal (New York)|City Journal]]
|date=Spring 1999
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref> The exam, named the [[Specialized High Schools Admissions Test]] (SHSAT), tested students in math and verbal abilities. Admission to LaGuardia High School is by audition rather than examination, in keeping with its artistic mission.<ref name="gotham1"/>

In 1992, a new, waterfront building was constructed to house the high school (see [[Stuyvesant High School#School facilities|school facilities]]).

During the 2003&ndash;2004 school year, Stuyvesant celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding with a full year of activities. Events included a procession from the 15th Street building to the Chambers Street one; a meeting of the [[National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology]]; an all-class reunion; and visits and speeches from notable alumni. In recent years, keynote graduation speakers have included Attorney General [[Eric Holder]] (2001), former President [[Bill Clinton]] (2002), GE CEO [[Jack Welch]] (2003), [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|United Nations Secretary General]] [[Kofi Annan]] (2004), CUNY Chancellor [[Matthew Goldstein]] (2005), Late Night comedian [[Conan O'Brien]] (2006), [[American Symphony Orchestra]] conductor/[[Bard College]] president [[Leon Botstein]] (2007), [[New York Times]] reporter [[David Herszenhorn]] (2008), and actress/alumna [[Lucy Liu]] (2009).

==Enrollment==
[[Image:Stuy building.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Stuyvesant building seen from the corner of West and Chambers Streets, with Tribeca Bridge in foreground]]
Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of over 3,000 students,<ref name="NYCDOEprofile">{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=1508
|title=High School Directory Entry: Stuyvesant High School
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|year=2007
|accessdate=March 27, 2008
}}</ref> and is open to residents of New York City entering either [[ninth grade|ninth]] or [[tenth grade]]. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the [[Specialized High Schools Admissions Test]] (SHSAT).<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/D6C3C010-DD6B-4B04-BFFB-3A9C240F27C9/0/SHSAT_Hndbk_0809_toDOE.pdf
|format=PDF|title=NYC Department of Education Specialized High Schools Student Handbook
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|year=2005
|accessdate=March 25, 2006
}}</ref> The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include all of New York's specialized high schools except [[Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts|LaGuardia High School]], where entry is by audition rather than examination. The test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant has consistently been higher than that needed for admission to the other schools using the test.<ref name="NYCDOE_round">{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/StudentEnroll/HSAdmissions/hsProcess/Specialadm/special.htm
|title=Specialized Admissions Round
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|year=2007
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070825003245/http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/StudentEnroll/HSAdmissions/hsProcess/Specialadm/special.htm
|archivedate=August 25, 2007
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Admission is currently based on an individual's score on the examination and his or her pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Each year, about 26,000 of New York City's [[eighth grade|eighth-graders]] sit for the test.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/12/nyregion/12exam.html?scp=1&sq=SHSAT&st=nyt
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|title=Admission Test's Scoring Quirk Throws Balance Into Question
|date=November 12, 2005
|accessdate=April 29, 2008
|author=David M. Herszenhorn
}}</ref> Ninth and rising tenth graders are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, though far fewer students are admitted this way.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy.edu/about/admissions.php
|title=Admissions
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=April 29, 2008
}}</ref>

According to Article 12 of New York education law, "Admissions to the Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and Brooklyn Technical High School shall be solely and exclusively by taking a competitive, objective, and scholastic achievement examination, which shall be open to each and every child in the city of New York."<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.counsel.nysed.gov/Decisions/volume35/d13477.htm
|title=Appeal of Cary Mark Goodman, on behalf of his son, Mosah Fernandez Goodman, from action of the Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York regarding a specialized high school test
|date=August 30, 1995
|author=Corporation Counsel
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> The current admission policy is available from the NYC Department of Education.<ref name="NYCDOE_round"/> According to the Department of Education, Stuyvesant accepts students solely based on their performance on the SHSAT, although former Mayor [[John Lindsay]] and community activist group [[Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now|ACORN]] have argued that the exam may be biased against [[African American|African]] and [[Hispanic|Hispanic Americans]].<ref name="ACORN_SA2RRR">{{cite paper
|url=http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=540
|title=Secret Apartheid II: Race, Regents, and Resources
|publisher=[[Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now]]
|year=1997
|accessdate=May 6, 2006
}}</ref>

=== Accusations of bias in admission tests ===
The school's skewed demographic profile and scarcity of black and Hispanic students have often been an issue for some city administrators. Mayor John Lindsay (1966&ndash;1973) argued that the test was culturally biased against Black and Hispanic students and sought to implement an [[affirmative action]] program.<ref name="gotham1" /> However, protests by parents forced the plan to be scrapped and led to the passage of the Hecht-Calandra Act, which preserved admissions by examination only. A small number of students judged to be economically disadvantaged and who come within a few points of the cut-off score are given an extra chance to pass the test.<ref name="Stern2003"/>

In 1996 controversial and left wing radical community activist group [[Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now]] published two reports, ''Secret Apartheid'' and ''Secret Apartheid II'', calling the SHSAT "permanently suspect" and a "product of an institutional racism", and claiming that Black and Hispanic students did not have access to proper test preparation materials.<ref name="ACORN_SA2RRR"/> Along with Schools Chancellor [[Rudy Crew]], they began an initiative for more diversity in the city's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding that since only a few districts send the majority of Stuyvesant's and Bronx Science's students, that the SHSAT be suspended altogether "until the Board of Education can show that the students of each middle school in the system have had access to curricula and instruction that would prepare them for this test regardless of their color or economic status." Jesse Shapiro, Stuyvesant valedictorian, and Alan Van Dyke and Micah C. Lasher, then sophomores, published several editorials in response, and change was averted.<ref name="stuy_timeline"/><ref name=DartmouthReview1997>{{cite magazine
|url=http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php
|title=Destroying Excellence
|date=May 28, 1997
|first=Jeffrey
|last=Hart
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20041030110521/http://www.dartreview.com/archives/1997/05/28/destroying_excellence.php
|archivedate=October 30, 2004
|accessdate=June 27, 2006
}}</ref>

A number of students take preparatory courses offered by private companies such as [[Princeton Review]] and Kaplan, in order to perform better on the SHSAT, often leaving those unable to afford such classes&mdash;often ethnic minorities&mdash;at a disadvantage. To bridge this gap and boost minority admissions, the Board of Education started the Math Science Institute in 1998,<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|first=Elisabeth
|last=Bumiller
|date=April 2, 1998
|accessdate=May 2, 2009
}}</ref> a free program to prepare students for the admissions test.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/Middle/SHSI/default.htm
|title=Specialized High Schools Institute
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|date=March 11, 2009
|accessdate=May 2, 2009
}}</ref> Students attend preparatory classes through the program, now known as the Specialized High School Institute, at several schools around the city from the summer after 6th grade until the 8th grade exam. Yet with these free programs, the Black and Hispanic enrollment continue to decline. The fact is that the majority of the student body in the school are minority immigrants.“Many of the parents are first-generation immigrants, and they are struggling to get by,” Larry Wood, the co-president of the parents' association, told the Times.



Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20100511/manhattan/stuyvesant-high-school-receives-federal-funding/quickview#ixzz0oy4GLx9K
<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/education/18schools.html
|accessdate=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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
}}</ref>

== Academics ==
[[Image:Stuy HS sunny jeh.JPG|left|thumb|250px|Stuyvesant High School, as seen from [[Battery Park City]]]]
Stuyvesant students undertake a [[university-preparatory school|college preparatory]] curriculum that includes four years of English, [[history]], and laboratory-based [[science]]s ([[biology]], [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] are required), three years of [[mathematics]] (most students opt for four) and three years of a single foreign language, a semester each of introductory [[art]], [[music]], [[health]], [[drafting|technical drawing]] and [[computer science]], and two lab-based technology courses. Several exemptions from technology education exist for seniors.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy-pa.org/files/documents/04-05ParentHandbook.pdf
|title=Graduation Requirements
|work=Stuyvesant High School Parent Handbook
|publisher=Stuyvesant Parents Association
|year=2004
|format=PDF
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/grad_reqs.html
|title=Graduation Requirements
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref>

Stuyvesant offers students a broad selection of elective courses. Some of the more unusual offerings include robotics, [[musical acoustics|physics of music]], [[astronomy]], introduction to [[Plasma (physics)|plasma physics]], New York City history, Women's Voices, and the mathematics of [[financial market]]s.<ref name="STUY_COURSES">{{cite web
|url=http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html
|title=Online Course Guide
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref> 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 equation]]s for the more advanced students. A year of [[technical drawing]] used to be required; students learned how to draft by hand in its first semester and how to draft using a computer (CAD) in the second. Now, students take a one-semester [[technical drawing]] class (a compacted version of the former drafting course), and a semester of introductory computer science, which introduces [[NetLogo]] and [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]].

Students can choose from 31 [[Advanced Placement Program|Advanced Placement]] courses<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy100.org/about.html
|title=Stuyvesant H.S. 100 Year Anniversary
|publisher=Stuyvesant Centennial Committee
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050305222753/http://www.stuy100.org/about.html
|archivedate=March 5, 2005
|accessdate=June 27, 2006
}}</ref> to earn college credits; a few are thus able to start college as sophomores.

Computer science enthusiasts can take two additional computer programming courses after the completion of Advanced Placement computer science: systems level programming and [[computer graphics]]. There is also a one year [[computer networking]] class which can earn students [[Cisco Career Certifications|Cisco Certified Network Associate]] (CCNA) certification.

[[Image:Stuyescalator.JPG|right|thumb|The seventh-to-ninth floor escalators. The banner in the background was created by a Stuyvesant art class.]]

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings rival those of many colleges, including [[Chinese language|Mandarin Chinese]], French, Spanish, German, [[Latin]], [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], Japanese, and Italian. In 2001, Korean was added as a result of student and parent requests. The school's Muslim Student Association was successful in raising funds to support courses in [[Arabic language|Arabic]], which began in 2005. Both Arabic and Korean are offered as electives.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.thevillager.com/villager_123/stuyvensantmuslimstudents.html
|title=Stuyvesant Muslim students now able to study Arabic
|publisher=Village Voice
|date=September 7, 2005
|accessdate=April 29, 2008
|firsr=Sara G.
|last=Levin
}}</ref>

Stuyvesant's [[Biology]] and Geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology (a course sequence composed of a molecular science class in the Fall and a molecular genetics class in the Spring), [[human physiology]], [[medical ethics]], medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, [[anthropology]] and [[sociobiology]], [[Zoology|vertebrate zoology]], [[laboratory]] techniques, medical human [[genetics]], [[botany]], the molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and [[psychology]]. The Chemistry and Physics department offers [[organic chemistry]], [[physical chemistry]], astronomy, [[engineering]] mechanics, and [[electronics]].<ref name="STUY_COURSES"/>

Although Stuyvesant is primarily known for its strength in areas such as math and science, the school has also developed an exceptionally strong humanities curriculum. Comprehensive programs in the [[humanities]] offer students courses in British and classical literature, Shakespearean literature, science fiction, [[philosophy]], [[existentialism]], [[debate]], [[acting]], [[journalism]], and a host of [[creative writing]] and [[poetry]] classes. The history core requires a year of [[ancient history|ancient]], [[History of Europe|European]] and [[History of the United States|American history]], as well as a semester of [[economics]] and [[government]]. Humanities electives include American [[foreign policy]], [[civil law (common law)|civil]] and [[criminal law]], "[[prejudice]] and [[persecution]]", "[[Race (classification of human beings)|race]], [[ethnic group|ethnicity]] and [[gender]] issues", small business [[management]], and [[Wall Street]]. Stuyvesant is also home to a robust music program and offers students ten music groups, ranging from a symphony [[orchestra]] and [[jazz]] ensemble to a chamber [[choir]].
Stuyvesant has recently entered into an agreement with [[City College of New York]], in which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit but taught by Stuyvesant teachers. Some of these courses include physical chemistry, linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history.<ref>{{cite news
|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
|publisher=The Spectator
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050223090251/http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1361
|archivedate=February 23, 2005
|accessdate=June 27, 2006
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1360
|title=Staff Editorial
|publisher=The Spectator
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050223084654/http://spectator.stuy.edu/display.cgi?id=1360
|archivedate=February 23, 2005
|accessdate=June 27, 2006
}}</ref>

Before the [[SAT#2005 changes|2005 revision of the SAT]], Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of 1408 out of 1600 (685 verbal, 723 math).<ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> {{As of|2008}}, the average score is 2090 out of 2400.<ref name="NYTSAT">{{cite news
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/11/16/nyregion/16cards.graf01.ready.html
|title=Two Different Measures
|author=Jennifer Medina
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|date=November 15, 2008
}}</ref> Stuyvesant also was the high school with the highest number of Advanced Placement exams taken, and also the highest number of students reaching the mastery level.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref>

== Public recognition ==
According to a September 2002 high school ranking by ''[[Worth (magazine)|Worth]]'' magazine, 3.67% of Stuyvesant students went on to attend [[Harvard University|Harvard]], [[Princeton University|Princeton]], and [[Yale University|Yale]] Universities, ranking it as the 9th top public high school in the United States and 120th among all schools, public or private.<ref>{{cite journal
|url=http://chronicle.com/daily/2002/08/2002082603n.htm
|archiveurl=http://www.utsystem.edu/News/Clips/DailyClips/2002/0825-0831/HigherEd-CHE-ElitePrivateHighSchools-082602.pdf
|archivedate=August 19, 2009
|title=Elite Private High Schools Serve as 'Feeder System' Into Top Colleges, Magazine Reports
|first=Richard
|last=Morgan
|journal=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]
|date=August 26, 2002
|format={{dead link|date=March 2010}}
}}</ref> In December 2007, ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' studied the freshman classes at eight selective colleges (Harvard, Princeton, [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Williams College]], [[Pomona College]], [[Swarthmore College]], [[University of Chicago|U. Chicago]], and [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]]), and reported that Stuyvesant sent 67, or 9.9% of its 674 seniors, to them.<ref name="WSJ_StackUp">{{cite news
|url=http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/info-COLLEGE0711-sort.html
|title=How the Schools Stack Up
|first=Ellen
|last=Gamerman
|coauthers=Juliet Chung, SungHa Park and Candace Jackson
|publisher=[[The Wall Street Journal]]
|date=December 28, 2007
|accessdate=January 1, 2008}}</ref>

