Stuyvesant High School /ˈstaɪvəsənt/, commonly referred to as Stuy /ˈstaɪ/, is one of the nine Specialized High Schools in New York City. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, these schools offer tuition-free accelerated academics to city residents. The only way to be admitted into most of the Specialized High Schools, including Stuyvesant, is to take the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). Stuyvesant traditionally holds the highest cutoff score out of the Specialized High Schools; each November, over 28,000 eighth and ninth graders take the 21⁄2-hour exam, and roughly 800 students (less than 3% of applicants) are accepted annually.Stuyvesant students undertake a college preparatory curriculum which includes English, history, biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, foreign languages, two lab-based technology courses, and a semester each of introductory art, music, health, technical drawing, and computer science. Students can select from fifty-five Advanced Placement courses and over fifty electives, including ones about the mathematics of financial markets, system level programming, molecular biology, and science writing. Most students complete the New York City Regents curriculum by junior year and take calculus during their senior year, and the school offers math courses through differential equations for the more advanced students.Stuyvesant is noted for its strong academic programs, having produced many notable alumni including four Nobel laureates. U.S. News & World Report ranked it as the fifty-eighth best High School nationwide in their 2012 list of America's best "Gold-Medal" public high schools and fifth best in its 2012 list of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) schools. Stuyvesant students regularly place as semi-finalists and finalists in the Intel Science Talent Search. In the most recent three years, Stuyvesant sent the most semi-finalists out of any school in the nation, with 13 semi-finalists in 2012, 10 semi-finalists in 2013, and 11 in 2014.
Ceeb
334070
Faculty size
155
Founding year
1904
Mascot
Pegleg Pete
Motto
(Latin)
For knowledge and wisdom
Number of students
3278
School number
M475
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