Hunter Normal School
| Hunter College High School | |
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View of Hunter College High School
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71 East 94th Street New York City, New York United States |
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| Type | Public, Selective Magnet |
| Motto |
Mihi Cura Futuri (The care of the future is mine.) |
| Established | 1869 |
| School district | New York City Department of Education |
| Oversight | Hunter College |
| Principal | Dr. Tony Fisher |
| Director | Lisa Siegmann |
| Faculty | 87 |
| Grades | 7–12 |
| Enrollment | approx. 1,200 |
| Student to teacher ratio | 13:1 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) |
Home:Purple , Gold Away: Black |
| Athletics conference | PSAL |
| Team name | Hawks |
| Accreditation | MSA |
| Average SAT scores | 2208 |
| Average ACT scores | 32.6 |
| Newspaper | What's What The Observer (unofficial) |
| Yearbook | Annals |
| Feeder schools | Hunter College Elementary |
| Website | www |
Home:Purple , Gold
Hunter College High School is a secondary school for intellectually gifted students located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It is administered by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Hunter is publicly funded, and there is no tuition fee. According to the school, "students accepted to Hunter represent the top one-quarter of 1% of students in New York City, based on test scores."
Hunter has been ranked as the top public high school in the United States by both The Wall Street Journal and Worth.The New York Times called Hunter "the prestigious Upper East Side school known for its Ivy League-bound students" and "the fast track to law, medicine and academia." Publicly available data indicate that Hunter has the highest average SAT score, the highest average ACT score and the highest percentage of National Merit Finalists of any high school in the United States, public or private.
Hunter was established in 1869 as "The Female Normal and High School", a private school to prepare young women to become teachers. The original school was composed of an elementary and a high school. A kindergarten was added in 1887, and in 1888 the school was incorporated into a college. The high school was separated from what would become Hunter College in 1903. In 1914, both schools were named after the Female Normal School's first president, Thomas Hunter. The school was almost closed by Hunter College President Jacqueline Wexler in the early 1970s.
Hunter was an all-girls school for its first 78 years, with the official name "Hunter College High School for Intellectually Gifted Young Ladies". The prototypical Hunter girl was the subject of the song Sarah Maria Jones, who, the lyrics told, had "Hunter in her bones." In 1878, Harper's Magazine published an approving article about the then-new school:
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