Stuyvesant, along with other similar schools, has regularly been excluded from Newsweek's annual list of the Top 100 Public High Schools. The May 8th, 2008 issue states the reason as being, "because so many of their students score well above average on the [[SAT]] and [[ACT (examination)|ACT]]."<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/34509
|title=What Makes a High School Great?
|last=Kantrowitz
|first=Barbara
|coauthors=Pat Wingert
|work=[[Newsweek]]
|date=May 8, 2006
|accessdate=April 12, 2008
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380
|title=America's Best High Schools FAQ
|first=Jay
|last=Mathews
|authorlink=Jay Mathews
|work=[[Newsweek]]
|date=May 8, 2005
|accessdate=August 2, 2006
}}</ref> ''US News & World Report'', however, included Stuyvesant on its list of "Best High Schools" published in December 2009, ranking 31st.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2007/11/30/2007-11-30_us_news__world_report_gives_city_schools.html
|title=U.S. News & World Report gives city schools high marks in new list
|first=Carrie
|last=Melago
|work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]
|date=March 11, 2007
|accessdate=March 31, 2008
}}</ref>

==School facilities==
[[Image:Stuyvesant-library-interior.jpg|left|thumb|Interior of the library, showing the computers that were installed in late 2005.]]
[[Image:Danny-Jaye---Rothenberg-mem.jpg|left|thumb|The Rothenberg memorial]]
By the 1980s, the East 15th Street building was no longer a quality educational facility by modern standards. The five-story building, pictured in the black and white postcard above, was also overwhelmed by the several thousand students, leading the New York City Board of Education to secure an agreement with the Battery Park City Authority for a new building, and construction began in 1989. The new ten-floor building, located near lower Manhattan's [[Financial District, Manhattan|financial district]] was designed by [[Cooper, Robertson & Partners]]. At a cost of about $148 million, it included 65 classrooms, about 450 computers on 13 networks, 7 pairs of [[escalator]]s, various indoor sporting facilities including two [[gym]]nasiums and a pool built to [[PSAL|Public Schools Athletic League]] standards, a theater with acoustics and lighting to accommodate music and drama productions, two lecture halls with movable partitions, a skylit [[cafeteria]] overlooking the [[Hudson River]], 12 science laboratories (including a [[molecular biology]] lab and an [[analytical chemistry]] lab) and special shops for instruction in [[Ceramic art|ceramics]], [[photography]], [[Woodworking|wood]], [[plastic]]s, [[metalworking|metal work]], [[robot]]ics and energy studies. One room, called the ''Museum Room'', was built as a replica of a room in the 15th Street Stuyvesant building as a request by students, with desks, chairs, a table and blackboard brought from there, as well as paint and flooring in its style. The room was dedicated to teacher Dr. A. Edward Stefanacci, who died in 1993. The school's library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref>

The New York City Department of Education reports that public per student spending at Stuyvesant is slightly lower than the city average.<ref name="NYCDOE2003"/> Stuyvesant also receives private contributions.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080228195504/http://www.ourstrongband.org/Videos/CampaignForStuyvesant_Broadband.wmv
|archivedate=February 28, 2008
|title=Stuyvesant promotional video
|format=video (WMV)
|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Shortly after the new building was completed, the $10 million [[TriBeCa]] Bridge was built to allow students to enter the building without having to cross the busy West Street.

The new school building was designed to be fully compliant with the [[Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990|Americans with Disabilities Act]], 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 older (aged 15&ndash;21) students with multiple [[disability|disabilities]] and [[mental retardation]].<ref name="accessibility">{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41ACD8D4-DDD2-4F1A-AEF0-AF3A9D132EBB/0/ListofAccessibleSchools2007.pdf
|title=Current List of Accessible Schools
|month=June
|year=2007
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|format=PDF
|pages=23
|accessdate=March 28, 2008
}}</ref>

In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor was dedicated to Dr. Richard Rothenberg, the math 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 &mdash; one for each year of his life &mdash; behind a glass wall, featuring mathematical concepts and reflections on Rothenberg.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.culturenow.org/ManhattanArtNOW/index.php?page=display_entry&work_num=1652
|accessdate=March 17, 2009
|title=Celebration (Richard Rothenberg Memorial), 1999
|work=CultureNOW
}}</ref>

{{As of|2008}}, the 15th Street building houses the Institute for Collaborative Education,<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M407/default.htm
|title=Welcome, Institute for Collaborative Education, M407
|date=August 27, 2008
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|accessdate=August 27, 2008
}}</ref> P.S. M226,<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M226/default.htm
|title=Welcome, P.S. M226, M226
|date=August 27, 2008
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|accessdate=August 27, 2008
}}</ref> and the High School for Health Professions and Human Services,<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M420/default.htm
|title=Welcome, High School for Health Professions and Human Services, M420
|date=August 27, 2008
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|accessdate=August 27, 2008
}}</ref> and the 23rd Street building is the home of P.S. 347, the American Sign Language and English Lower School.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.47lowerschool.org/site_res_view_template.aspx?id=9cb3255c-8fcf-4499-a535-266d28c513a2
|title=Directions and parking info
|date=October 30, 2006
|publisher=American Sign Language and English Lower School (PS 347)
|accessdate=August 27, 2008
}}</ref>

===Summary of Floors===

*1st: The Music Department, Theater, Pool, and various offices.
*2nd: The main entrance from the Bridge, as well as some history rooms.
*3rd: The Global department, featuring most of the Global rooms, as well as a small number of Computer Science Classrooms and the 3rd floor gym.
*4th: The Math department and some Computer Science classrooms.
*5th: The lunchroom, and the foreign languages department. The locker rooms are also on the 5th floor.
*6th: The 6th floor gym, the Library, as well as the English Department are all on the 6th floor.
*7th: The Biology Department. Both classrooms and Lab Rooms are on the 7th floor.
*8th: The Physics department.
*9th: The Chemistry department.
*10th: The tenth floor has art classrooms, language classrooms, and some technical drawing classrooms, as well as the blackbox studio, where one-acts and other small peformances are put on throughout the year.

==Mnemonics (public artwork)==
[[Image:92B Mnemonics Students02 (546.3KB).jpg|right|thumb|300px|''Mnemonics'', 1992 (Kristin Jones/Andrew Ginzel)]]
During construction, the [[Battery Park City Authority]] in conjunction with the Percent for Art Program of the City of New York, the Department of Cultural Affairs and the [[New York City Department of Education|New York City Board of Education]] commissioned ''Mnemonics'', an artwork by public artists [[Jones/Ginzel|Kristin Jones]] and [[Jones/Ginzel|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 that are evidence of geographical, 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 a section of the [[Great Wall of China]], fragments of the Mayan [[pyramid]]s, leaves from the sacred [[Sacred fig|Bo tree]], water from the [[Nile]] and [[Ganges]] Rivers, a [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] button, pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building, a report card of a student of the old building, and of monuments around the world, various chemical compounds, and memorabilia from each of the 88 years' history of the 15th Street building. As an ongoing work, empty blocks were installed, to be filled with items chosen by the 88 graduating classes following its installation, up through 2080.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuy.edu/stuycube/
|title=Stuy³: A site about Mnemonics
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=January 26, 2008
}}</ref> The installation received the Award for Excellence in Design from the Art Commission of the City of New York.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.jonesginzel.com/PROJECTS/ALL/mnemonics/mnemonics.html
|title=Kristin Jones - Andrew Ginzel
|publisher=Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel
|date=April 20, 2007
|accessdate=February 14, 2008
}}</ref>

