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Springfield High School
Location
45 W. Leamy Avenue
Springfield, PA 19064

United States
Information
TypePublic
MottoWe Believe All Children Can Read
Established1933
School districtSpringfield School District
PrincipalMr. Christopher Fulco
Grades9–12
Color(s)Blue and Gold
MascotCougar
Websitehttp://www.ssdcougars.org/SHS.ASP

Springfield High School is a Springfield Township public high school. The school opened in 1933 on W. Leamy Avenue and moved to a new building in at the same location after a fire in 1977. The school is noted for its strong academic programs, particularly english, history and math, and its wide range of Advanced Placement courses. A large percentage of its graduates go on to attend four year universities, nearly twenty percent more than the state average..

Together with E.T. Richardson Middle School, Sabold Elementary School and Scenic Hills Elementary School, SHS is one of the four public educational facilities of Springfield Township.

History

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Stuyvesant High School is named after Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland before the colony was transferred to England in 1664.[1]

The school was established in 1904 as a manual training school for boys, hosting 155 students and 12 teachers. In 1907, it moved from its original location at 225 East 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.[2]

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.[2][3]

In the 1930s, entrance examinations were implemented, making admission to the school even more competitive. During the 1950s, the building underwent a $2 million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries and cafeterias.[4]

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 '62 remembered that a later attempt at full-power operation "tanked the electrical system for the building and surrounding area".[5][6] left|thumb|Teacher Alfred Bender with the cyclotron 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.[7]

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 act called for a uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science and Stuyvesant High School. 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.[8]

In 1992, a new, waterfront building was constructed to house the high school (see school facilities).

During the 2003–2004 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 the recent years, keynote graduation speakers were Former President Bill Clinton (2002), GE CEO Jack Welch (2003), United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (2004), CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein (2005), and Late Night Comedian Conan O'Brien (2006).


Enrollment

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Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of about 3,100 and is open to residents of New York City entering either ninth or tenth grade. Enrollment is based solely on performance on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT).[9] The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include all of New York's specialized high schools except 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.[10] 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 28,000 of New York City's 90,000 eighth-graders sit for the test. Only about 850 applicants are offered admission to Stuyvesant. Ninth and rising tenth graders are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, though far fewer students are admitted this way.

View of the Stuyvesant building from the corner of West and Chambers Streets. The Tribeca Bridge is in the foreground.

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".[11] The current admission policy is available from the NYC Department of Education.[10] 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 ACORN have argued that the exam may be biased against African and Hispanic Americans.[12]

Stuyvesant has contributed to the education of several Nobel laureates, winners of the Fields Medal and the Wolf Prize, and a host of other accomplished alumni. It consistently leads the nation in the number of National Merit Scholarships awarded and regularly trades off the leading position in the number of Intel Science Talent Search Semi-Finalists and Finalists with Bronx Science.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]

Stuyvesant, along with other similar schools, has regularly been excluded from Newsweek's annual list of the Top 100 Public High Schools. The May 8, 2006, issue states the reason as being, "because so many of their students score well above average on the SAT and ACT."[20][21]

Before the revision of the SAT, Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of about 1410 (690 verbal, 724 math).[7] 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.[22]

School facilities

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Interior of the library, showing the computers that were installed in late 2005.
The seventh-to-ninth floor escalators. The banner in the background was created by a Stuyvesant art class.
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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 was also overwhelmed by the several thousand students. So The New York City Board of Education secured 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, cost about $148 million and included 65 classrooms, about 450 computers on 13 networks, 7 pairs of escalators, various indoor sporting facilities including two gymnasiums and a pool built to 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 ceramics, photography, wood, plastics, metal work, robotics 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.[23]

The New York City Department of Education reports that public per student spending at Stuyvesant is slightly lower than the city average.[7] Stuyvesant also receives private contributions.[24] 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 building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a school for older (aged 15–21) students with multiple disabilities and mental retardation. Students in wheelchairs are seen throughout the building.

Glass boxes, holding mementos from the year of each graduating class, are set in various places on the walls in the hallways. Items displayed include water from most large rivers, mud from the Dead Sea, a Revolutionary War button, pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building and of monuments around the world, and various chemical compounds. In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor, where the math department office is located, was dedicated to Dr. Richard Rothenberg, the math department chairman who had died from a sudden heart attack earlier that year. The Rothenberg memorial, commissioned in his honor, is a wall made up of 49 glass boxes, each featuring a mathematical concept.

