Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy
| Yeshiva University High School for Boys The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy Manhattan Talmudical Academy |
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2540 Amsterdam Avenue Washington Heights, NY 10033 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°51′06″N 73°55′42″W / 40.851804°N 73.928446°WCoordinates: 40°51′06″N 73°55′42″W / 40.851804°N 73.928446°W |
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| Type | Private, Yeshiva, Day |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Judaism |
| Denomination | Centrist Orthodox |
| Established | 1916 |
| Sister school | Yeshiva University High School for Girls |
| Chairperson | Miriam Goldberg |
| Head of School | Rabbi Joshua Kahn |
| Faculty | 44.0 (on FTE basis) |
| Grades | 9–12 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Enrollment | 300+ |
| Student to teacher ratio | 6.8:1 |
| Color(s) | Blue and White |
| Mascot | Lion |
| Nickname | Lions |
| Accreditation | Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools |
| Affiliations | Yeshiva University |
| Website | Robotics team website |
The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as Yeshiva University High School for Boys (YUHSB), MTA (Manhattan Talmudical Academy) or TMSTA, is an Orthodox Jewish day school (or yeshiva), the boys' prep school of Yeshiva University (YU) in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel. He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary founded in 1896. As the elementary school soon ceased to exist, the high school is thus one of the oldest components of the University.
TA was the first academic Jewish high school in America, and the first ever to feature a dual curriculum, now standard in Jewish schools, of Judaic and secular studies. It was originally located on the Lower East Side, and moved to Washington Heights with the rest of Yeshiva in the late 1920s. The building originally planned for the High School alone was shared with the other schools of the University for many years before the campus expanded; today, that building is almost entirely occupied by the High School, and the other buildings of the University's main campus (including a dormitory for MTA students) surround it.
TA was later joined by a brother school, the Brooklyn Talmudical Academy ("BTA"), founded in the 1940s. While the Manhattan school remained, officially, "TA," it became popularly known as "MTA," the Manhattan Talmudical Academy, and, rarely, the Uptown Talmudical Academy, or "UTA." While the name "MTA" has never been official, it remains the most popular name for the school. Two girls' high schools were founded as well, Central Yeshiva High School in Brooklyn in the 1950s and a Manhattan school in the 1960s. Eventually, all four were eventually simply named by borough and gender, e.g., "Yeshiva University High School for Boys- Manhattan," but the popular names remained.
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