==Extracurricular activities==
[[Image:Stuydoors.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Entrance from the TriBeCa Bridge]]
===Sports===
Stuyvesant fields 32 [[varsity team]]s,<ref name="PSAL_profile"/> including a [[swimming (sport)|swimming]] team, as well as [[golf]], [[bowling]], [[volleyball]], [[Association football|soccer]], [[basketball]], [[gymnastics]], [[scholastic wrestling|wrestling]], [[fencing]], [[baseball]]/[[softball]], [[American handball|handball]], [[tennis]], [[Track and field athletics|track]]/[[Cross country running|cross country]],<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.psal.org/psalsports/news/psal_stories.asp?ID=15388
|title=PSAL Cross Country City Championship Results
|publisher=Public Schools Athetic League
|date=November 10, 2007
|accessdate=January 1, 2008
}}</ref> [[cricket]], [[High school football|football]],<ref name="PSAL_profile"/> and starting in Spring 2008, [[lacrosse]] teams.<ref name="PSAL_profile"/> In addition, Stuyvesant club teams include boys' varsity and junior varsity, and girls' varsity [[Ultimate (sport)|Ultimate]] teams. The boys' Ultimate team, the Stuyvesant Sticky Fingers, won the UPA New York State Championships and New York City Championships in 2009. The girls' Ultimate team, Sticky Fingers, won the [[Ultimate Players Association|UPA]] [[Ultimate Players Association#Youth Championships|Junior National tournament]] in 1998.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.rivative.net/ultimate/1996_1998/98nationals_hs.html
|title=1998 High School (Juniors) Nationals
|first=Tony
|last=Leonardo
|year=1998
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20060517164423/http://www.rivative.net/ultimate/1996_1998/98nationals_hs.html
|archivedate=May 17, 2006
|accessdate=January 26, 2008
}}</ref> The Stuyvesant Cross Country team was [[PSAL|Public Schools Athletic League]] (PSAL) City Champions in 2004, 2005 and 2007, and have been Manhattan Borough Triple Crown Champions since 1999.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.psal.org/psalsports/articles/psal_stories.aspx?storyid=15392
|title=Curtis Girls and Stuyvesant Boys Shine at PSAL XC Championships
|first=Michael
|last=Graber
|publisher=Public Schools Athetic League
|date=November 30, 2007
|accessdate=January 26, 2008
}}</ref> The Stuyvesant Boys Swimming Team, the Pirates, have been PSAL City Champions consecutively since 2000 and Opens champions since 1995.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.psal.org/psalsports/articles/psal_stories.aspx?storyid=14718
|title=PSAL Boys Swimming Champions
|publisher=Public Schools Athetic League
|accessdate=January 26, 2008
}}</ref> The girls soccer team, the Mimbas, brought home the City Championship title in 2001, 2004, and 2005, despite a severe lack of practice space and lack of a home field.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.psal.org/psalsports/articles/psal_stories.aspx?storyid=14690
|title=PSAL Girls Soccer Champions
|publisher= Public Schools Athetic League
|accessdate=January 26, 2008
}}</ref> Stuyvesant is also a powerhouse in fencing with a string of PSAL city championships from 1986 through 1989 and again as recently as 2005 and 2007.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.psal.org/psalsports/articles/psal_stories.aspx?storyid=14573
|title=PSAL Boys Fencing Champions
|publisher= Public Schools Athetic League
|accessdate=January 26, 2008
}}</ref>

In September 2007 the Stuyvesant football team were granted a home field at Pier 40. Stuyvesant does not, however, have a track, baseball field, or tennis court, although the new building does have a pool.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://physed.stuy.edu/sportsteam.html
|title=Stuyvesant Athletics
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref>

Unlike most American high schools, most sports teams at Stuyvesant have their own name, such as the Runnin' Rebels (boys' Basketball), Vixens (girls' Volleyball), Lemurs (boys' Gymnastics), Phoenix (girls' Basketball), Renegades (girls' Softball), Felines (girls' Gymnastics), Peglegs (Football and boys' Lacrosse), Hookers (boys' Bowling), Pinheads (girls' Bowling), Huskies (girls' Lacrosse), Penguins (girls' Swimming), Pirates (boys' Swimming), Ballers (boys' Soccer), Mimbas (girls' Soccer), The Furies (girls' Handball), Dragons (boys' Handball), Smokin' Aces (boys' Tennis), Sticky Fingers (boys' and girls' Ultimate), Lobsters (girls' Tennis), Hitmen (Baseball), Untouchables (boys' and girls' Fencing) Flying Dutchmen (Hockey), Tigers (Cricket) and Spartans (Wrestling and Roller Hockey).<ref name="PSAL_profile">{{cite web
|url=http://www.psal.org/psalsports/school/psal_schoolprofile.asp?cschool=02519
|title=PSAL profile: Stuyvesant
|publisher=Public Schools Athletic League
|accessdate=September 17, 2007
}}</ref> These names tend to change with time.

===ARISTA===

The Stuyvesant chapter of ARISTA, the National Honor Society, was founded in 1910. It is an organization dedicated to upholding the four pillars of Character, Scholarship, Leadership, and Service. ARISTA is highly selective. Once selected, ARISTA's members are asked to complete a service requirement of 10 credits per month and to uphold all the pillars for which this organization stands. The ARISTA Executive Council consists of the President, Vice President, Vice President of Events and Services, Vice President of Tutoring, and Vice President of Communications. The ARISTA office is located in the Student Government Room, behind the Senior Bar. ARISTA provides a number of important and useful programs to the community, the school, and the student body.

ARISTA's Tutoring Service includes many programs both inside and outside of school and online.
First of these programs is the Peer Tutoring Service, sponsored by the Tutoring Committee and directed by the Vice President of Tutoring. Peer tutoring allows any student who is having trouble in any subject to get help. Also, The Tutoring Committee sponsors numerous Peer Study Workshops throughout the year. New this year is tutoring online.

ARISTA's Events and Service Committee, headed by the Vice President of Events and Services, offer many volunteer opportunities both in school and out of school. Their activities include but are not limited to: monitoring for department offices, ushering for school theater productions, volunteering at parent teacher conferences, working at Soup Kitchens, tutoring at local elementary schools, participating in various walks (such as the MS Walk and the AIDS Walk), and volunteering at Stuyvesant's Open House Events.

===Student government===
The student body of Stuyvesant is represented by the Stuyvesant [[Student governments in the United States|Student Union]],<ref name="NYCDOEprofile"/> a group of elected and appointed students who serve the student body in two important areas:<ref name="studunion1">{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuysu.org/www/getpage.php?cat=community&name=Constitution
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080205210441/http://www.stuysu.org/www/getpage.php?cat=community&name=Constitution
|archivedate=February 5, 2008
|title=Constitution of the Student Union
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School Student Union
|accessdate=March 27, 2008
}}</ref>
#Improving student life by promoting and managing extracurricular activities (clubs and publications), and by organizing out-of-school activity such as city excursions or fund-raisers.
#Providing a voice to the student body in all discussion of school policy with the administration.