Academics

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Springfield students undertake a college preparatory curriculum that includes four years of English, history, and laboratory-based sciences (chemistry and physics are required), three years of mathematics (many students opt for four) and two years of a foreign language. Also, SHS requires all students to partake in two years of arts/humanity, technology, physical education, and 6 credits worth of elective classes.

Springfield offers students a broad selection of elective courses. Some of the more unusual offerings include composing with computers, science of sports, astronomy, psychology, and foods and nutrition.

Students at SHS learn Chicago Math. The school offers a standard math curriculum of Algebra, Geometry, Pre-Calculus, and students may opt to take either Statistics or Calculus, Springfield's two AP Math courses.

Entrance from the TriBeCa Bridge

Students can choose from 31 Advanced Placement courses[25] 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 2 year computer networking sequence which can earn students Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification.

Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings rival those of many colleges, including the basics like French and Spanish as well as German, Latin, Hebrew, Japanese, and Italian. In 2000, Mandarin Chinese and Korean for native speakers were introduced in recognition of Stuyvesant's now majority Asian American population. Courses are also offered in Arabic and Greek, but these courses, along with Korean, may only be taken as electives.

Stuyvesant's Biology and Geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology (a course sequence comprised 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, 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.[26]

Although Stuyvesant is primarily known for its strength in areas such as math and science, the school has also developed a very strong humanities curriculum, as the English and social studies departments rank amongst the best in the school. Comprehensive programs in the humanities offer students courses in British and classical literature, philosophy, existentialism, debate, acting, journalism, and a host of creative writing and poetry classes. The history core requires a year of ancient, European and American history, as well as a semester of economics and government. Humanities electives include American foreign policy, civil and criminal law, Jewish history, "prejudice and persecution", "race, 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.[27][28]

In 1999, Gary He '02 started a website called stuynet.com where students could rate their teachers, although he later shut down the evaluation section after mathematics teacher Bruce Winokur threatened a libel suit.[citation needed] Gary He and stuynet were featured in national media including Howard Stern and the New York Times.[citation needed] The website lives on under a new name, stuycom.net, where the teacher evaluations are dubbed "course evaluations" and cause less controversy than their predecessors.[citation needed]

In December 2007, US News & World Report ranked Stuyvesant #15 on its list of "Best High Schools."

Extracurricular activities

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Sports

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Stuyvesant fields 26 varsity teams, including a swimming team, as well as golf, bowling, volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, wrestling, fencing, baseball/softball, handball, tennis, track/cross country, cricket, football,[citation needed] and starting in Spring 2008, lacrosse teams.[citation needed] In addition, Stuyvesant club teams include boys' varsity and junior varsity, and girls' varsity Ultimate teams. The girls' Ultimate team, Sticky Fingers, won the UPA Junior National tournament in 1998 and the boys' Ultimate team, also called Sticky Fingers, won the City Championship titles in 2005, 2006, and 2007.[citation needed] The Stuyvesant Cross Country team was Public Schools Athletic League City Champions in 2004,2005 and 2007, and have been Manhattan Borough Triple Crown Champions since 1999.[citation needed] The Stuyvesant Boys Swimming Team, the Pirates, have been PSAL City Champions consecutively since 2000 and Opens champions since 1995.[citation needed] The Stuyvesant Bowling Team has been the PSAL Manhattan Borough Champion consecutively since 1990.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] In 2005 the Stuyvesant Fencing team won the PSAL City Championship.[citation needed] In 2001, Stuyvesant added a varsity ice hockey team, the first public school in New York City to do so.[citation needed] In 2006, the Roller Hockey team was founded by Daniel Goldstern '09, Zakhar Shtulberg '09 and Chris Zhao '09. They compete in regional tournaments and have experienced much success. Stuyvesant is also a powerhouse in fencing with a string of city championships from 1986 through 1989 and again as recently as 2005.[citation needed] 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.[29]

Unlike most American high schools, most sports teams at Stuyvesant has their own name, such as the Lemurs (boys gymnastics), Peglegs (football and bowling), Penguins (girls swimming), Pirates (boys swimming), Ballers (boys soccer), Mimbas (girls soccer), Vixens (girls varsity volleyball), Hitmen (baseball), Flying Dutchmen (hockey) and Spartans (wrestling and Roller Hockey).[30] These names tend to change with time.

