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151-648: He began his career in radio production via an all-city, three-day-a-week program in 1945 while attending Stuyvesant High School in New York. After two years at New York University , Paul served in the United States Marine Corps. This was followed by his completion of a Master of Arts at the University of Michigan where he met Ilona Planken, whom he married on September 1, 1956. He spent 25 years in commercial television before working for public television, where he

302-422: A capacity of 2,600 students, more than double that of the existing previous temporary school building of the last few years at 23rd Street. It contained 25 classrooms devoted to skilled trades, as well as 53 regular classrooms and a 1,600-seat auditorium. A half-century later, uring the 1950s, the building underwent a $ 2 million renovation to update its classrooms, shops, libraries, and cafeterias. Through

453-424: A certain distance from the school are provided full-fare or half-fare student MetroCards for public transportation at the start of each term, based on how far away the student resides from the school. As of 2024, students are provided with OMNY cards that offer four free rides throughout the day, as well as public transportation access over the weekend. Stuyvesant has a total enrollment of over 3,000 students and

604-494: A contest to put on the best performance. SING! started in 1947 at Midwood High School in Brooklyn and has expanded to many New York City high schools since then. SING! at Stuyvesant started as a small event in 1973, and since then, has grown to a school-wide event; in 2005, nearly 1,000 students participated. The entire production is written, directed, produced, and funded by students. Their involvement ranges from being members of

755-425: A double session plan in 1919 to accommodate the rising number of students: some students would attend in the morning, while others would take classes in the afternoon and early evening. All students studied a full set of courses. These double sessions ran until Spring 1957. The school implemented a system of entrance examinations in 1934. The examination program, developed with the assistance of Columbia University ,

906-443: A further east wing facing North Avenue and towards adjacent Guilford Avenue were constructed. This massive assembly hall and physical education building with swimming pool was the largest built at the time in the city and the auditorium served many secular / civic / cultural occasions and events in town for decades into the mid-1980s. While at this location, the high school expanded both its academic, technical and athletic programs under

1057-426: A joint Poly-City student / faculty committee packed with supporter advertising front and back with team group photos and rosters, player / coach biographies and photos plus the administration, page of City and Poly songs and cheers, photos of each school building and school seals, lists of the previous years of scores of victories and defeats. These now prized collector's items began in the early 1920s and continued up to

1208-610: A large historical bronze plaque was placed and dedicated with ceremonies of City officials, B.C.P.S. staff and B.P.I. administration / faculty / students and alumni in the St. Paul Place West lobby of the Mercy Hospital complex commemorating that earlier first home of the Manual Training School for 30 years, later to become "Poly". It just so happened in an amazing coincidence, that these original Poly buildings were and situated across

1359-587: A larger than usual football crowd, while the Calvert Hall-Loyola game still continued on Thanksgiving Day morning (grabbing all the media attention) moved to the Johnny Unitas Stadium at Towson University north of town and between those two Catholic schools home campuses in Towson . In February 2020, ESPN ranked the boys basketball team in the top 25 in the country. ^ Denotes interim director while

1510-568: A local court case, the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute officially became coeducational when it began admitting female students for the first time in almost 90 years. The first female to enroll and successfully graduate from the "A" Course was an African-American named Cindy White (1974–1978). Coincidentally five years later, rival Baltimore City College, also with an all-boys student body since its founding in 1839, also admitted girls, becoming co-educational in 1979 after undergoing

1661-533: A major two-years long $ 10 million dollars renovation / reconstruction project and academic reorganization and revitalization program at its landmark "Castle on the Hill" 1922–1928 edifice on "Collegian Hill" at 33rd Street and The Alameda. In the late 1980s the title "principal" of the Polytechnic Institute was changed to "director." After the retirement of Director John Dohler in 1990, Barbara Stricklin became

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1812-561: A number of additional students from surrounding suburban counties in Maryland paying supplemental tuition). Admission to the Polytechnic Institute is highly competitive. Course concentrations include: the Honors S.T.E.M. Program ; the Ingenuity Project offering advanced science, math, and academic research courses; AP Capstone emphasizing Social Sciences and Humanities; Computer Science; and

1963-399: A regional football league composed of upper levels of higher education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. That began the oldest football rivalry in Maryland schools, the region and the nation, City's "Collegians" continued to win regularly against upstart Poly through 1901, however in 1902, for the only time in history of the series no game was played; though, in 1931, an extra game

2114-576: A report about the need to construct technical / scientific oriented secondary schools in Brooklyn and throughout New York state in 1887. This would follow other examples of specialized high schools such as the Baltimore Manual Training School, now the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute . The municipal architect and engineer C. B. J. Snyder , who designed many of the city's public school buildings, had repeatedly mentioned