===Clubs and publications===
Stuyvesant offers clubs, publications, teams and other opportunities under a system similar to that of many colleges. It hosts over 200 clubs ranging from The Thinkers (philosophy) club, to the Photography Club.<ref name="clubsandpubs">{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuysu.org/cp
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080209145929/http://www.stuysu.org/cp
|archivedate=February 9, 2008
|title=Clubs and Pubs
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School Student Union
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref> The sheer number of clubs at the school is due to Stuyvesant's relatively free policy of "student rule". Most clubs are entirely student run, requiring only a Faculty Advisor to maintain their existence. One example of this policy is the Stuyvesant [[Model United Nations|Model UN]] club, which is one of the largest clubs in the school. The club attends as many as 6 Model UN Conferences each year, held at various Colleges across the Northeast. The club also hosts StuyMUNC, an annual conference organized and run almost entirely by the students. Stuyvesant also has a [[Junior State of America]] program (a political debate club). The Stuyvesant Theater Community puts on three student-run productions a year (a fall [[musical theatre|musical]], a winter [[drama]], and a spring [[comedy]]) as well as a one-act festival and several smaller studio productions.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuytheater.org
|title=Stuyvesant Theater Community
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070516042316/http://www.stuytheater.org/
|archivedate=May 16, 2007
}}</ref> [[Key Club]] International's branch at Stuyvesant was founded in 1990. With over 350 members, it is one of the largest clubs in the school.

====''The Spectator''====

{{Main|The Stuyvesant Spectator}}
''The Spectator'' is Stuyvesant's official school newspaper. It contains eleven sections: news, features, op-ed, arts & entertainment, sports, photography, art, layout, copy, business, and web. Most departments are headed by at least two editors, all of whom encompass the editorial board of the paper. The editorial board meets daily in the ''Spectator'' [[journalism]] class and is headed by the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor, or two Editors in Chief. At the start of their term, the Executive Editors select three or four editors to be members of the Managing Board, a group that advises the Executive Editors on matters relating to the paper. There are over 250 total staff members who help to produce the bi-weekly publication. At the beginning of the fall and spring terms, there are recruitments, but interested students may join at any time. ''The Spectator'' is independent from the school, but it remains a prime news source for students, teachers, and administrators.

''The Spectator'', founded in 1915, is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications.<ref name="extracurriculars">{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#Spectator
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070928022536/http://www.stuyvesant.ourstrongband.org/extracurriculars.htm#Spectator
|archivedate=September 28, 2007
|title=The Spectator
|work=Stuyvesant High School Extra-curricula's
|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant
|accessdate=March 18, 2007
}}</ref> It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake, [[Columbia University|Columbia University's]] ''[[Columbia Daily Spectator]]'', and it has been recognized by the [[Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism|Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's]] [[Columbia Scholastic Press Association]] on several occasions, most recently in 2009.<ref>{{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]]
|accessdate=May 28, 2006
}}</ref>

====''The Stuyvesant Standard''====
Founded in 2001, ''The Stuyvesant Standard'' is a [[non-profit organization|non-profit]] bi-weekly newspaper published by Stuyvesant students. The newspaper is independent and does not receive its funding from the Student Union. It covers school news as well as current events, and contains "interest sections" such as Business, Science, and Technology alongside the standard departments of Opinions, Literacy, Sports, and Arts & Entertainment. ''The Stuyvesant Standard'' distributes 2,000 free copies bi-weekly within the Stuyvesant community and throughout the adjoining neighborhoods of [[TriBeCa]] and [[Battery Park City]].

[[Image:Voice May1977.jpg|thumb|right|Cover of the May 1977 issue of ''The Voice'']]

====''The Voice''====
''The Voice'' was founded in the 1973&ndash;74 academic year as an independent publication only loosely sanctioned by school officials.<ref name="extracurriculars"/> It had the appearance of a magazine and gained a large readership. ''The Voice'' attracted a considerable amount of controversy and a [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] lawsuit, after which the administration forced it to go off-campus and to turn commercial in 1975&ndash;76.<ref name="extracurriculars"/>

In the beginning of the 1975&ndash;76 academic year, ''The Voice'' decided to publish the results of a confidential random survey measuring the "sexual attitudes, preferences, knowledge and experience" of the students.<ref name="SDNY">{{cite court
|litigants=Trachtman v. Anker
|vol=426
|reporter=F.Supp.
|opinion=198
|court=S.D.N.Y.
|year=1976
}}</ref> The administration refused to permit ''The Voice'' to distribute the questionnaire, and the Board of Education refused to intervene, believing that "irreparable psychological damage" would be occasioned on some of the students receiving it.<ref name="SDNY"/>

The editor-in-chief of ''The Voice'', Jeff Trachtman,<ref>Trachtman eventually went to [[New York University School of Law|law school]], [[law clerk|clerked]] for Judge Motley, and became a partner at [[Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel]]. He cited his Stuyvesant experience as the motivation for becoming an attorney. {{cite news
|url=http://www.nylawyer.com/display.php/file=/probono/news/07/031607a
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080102054036/http://www.nylawyer.com/display.php/file=/probono/news/07/031607a
|archivedate=January 2, 2008
|title=Conversation with Jeffrey S. Trachtman
|first=Thomas
|last=Adcock
|publisher=New York Lawyer
|date=March 16, 2007
|accessdate=March 18, 2007
}}</ref> brought a First Amendment challenge to this decision in the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York]] in front of [[United States federal judge|Judge]] [[Constance Baker Motley]].<ref name="SDNY"/> Judge Motley, relying on the relatively recent [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] precedent ''[[Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District]]'' (holding that "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression"),<ref>393 U.S. 503, 508 (1969)</ref> ordered the Board of Education to come up with an arrangement permitting 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]].<ref name="2d Cir.">{{cite court
|litigants=Trachtman v. Anker
|vol=563
|reporter=F.2d
|opinion=512
|court=2d Cir.
|year=1977
}}</ref> Judge [[J. Edward Lumbard]], joined by Judge [[Murray Gurfein]] and over an impassioned dissent by Judge [[Walter R. Mansfield]], held that the distribution of the questionnaires was properly disallowed by the administration as there was "a substantial basis for defendants' belief that distribution of the questionnaire would result in significant emotional harm to a number of students throughout the Stuyvesant population."<ref name="2d Cir."/> The Supreme Court denied [[certiorari]] review.<ref>{{cite court
|litigants=Trachtman v. Anker
|vol=435
|reporter=U.S.
|opinion=925
|year=1978
}}</ref>

[[Image:Math-survey-vol-75-no-1.jpg|left|thumb|150px|''Math Survey'', Stuyvesant's resident mathematics publication]]

==== Culture Festival ====

Stuyvesant's Culture Festival is a student organized event that originated as individual Culture Nights but became a gathering of all cultures in 2007. The Culture Festival is a promotion of Stuyvesant's culturally diverse student body. Though its position as an annual school event is still in question, its increasing popularity and student participation has already made it a new Stuyvesant tradition. Culture Festival performances try to encompass a wide variety of cultures - African, Bengali, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Irish, Japanese, Greek, and many more. Performances include martial arts, comedic skits, instrumentals, singing, and traditional dances such as the Chinese flag dance and Irish Step Dance. There is also an International Buffet in the school cafeteria right before the show.