The Student Union

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The Stuyvesant Student Union is a group of elected and appointed students who serve the student body in two important areas:

  1. 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;
  2. Providing a voice to the student body in all discussion of school policy with the administration.

The latter has been increasingly important since the attacks of 9/11, with the administration and the Department of Education enacting sometimes controversial regulations in the name of school safety (e.g., the phasing out of SING! rehearsals).[citation needed]

The Student Union was also involved in the recent and ongoing controversy of the use of ID scanners at Stuyvesant, in which students were required to scan in to a computer to enter and leave the building.[citation needed]

Clubs and publications

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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, and the Robotics Team, which competes in the international FIRST Robotics Competition.[31] 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 existance. One of the best examples of this policy is the Stuyvesant Model UN club, the Sicknasties, which is one of the largest clubs in the school. The Sicknasties attend as many as 6 Model UN Conferences each year held at various Colleges across the Northeast. The club also hosts its own conference each year called StuyMUNC and the Students organize the conference with a minimum of interference from the school's administration. The school's speech and debate team is nationally recognized[citation needed] and arguably one of Stuyvesant's most successful teams, with a 25+ year history of winning national championship tournaments on both individual and team levels.[citation needed] The speech and debate team is run by Ms. Sheinman, who has been the coach of the team since 1985. Stuyvesant also has a very prestigious JSA program (a political debate club). The Stuyvesant Theater Community puts on three student-run productions a year (a fall musical, a winter drama, and a spring comedy) as well as a one-act festival and several smaller studio productions.[32] Key Club International also has a branch at Stuyvesant, with over 200 members making it one of the largest clubs in the school.

The Spectator

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The Spectator is Stuyvesant's official school newspaper. It contains twelve sections: news, features, op-ed, arts & entertainment, sports, photography, art, layout, copy, business, web content and web development. 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. At the start of their term, the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor select four editors to be members of the Managing Board, a group that advises the Editor in Chief and Managing Editor 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.[33] It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake, Columbia University's Columbia Daily Spectator, and it has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism's Columbia Scholastic Press Association on several occasions, most recently in 2002.[34]

The Stuyvesant Standard

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Founded in 2001, The Stuyvesant Standard is a bi-weekly newspaper published by Stuyvesant students for the community in and around the school. It covers school news as well as current events, and contains "interest sections" such as Business and Science alongside the standard departments of Opinions, Sports, and Arts & Entertainment. The Standard is distributed within Stuyvesant and throughout the surrounding community.

thumb|left|Cover of the May 1977 issue of The Voice

The Voice

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The Voice was founded in the 1973–74 academic year as an independent publication only loosely sanctioned by school officials.[33] It had the appearance of a magazine and gained a large readership. The Voice attracted a considerable amount of controversy and a First Amendment lawsuit, after which the administration forced it to go off-campus and to turn commercial in 1975–76.[33]

In the beginning of the 75–76 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.[35] 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.[35]

The editor-in-chief of The Voice, Jeff Trachtman,[36] brought a First Amendment challenge to this decision in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in front of Judge Constance Baker Motley.[35] Judge Motley, relying on the relatively recent Supreme Court precedent Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District ("undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression"),[37] 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.[38] 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."[38] The Supreme Court denied certiorari review.[39]

right|thumb|200px|Math Survey, Stuyvesant's resident mathematics publication

Other publications

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  • 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. The 1948 edition is available online.
  • Inspiration Magazine, an art and literary publication sponsored by the Music and Arts Department.
  • Political Fire, an unofficial newspaper started in 2006 which deals solely with political issues.
  • 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.
  • Libel, another humor publication.
  • a comic is you, a comic publication started in 2006.

Academic teams

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Stuyvesant's academic teams include its nationally recognized Speech and Debate team, Quiz Bowl, chess, Science Olympiad, and math, which regularly compete successfully at major regional, national, and — at least in the case of the math team — international tournaments. A FIRST Robotics team, called Stuypulse,[40] was founded in 2000. Stuyvesant also has a Model United Nations team, a JSA (Junior State of America) chapter, and a Model Congress team which competes at regional colleges. The Model United Nations team hosts STUYMUNC, an annual conference which takes place at Stuyvesant.