2265-530: A row between 2016 and 2019. The Poly "Engineers" baseball team has won nine Baltimore City championships since 2005 under head coach Corey Goodwin. Since the early 1900s the "Engineers" of the Polytechnic Institute, along with longtime arch-rival The Baltimore City College's , "Collegians" / "Black Knights" had dominated the old public – private schools athletic league of the Maryland Scholastic Association (M.S.A.) which existed 1919 to 1993 in

2416-530: A school building, and so the new school was initially housed within Public School #47's former building at 225 East 23rd Street . The Board of Education also wrote that the new school would be "designated as the Stuyvesant High School, as being reminiscent of the locality." Stuyvesant Square , Stuyvesant Street , and later Stuyvesant Town (which was built subsequently in 1947) are all located near

2567-591: A semester each of economics and government. Humanities electives include American foreign policy ; civil and criminal law , prejudice and persecution. In 2004, Stuyvesant High entered into an agreement with the City College of New York (C.C.N.Y. – part of the larger City University of New York ), which the college funds advanced after-school courses that are taken for college credit but taught by S.H.S. faculty. Some of these courses include linear algebra, advanced Euclidean geometry, and women's history. Prior to

2718-709: A separate "A" course would not provide the same educational opportunities for African American students, and that, starting that fall, African American students could attend Poly. The vote vindicated the NAACP national strategy of raising the economic cost of 'separate but equal' schools beyond what taxpayers and their government bureaucracy were willing to pay. Thirteen African American students, Leonard Cephas, Carl Clark, William Clark, Milton Cornish, Clarence Daly, Victor Dates, Alvin Giles, Bucky Hawkins, Linwood Jones, Edward Savage, Everett Sherman, Robert Young, and Silas Young, finally entered

2869-497: A single foreign language; a semester each of introductory art, music, health, and technical drawing ; one semester of computer science ; and two lab-based technology courses. Several exemptions from technology education exist for seniors. Stuyvesant offers students a selection of elective courses, uncluding astronomy , New York City history, and Computer Graphics Design in the Computer Science Area. Most students complete

3020-503: A suitable building expansive enough to handle both its academic and technical education requirements. But the growth of "The Institute" was so much that in only a decade and a half by 1930, the old original central wing of "The Mansion" from the Blind School was razed after only 17 years and replaced by a simpler center three-story wing between the two flanking earlier 1913 structures with an additional large enormous auditorium / gymnasium in

3171-664: A uniform exam to be administered for admission to Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science, and Stuyvesant High. The exam, named the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), tested the mathematical and verbal abilities of students who were applying to any of the specialized high schools. The only exception was for applicants to the music and arts program at LaGuardia High School, who were accepted by audition rather than examination. The current school building in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan since 1992,

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3322-473: A voice to the student body in all discussion of school policy with the administration. Stuyvesant allows students to join clubs, publications, and teams under a system similar to that of many colleges. As of 2015 , the school had 150 student clubs. The Spectator is Stuyvesant's official in-school newspaper, which is published biweekly and is independent from the school administration and faculty. There are over 250 students who help with its publication. At

3473-523: Is about a half-mile / 0.5 miles (0.8 km) away from the site of the World Trade Center , which was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 . The school was evacuated during the attack. Although the smoke cloud from the World Trade Center temporarily covered the building, there was no structural damage, and there were no reports of physical injuries. Less than an hour after

3624-485: Is now named. Lumsden finished with an 11–7 record against City when he retired as "Engineers" head coach in 1966. He also coached 9–0 Poly to the unofficial National High School Championship Game at Miami, Florida 's huge landmark Orange Bowl stadium in 1962, against the Miami High School "Stingarees", but Poly lost by a score of 14–6. With both secondary schools packed to almost 4,000 male students each because of

3775-541: Is open to residents of New York City entering ninth or tenth grade . Enrollment is based solely on performance on the three-hour Specialized High Schools Admissions Test, which is administered annually. Approximately 28,000 students took the test in 2017. The list of schools using the SHSAT has since grown to include eight of New York's nine specialized high schools. The test score necessary for admission to Stuyvesant has consistently been higher than that needed for admission to

3926-756: Is reputed to be the third oldest public high school / secondary school in the nation, established 1839. and had unofficial student teams playing rugby and various earlier versions of American football starting back in the 1870s. Meanwhile, the B.M.T.S. / B.P.I. was in its also cramped quarters on Courtland Street (today's Saint Paul Street / Place / "Preston Gardens" site) and both public secondary schools in those days were with no campus or athletic fields, so forced to use nearby municipal parks like newly purchased Clifton or older Patterson or Druid Hill Parks . The two teams from neighboring all-boys high schools which were seven blocks apart in Downtown Baltimore , met in