[http://www.vimeo.com/2262160 SUVH's Culture Festival Promotion Video] | [http://stuyspectator.com/2007/11/05/individual-culture-nights-combined-into-one-festival/ 2007] | [http://stuyspectator.com/2008/01/21/first-culture-festival-produces-mixed-opinions/ Review on First Culture Festival] | [http://stuyspectator.com/2008/12/01/culture-fest-dancing-and-dining/ 2008's Culture Festival]

==== Other publications ====
* ''Antares'', the Sci-fi and Fantasy Magazine.
* ''Caliper'', Stuyvesant's biannual literary magazine. ''Caliper'' is one of the oldest high school literary publications in the nation, and along with monthly open mic sessions, helps the Stuyvesant literary community flourish in an environment focusing on math and science.
* ''Indicator'', the Stuyvesant yearbook.
* ''Math Survey'', the annual Math Department publication. Many of Stuyvesant's notable mathematicians were first published in ''Math Survey''.
* ''Inspiration Magazine'', an art and literary publication sponsored by the Music and Arts Department.
* ''The Broken Escalator'', a humor publication, styled after [[The Onion]], featuring joke articles about Stuyvesant.
* ''The Biomed Times'', the annual journal of recent biological developments.
* ''The Edible'', the bi-annual food and culture magazine.
* ''VOLUME'', an open short-format publication with articles from 3 - 300 words.
* ''The Locksmith'', the monthly publication of Stuyvesant High School Key Club. [http://stuykc.org/boomba/locksmith-issues.html]
* ''THE MUSIC'', a magazine covering all aspects of the music scene. (THE MUSIC website [http://www.thestuymusic.com/])

=== Academic teams ===
Stuyvesant's academic teams include its nationally recognized Speech and [[Debate]] team, [[quizbowl|Quiz Bowl]], [[chess]], and math, which regularly compete successfully at major regional ([[New York State Mathematics League]]), national ([[American Regions Mathematics League]]), and international ([[International Mathematical Olympiad]]) tournaments, and whose members fill up a considerable percentage of the New York City Math Team.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.nycmathteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/ARML%20teams%202008.doc
|title=New York City ARML Teams 2008
|publisher=New York City Math Team
|accessdate=October 1, 2008
}}</ref> A [[FIRST Robotics Competition|FIRST]] team,<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuypulse.com
|title=Stuyvesant Robotics 694
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School FIRST Team
|accessdate=March 4, 2009
}}</ref> StuyPulse, was founded in 2000. Stuyvesant also has a [[Model United Nations]] team, a Junior State of America chapter, and a Model Congress team which competes at regional colleges. The Model United Nations team hosts StuyMUNC,<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://stuymun.googlepages.com/home.html
|title=StuyMUNC
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School Model UN Team
|accessdate=April 2, 2008
}}</ref> an annual conference which takes place at Stuyvesant.

[[Image:Stuy sing v 1977.jpg|right|thumb|150px|SING V program, 1977]]

===SING!===
The annual theater competition known as [[SING!]] pits seniors, juniors, and "soph-frosh" (freshmen and sophomores working together) against each other in a race to put on the best performance. Started in 1947 at [[Midwood High School]] in Brooklyn, SING! is a tradition at many New York City high schools. At Stuyvesant, SING! started as a small event in 1973 and has grown to a huge school-wide event&mdash;in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, directed, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from being members of the production's casts, choruses, or costume and tech crews to Irish dance, Step, Bollywood, Hip-Hop, Swing, Ballet, Jazz or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late January to February and culminates 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.

==Student body==
Stuyvesant has contributed to the education of several [[Nobel Prize|Nobel]] laureates, winners of the [[Fields Medal]] and the [[Wolf Prize]], and a host of other [[List of Stuyvesant High School people|accomplished alumni]]. In recent years, it has had the second highest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, behind Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, in Alexandria, Virginia,<ref>http://www.getlisty.com/preview/2009-top-high-schools-by-national-merit-semi-finalists</ref> and regularly trades off the leading position in the number of Intel Science Talent Search Semi-Finalists and Finalists with Bronx Science.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.math.uncc.edu/~hbreiter/doc9.htm
|title=Nurturing Science's Young Elite: Westinghouse Talent Search
|first=Scott
|last=Huler
|publisher=[[The Scientist]]
|date=April 15, 1991
|accessdate=July 9, 2006
}}</ref>

For most of the 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant was heavily [[American Jews|Jewish]]. A significant influx of [[Asian American|Asian]] students began in the 1970s. For the 2008&ndash;2009 academic year, the student body was approximately 67% Asian American and 27% [[White American|Caucasian]], 2% [[African American|Blacks]] and 3% [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanics]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/02/M475/AboutUs/Statistics/register.htm
|title=Stuyvesant High School
|publisher=[[New York City Department of Education]]
|year=2008
|accessdate=November 12, 2008
}}</ref> Stuyvesant possesses a racial breakdown that is far out of proportion to national and local population distributions.<ref name="NYCDOE2003"/><ref name="Stern2003">{{cite web
|url=http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3347501.html
|title=Façade of Excellence
|first=Sol
|last=Stern
|publisher=[[Hoover Institution]]
|year=2003
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> (See also [[New York City#Demographics|Demographics of New York City]].) Stuyvesant only admits students from New York City, but some who used city addresses to register for the school do travel from Long Island and New Jersey. Many others have long commutes from all five boroughs.

==Stuyvesant and 9/11==
Stuyvesant is a half-[[mile]] (approx. 800&nbsp;[[metre|m]]) or a five-minute walk from [[World Trade Center site|the former site]] of the World Trade Center, which was destroyed on [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]]. The school was evacuated during the attack. Although the smoke cloud coming from the World Trade Center engulfed the building at one point, there was no structural damage to the building, and there were no reports of physical injuries. Less than an hour after the collapse of the second WTC tower, concern over a bomb threat at the school prompted an evacuation of the surrounding area, as reported live by [[NBC]] news reporter Pat Dawson on the ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today]]'' show.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UalzbIX5_Ag |title=Pat Dawson on 9/11 |last=Dawson |first=Pat |date=September 11, 2001 |work=[[Today (NBC program)|Today show]]|publisher=[[NBC]] |accessdate=December 16, 2009}}</ref>

