Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan’s first manual trade school for boys. Notable alumni include former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, chemist Roald Hoffmann, and genome researcher Eric Lander. It is one of a very small group of secondary schools worldwide that can claim to have educated four or more Nobel laureates.
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Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan’s first manual trade school for boys. Notable alumni include former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall, chemist Roald Hoffmann, and genome researcher Eric Lander. The school has a wide range of extracurricular activities, including a theater competition called SING! and two student publications. It is one of a very small group of secondary schools worldwide that can claim to have educated four or more Nobel laureates. Admission to the school involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. The 800 to 850 applicants with the highest SHSAT scores out of the around 30,000 eighth- and ninth-graders who apply to Stuyvesan are accepted. The high school 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. In 1967, Alice de Rivera filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education, alleging that she had been banned from taking the newly-designed cyclotron test six years earlier. A later attempt at full-power operation, however, knocked out the power of the school and surrounding buildings. The old building now houses several high schools, including the Bronx High School of Science, which was founded in 1938 to include the Bronx University of the Arts and Science, and the New York City School of Music and Art, which opened in 1989. The new building is located on the former site of PS47, the former home of PS 47’s former building at 225 East 23rd Street.
The building is now home to several other public high schools and a private high school, including Brooklyn High School for the Performing Arts and the Brooklyn College of Music, as well as a private day school for the arts and science. The former location of the East Village High School was named after Peter Stuyvedt, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland. The name was chosen in order to avoid confusion with Brooklyn’s manual Training High School, which had opened in 1893. The current location is on East 15th Street, west of First Avenue, near the site of the former PS47’s former school building, which is now on the East Side of Manhattan. It was opened in 1904 as an all-boys school. An entrance examination was mandated for all applicants starting in 1934 and the school started accepting female students in 1969. In 1909, eighty percent of the School’s alumni went to college, compared to other schools, which only sent 25% to 50% of their graduates to college. In 1919, officials started restricting admission based on scholastic achievement. All of students would attend in the morning and afternoon classes, while others would take the afternoon and early evening classes in the afternoon. The School implemented a double session plan to accommodate the rising number of students in the rising number of classes. In 1957, the school implemented a system of entrance examinations in Spring 1957.
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