SING!

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SING V program, 1977

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 — in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from being members of the production's casts, choruses, or tech crews to Irish dance, Step, Bollywood, or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late November and culminates in final performances on three nights in March/April.

Student body

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For most of the 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant was heavily Jewish. A significant influx of Asian students began in the 1970s. For the 2006–2007 Academic Year, the student body was approximately 62 percent Asian American and 32 percent Caucasian, with Blacks and Hispanics each constituting roughly 5 percent of the population.[41] Stuyvesant possesses a disproportionate amount of historical minorities in comparison to national and local population distributions.[42][7] (See also Demographics of New York City.) Stuyvesant admits students from New York City, but some do travel from Long Island and New Jersey. Many others have long commutes from all five boroughs.

Accusations of bias in admission tests

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The school's off-center demographic profile and relative paucity of black and Hispanic students have often been a source of consternation for some city administrators. Mayor John Lindsay (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 Article 12, preserving 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.[42]

In 1996 community activist group ACORN 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.[12] 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.[6][43]

Notable people

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Main article: List of Stuyvesant High School people
See also: Category:Stuyvesant High School alumni

Stuyvesant has many mathematicians among its alumni, including more leading figures in the field than are associated with most major universities. A number of leading physicists and chemists are also Stuyvesant alumni, as well as several well known entertainers and authors, including Charlie's Angels star Lucy Liu; The Shawshank Redemption star Tim Robbins; Elias Stein, a prominent mathematician; genomic researcher Eric Lander; Walter Becker, core member of the musical group Steely Dan; and actor James Cagney.

Stuyvesant alumni include four Nobel laureates, a total placing it second only to Bronx Science among secondary schools:[44]

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. The novel was part of the English curriculum for students at Stuyvesant High School during the 2006 school year.

Young adult novelist Ned Vizzini attended Stuyvesant High School as a student. His first piece was published his junior year. Vizzini's characters and situations are said be based upon his time spent at Stuyvesant.

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  • The Stuyvesant High School building in Battery Park City was one of the main settings of the film Hackers, although it was not mentioned by name. 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. Upperclass students were used as extras throughout the film.
  • In an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a female Stuyvesant student is murdered. The investigation leads Detectives Goren and Eames to the school, where they interview her classmates.
  • The 2004 TriBeCa Film Festival featured an ad campaign with a stylized depiction of the school entitled Fast Times at Stuyvesant High.
  • 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 wears a boy's red Stuyvesant High School Physical Education leader T-shirt in the video for Fight For Your Right (To Party). This has sparked a rumor that one or all of the Boys attended Stuyvesant.[45] In fact, only the band's original drummer, Kate Schellenbach, did. Horovitz's much younger stepbrother Oliver also attended Stuyvesant.
  • Certain characters on the primetime television show Felicity spoke of their alma mater Stuyvesant HS.
  • On the primetime television show What I Like About You, "Holly", played by Amanda Bynes, attended Stuyvesant before starting and quitting college. "Tina" is also a Stuy alumna.
  • A feature-length documentary, entitled Frontrunners, was made about the Student Union elections at Stuyvesant.[46]
  • In August 2007, Simon & Schuster published Alec Klein's ('85) book on Stuyvesant entitled A Class Apart: Prodigies, Pressure, and Passion Inside One of America's Best High Schools.[47] Klein is also a reporter for The Washington Post.
  • In 2006, a controversial article about the different sexual orientations in Stuyvesant and how they represent a national trend appeared in New York magazine.[48]
  • The 2006 autobiographical young adult novel, The Notebook Girls, highlights the lives of four Stuyvesant students in the form of a journal.
  • Barbie attended two high schools, one of which, Manhattan International High School in New York City, is based on the real-life Stuyvesant.
  • In the 1984 novel Warday, the protagonist characters visit New York City after a limited nuclear exchange. Amongst the characters participating in the guardianship and salvage of the mostly-abandoned city, a few were Stuyvesant students at the time of the attack.
  • 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"
  • In the upcoming novel "Pseudonym" written by Stuyvesant alumnus Danielle Turchiano (Class of 2002), the protagonist talks about the pressure among her friends and their families to attend the prestigious magnet secondary school.

See also

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