When classes resumed on September 21, 2001, students were moved to Brooklyn Technical High School while the Stuyvesant building served as a base of operations for rescue and recovery workers. This caused serious congestion at Brooklyn Tech, and required the students to attend in two shifts, with the Stuyvesant students attending the evening shift. Normal classes resumed three weeks later on October 9.
[[Image:Spectator 9-11.jpg|right|thumb|150px|The 9/11 issue of ''The Spectator'']]
Because Stuyvesant was close to [[Ground zero#World Trade Center|Ground Zero]], there were concerns of [[asbestos]] exposure. The [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|US EPA]] indicated at that time that Stuyvesant was safe from asbestos, and conducted a thorough cleaning of the Stuyvesant building, but the Stuyvesant High School Parents' Association has contested the accuracy of the assessment.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.stuypa.org/Environment/OIG%20Summary%2009-15-03.doc
|title=Parents' Association briefing about EPA report
|first=Dave
|last=Newman
|publisher=Stuvesant High School Parents Association
|date=September 15, 2003
|format=MS-Word
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Some problems, including former teacher Mark Bodenheimer's respiratory problems, have been reported—he accepted a transfer to The Bronx High School of Science after having difficulty continuing his work at Stuyvesant. Other isolated cases include Stuyvesant's 2002 Class President Amit Friedlander, a graduate of the [[University of Pennsylvania]], who received local press coverage in September 2006 after he was diagnosed with cancer.<ref name="SUN_20061002">{{cite news
|url=http://www.nysun.com/new-york/stuyvesant-grads-say-they-returned-too-soon-after/40726/
|title=Stuyvesant Grads Say They Returned Too Soon After 9/11
|first=Eric
|last=Krangle
|publisher=[[The New York Sun]]
|date=October 2, 2006
|accessdate=October 4, 2006
}}</ref> While there have been other cases linked to the same dust cloud that emanated from ground zero, a spot precariously close to Stuyvesant,<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/new-york-links-death-to-911-dust/20070524102409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
|title=New York Links Death to 9/11 Dust
|first=Amy
|last=Westfeldt
|publisher=[[Associated Press]]
|date=May 24, 2007
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070528170511/http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/new-york-links-death-to-911-dust/20070524102409990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
|archivedate=May 28, 2007
|accessdate=May 24, 2007
}}</ref> there is no definitive evidence that such cases have directly affected the Stuyvesant community. Stuyvesant students did spend a full year in the building before the theater and air systems were cleaned, however, and a group of Stuyvesant alumni is currently lobbying for health insurance as a result.<ref name="SUN_20061002"/>

Alumni who were killed in the World Trade Center attack include Daniel D. Bergstein (1980),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=519
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181229/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=519
|archivedate=September 30, 2007
|title=Daniel D. Bergstein
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Alan Wayne Friedlander (1967),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1113
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181320/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1113
|archivedate=September 30, 2007
|title=Alan Wayne Friedlander
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Marina R. Gertsberg (1993),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1173
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080208194259/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1173
|archivedate=February 8, 2008
|title=Marina R. Gertsberg
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Aaron J. Horwitz (1994),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1383
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181206/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1383
|archivedate=September 30, 2007
|title=Aaron J. Horwitz
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> David S. Lee (1982),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=3515
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181451/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=3515
|archivedate=September 30, 2007
|title=David S. Lee
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Arnold A. Lim (1990),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1650
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181250/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=1650
|archivedate=September 30, 2007
|title=Arnold A. Lim
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Gregory D. Richards (1988),<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2275
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070930181432/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2275
|archivedate=September 30, 2007
|title=Gregory D. Richards
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> Maurita Tam (1997)<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2602
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071117060900/http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2602
|archivedate=November 17, 2007
|title=Maurita Tam
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> and Michael Warchola (1968).<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2747
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071018210917/http://september11victims.com/september11victims/VictimInfo.asp?ID=2747
|archivedate=October 18, 2007
|title=Michael Warchola
|publisher=September 11, 2001 Victims
|accessdate=March 8, 2006
}}</ref> [[Richard Ben-Veniste]] (1960) was on the [[9/11 Commission]].

On October 2, 2001, the school paper, ''The Spectator'', under Editor in Chief Jeff Orlowski and Faculty Advisor Holly Ojalvo, created a special 24-page full-color 9/11 insert containing student photos, reflections and stories. On November 20, 2001, the magazine was distributed for free in 830,000 copies of ''[[The New York Times]]'' to the entire New York Greater Metropolitan Area.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/specials/terrorism/stuy.pdf
|title=September 11th 2001 Special Edition
|work=The Spectator
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|date=Fall 2001
|format=PDF
|archiveurl=http://stuyspectator.com/pdf/wtc.pdf
|archivedate=June 8, 2009
|accessdate=September 16, 2007
}}</ref>

In the months after 9/11, Annie Thoms (1993), 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 9/11 and turn them into a series of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as ''With Their Eyes: September 11&mdash;The View from a High School at Ground Zero''. Alexander Epstein of ''The Stuyvesant Standard'' contributed the section ''Out of the Blue'' to the book ''At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories''.

==Notable people==
{{Main|List of Stuyvesant High School people}}
{{See also|Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni}}
Notable scientists among Stuyvesant alumni include mathematician [[Paul Cohen (mathematician)|Paul Cohen]],<ref name="PaulCohen">{{cite news
|url=http://news-service.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
|accessdate=October 31, 2007
}}</ref> String Theorist [[Brian Greene]], and genomic researcher [[Eric Lander]].<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/genomics/lander.html
|title=Eric S. Lander, Ph.D.
|first=Karen
|last=Hopkin
|accessdate=October 31, 2007
}}</ref> Other prominent alumni include entertainers such as ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' star [[Lucy Liu]],<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|accessdate=November 1, 2007
}}</ref> ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]'' star [[Tim Robbins]],<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Tim_Robbins
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070804064345/http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Tim_Robbins
|archivedate=August 4, 2007
|title=Inside the Actors Studio - Guests - Tim Robbins
|date=December 5, 1999
|publisher=[[Bravo (US TV network)|Bravo]]
|accessdate=November 1, 2007
}}</ref> actor [[James Cagney]],<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0717.html
|title=James Cagney Is Dead at 86; Master of Pugnacious Grace
|first=Peter
|last=Flint
|date=March 31, 1986
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|accessdate=November 1, 2007
}}</ref> comedian [[Paul Reiser]]<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|accessdate=June 27, 2009}}</ref> and [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] basketball player and game fixer/[[bookmaker]] [[Jack Molinas]].<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/books/double-dribbling.html
|title=Double Dribbling
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|first=Eric
|last=Konigsberg
|date=March 3, 2002
|accessdate=November 12, 2008
}}</ref>

In government and politics, the current [[Attorney General of the United States]] [[Eric Holder]] is a Stuyvesant alumnus (1969),<ref>{{cite news
|title=Interview with Eric H. Holder, Jr.
|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/programs/dvl/files/Holder_Ericf.html
|last1=Tucker-Hamilton
|first1=Racine
|last2=Hickey
|first2=Matthew
|work=Oral history project
|publisher=The History Makers
|date=December 17, 2004
|accessdate=November 18, 2008}}</ref> as are Senior Advisor to the President [[David Axelrod]] (1972),<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|work=[[The Washington Post]]
|date=May 2, 2008
|accessdate=May 6, 2008
}}</ref> and former adviser to President Clinton [[Dick Morris]] (1964).<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|accessdate=November 2, 2007
}}</ref>

Four Nobel laureates are also alumni of Stuyvesant, including:
*[[Joshua Lederberg]] (1941) &ndash; [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], 1958<ref>{{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
|accessdate=October 31, 2007
}}</ref>
*[[Robert Fogel]] (1944) &ndash; [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences]], 1993<ref>{{cite magazine
|url=http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0726/features/human.shtml
|title=The human equation |first=Lydialyle
|last=Gibson
|journal=The University of Chicago Magazine
|publisher=[[University of Chicago]]
|month=May/June
|year=2007
|volume=99
|issue=5
|accessdate=October 31, 2007
}}</ref>
*[[Roald Hoffmann]] (1954) &ndash; [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], 1981<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.roaldhoffmann.com/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=11&page=1
|title=Roald Hoffmann's land between chemistry, poetry and philosophy
|accessdate=October 31, 2007
}}</ref>
*[[Richard Axel]] (1963) &ndash; [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]], 2004<ref>{{cite journal
|url=http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/news/journal/journal-o/winter-2005/nobility.html
|title=Richard Axel: One of the Nobility in Science
|first=Robin
|last=Eisner
|journal=P&S
|publisher=Columbia University
|date=Winter 2005
|accessdate=October 31, 2007
}}</ref>

