Stuyvesant High School
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Latin: Pro Scientia Atque Sapientia
For knowledge and wisdom
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345 Chambers Street New York, NY 10282 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′04″N 74°00′50″W / 40.7179°N 74.0138°WCoordinates: 40°43′04″N 74°00′50″W / 40.7179°N 74.0138°W |
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| School type | Public (Exam school) secondary |
| Established | 1904 |
| School board | New York City Department of Education |
| School district | New York City Department of Education |
| School number | M475 |
| CEEB code | 334070 |
| NCES School ID | 360007702877 |
| Principal | Eric Contreras |
| Faculty | 155.10 (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Number of students | 3,387 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 22:1 |
| Athletics conference | PSAL |
| Mascot | Pegleg Pete |
| Nickname | Stuy |
| USNWR ranking | 69 |
| Average SAT scores | 1460 |
| Average ACT scores | 33 |
| Newspaper | The Spectator |
| Yearbook | The Indicator |
| Nobel laureates | 4 |
| Website | stuy.edu |
Stuyvesant High School /ˈstaɪvəsənt/, commonly referred to as Stuy /ˈstaɪ/ or Stuyvesant, is one of nine specialized high schools in New York City, United States. Operated by the New York City Department of Education, these schools offer tuition-free accelerated academics to city residents. Stuyvesant is a college preparatory science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) focused liberal arts high school.
Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test. Each November, about 30,000 eighth and ninth graders take the 2 1⁄2-hour exam, and roughly 800 students, or 2.7% of applicants, are accepted to Stuyvesant each year.
Stuyvesant High School is named after Peter Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor of New Netherland before the colony was transferred to England in 1664. 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. The building, built in 1905 for $1.5 million, housed the Stuyvesant campus for the next 85 years. The school became renowned for excellence in math and science, and enrollment continued to grow so that by 1919, admission began to be restricted based on scholastic achievement. Stuyvesant went on a double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students, with some students attending in the morning and others in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. These double sessions ran until 1956.
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