Author [[Frank McCourt]] 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'', is all about McCourt's time at Stuyvesant, and mentions a number of students and faculty.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://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
|publisher=[[The New York Times]]
|accessdate=April 28, 2008
}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
Stuyvesant High School has been featured in television shows, films, books, and other media. The Stuyvesant High School building in Battery Park City was one of the main settings of the film ''[[Hackers (film)|Hackers]]'', standing in for the fictional "Stanton High School".<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.shsaa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=32
|title=News Archive - "Movie Set"
|publisher=Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association
|accessdate=April 28, 2008
}}</ref> As in the film, the new building has no pool on the roof, despite a long history of seniors selling "rooftop pool passes" to new freshmen in the old building. It does, however, have a pool on the ground floor and a roof deck for its technology classes. The feature-length [[documentary film|documentary]] ''Frontrunners'' was made about the Student Union elections at Stuyvesant.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.suhfilms.com
|title=FrontRunners The Film :: Is America Ready for a Teenage President?
|publisher=Suh Films
|accessdate=September 1, 2007
}}</ref>

The entrance to the high school is visible in the beginning of the music video for the [[Beastie Boys]] song "[[Ch-Check It Out]]", as the three rappers walk on the TriBeCa Bridge. [[Adam Horovitz]] of the Beastie Boys also wears a red Stuyvesant High School Physical Education leader T-shirt in the video for "[[(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)]]". This has sparked a rumor that one or all of the Boys attended Stuyvesant. In fact, only the band's original drummer, [[Kate Schellenbach]], did.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.time.com/time/musicgoesglobal/na/mmiked.html
|title=Q&A With Mike D. of the Beastie Boys
|first=Alex
|last=Smith
|work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]
|year=2001
|accessdate=April 25, 2008
| date=September 24, 2001
}}</ref>

Stuyvesant has been chronicled in popular literature based in New York City. The [[Jonathan Lethem]] novels ''[[Motherless Brooklyn]]'' and ''[[The Fortress of Solitude (novel)|Fortress of Solitude]]'' are prominent examples of this trend. In Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, Richie Perry, the main protagonist, attended Stuyvesant High School. In the 1984 novel ''[[Warday]]'', some former Stuyvesant students visit New York City after a limited nuclear exchange. In the 2003 novel ''[[The Russian Debutante's Handbook]]'' by Stuyvesant alumnus Gary Shteyngart, the protagonist Vladimir Girshkin attended a "science high school in Manhattan". The 2006 autobiographical young adult book, ''The Notebook Girls'', highlights the lives of four Stuyvesant students in the form of a journal. In August 2007, [[Simon & Schuster]] published 1985 alumnus and ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'' reporter Alec Klein's book on Stuyvesant entitled ''A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools''.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070805/13qa_print.htm/
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20071024033335/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070805/13qa_print.htm/
|archivedate=October 24, 2007
|title=At the Head of the Class
|author=Jack Mantey
|work=[[U.S. News & World Report]]
|date=August 5, 2007
|accessdate=August 7, 2007
}}</ref>
In 2006, a controversial article about the different sexual orientations in Stuyvesant and how they represent a national trend appeared in [[New York (magazine)|''New York'']] magazine.<ref>{{cite news
|url=http://nymag.com/news/features/15589/
|title=The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High School
|first=Alex
|last=Morris
|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]
|date=January 30, 2006
|accessdate=March 29, 2006
}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal box|New York City|Schools}}
*[[Education in New York City]]
*[[Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks]]
*[[National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology|National Consortium for Specialized Secondary Schools of Mathematics, Science and Technology (NCSSSMST)]]
{{-}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|2}}

== Further reading ==
===Articles===
* {{cite web
|url=http://www.abacusguide.com/stuyvesant_high_school.htm
|title=Abacus Guide to Stuyvesant High School
|first=Emily
|last=Glickman
|publisher=Abacus Guide Educational Consulting
|year=2002
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20050407041310/http://www.abacusguide.com/stuyvesant_high_school.htm
|archivedate=April 7, 2005
|accessdate=March 9, 2006
}}
* {{cite web
|url=http://www.alternet.org/911oneyearlater/14073
|title=Fallout: The Hidden Environmental Consequences of 9/11
|first=Juan
|last=Gonzalez
|publisher=[[In These Times]]
|date=September 10, 2002
|accessdate=March 9, 2006
}}
* {{cite web
|url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/bulk_dust_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610308
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20040125082038/http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/bulk_dust_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610308
|archivedate=January 25, 2004
|title=Monitoring Data: Stuyvesant High School
|publisher=[[United States Environmental Protection Agency]]
|accessdate=March 9, 2006
}}
* {{cite web
|url=http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/asbestos_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610406
|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070529025841/http://oaspub.epa.gov/nyr/asbestos_monitoring?p_addr_id=0360610406
|archivedate=May 29, 2007
|title=Monitoring Data: Stuyvesant High (North Side)
|publisher=[[United States Environmental Protection Agency]]
|accessdate=March 9, 2006
}}

===Books===
* {{cite book
|title=With Their Eyes: September 11&mdash;The View from a High School at Ground Zero
|first=Annie
|last=Thoms
|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]
|year=2002
|isbn=0-06-051718-2
}}
* {{cite book
|title=At Ground Zero: Young Reporters Who Were There Tell Their Stories
|first=Alexander
|last=Epstein
|editor=Sam Erman, Chris Bull
|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press
|month=September
|year=2002
|isbn=1-56025-427-0
}}
* {{cite book
|title=A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools
|first=Alec
|last=Klein
|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]
|month=August
|year=2007
|isbn=978-0743299442
}}
* {{cite book
|title=Teacher Man
|first=Frank
|last=McCourt
|publisher=Scribner
|month=November
|year=2005
|isbn=978-0743243773
}}
* {{cite book
|title=Stuyvesant High School: The First 100 Years
|first=Meyer
|last=Susann E.
|publisher=The Campaign for Stuyvesant
|year=2005
}}

== External links ==
{{wikiquote}}
{{Spoken Wikipedia|En-Stuy_High_School.ogg|July 11, 2006}}
{{Commons category|Stuyvesant High School}}
* [http://www.stuy.edu/ Stuyvesant HS official website]
** [http://register.stuy.edu/program_office/course_descriptions.html Course Catalog]
* [http://www.stuyspectator.com/ Stuyvesant High School's Official Newspaper&mdash;The Spectator]
* Conan O'Brien's 2006 graduation speech [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1698445 Part One] [http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1698444 Part Two]
* The {{cite web |url=http://65.104.11.121/Srv1948F/index.html |title=1948 ''Math Survey'' |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070928013847/http://65.104.11.121/Srv1948F/index.html |archivedate=September 28, 2007}}

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