4077-670: The Jones Falls stream to the west (and adjacent elevated Jones Falls Expressway ( Interstate 83 ) and with Falls Road ( Maryland Route 25 } and the heights of the Roland Park residential planned community from the 1890s to the east along Cold Spring Lane, and to the south is the Hampden and Woodberry neighborhoods. Further to the north along Falls Road is the Village of Cross Keys shopping mall and planned residential community also developed during

4228-556: The 2005 revision of the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test), Stuyvesant graduates had an average score of 1408 out of 1600 (685 in the verbal section of the test, 723 in the math section). In 2010, the average score on the SAT for Stuyvesant students was 2087 out of 2400, while the class of 2013 had an average SAT score of 2096. As of 2023 , Stuyvesant students' average SAT score was 1510 of 1600 points. Stuyvesant also administers more Advanced Placement exams than supposedly any other high school in

4379-608: The American Civil War . Also occupying this site on its east side facing Falls Road is the new Western High School , an all-girls school founded in 1844. Notable buildings on the B.P.I. campus include Dehuff Hall, also known formerly as the Academic Hall building, named for the longtime fourth principal where students attend normal classes, and Burkert Hall, also previously called the Engineering Hall building, remembering

4530-649: The Baltimore City Council and the Baltimore City Public Schools , it is now a coeducational academic institution since 1974, that emphasizes sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics ("STEM"). It is located on a 53-acre (21 ha) tract of land in North Baltimore on the east bank of the Jones Falls stream (running north to south). B.P.I. and the adjacent still all-girls population of

4681-480: The Baltimore City Public Schools system. The 1930s ushered in a period of resurgence for the City "Castlemen" team, now ensconced in their new spacious hilltop campus of "Collegian Hill" at 33rd and The Alameda and the landmark "Castle on the Hill" since 1928. Poly, which had dominated in the previous two decades, only picked up two wins in the entire decade. In 1934, B.P.I. student Harry Lawrence, who had famously kicked

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4832-570: The Baltimore Terrapins of the short-lived Federal League ) on Greenmount Avenue and 29th Street in nearby Waverly neighborhood burned down in a spectacular blaze after the Fourth of July in 1944 and the two pro football Colts franchises when a multi-year project began in 1949 reconstructing, expanding and adding an upper deck to become the new Memorial Stadium reopening in the Spring of 1954 to greet

4983-533: The NFL ). The time before and during the game was peaceful and fun, but trouble and strife occurred after the final whistle. This was the first documented trouble at the Fall Classic since the early 1970s. With games first being played at old Municipal / Baltimore Stadium , the first built 1923 on 33rd Street's Venable Park. Violence had occasionally occurred near a century before and marred the old City-Poly traditions during

5134-540: The New York City Department of Education , specialized schools offer tuition -free, advanced classes to New York City high school students. Stuyvesant High School was established in 1904 initially as an all-boys school in the East Village of lower Manhattan . Starting in 1934, admission for all applicants was contingent on passing an entrance examination. In 1969, after 65 years with an all-male student body,

5285-476: The New York Giants pro football team and finish his sports career as an NFL executive), guided his "Black Knights" teams to six wins over Poly, and an equal number of the old Maryland Scholastic Association (M.S.A.) "A Conference" championships. One of Young's most memorable victories occurred on Thanksgiving Day, 1965, at the old Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street, when undefeated City's "Black Knights" beat

5436-699: The Supreme Court of the United States in May 1954 in the famous case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas . Previous black students in Baltimore City (and from adjacent Baltimore County also) had attended the Frederick Douglass High School (formerly named the "Colored High School" up to 1923 – second oldest in the nation – founded the same year as Poly – 1883) on the westside of town and

5587-567: The United States Air Force -sponsored Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps ( JROTC ). In its 2019 nationwide survey of STEM programs spanning 2015–2019, Newsweek magazine ranked Poly No. 36 among U.S. high schools. In addition to the school's football program, Poly's sports include basketball, soccer, cross-country, track and field, lacrosse, baseball, hockey, swimming, tennis, volleyball, and wrestling. The boys' basketball team won three state championship titles in

5738-581: The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit . There Judge J. Edward Lumbard , joined by Judge Murray Gurfein and over dissent by third Judge Walter R. Mansfield , held that the distribution of the questionnaires was properly disallowed by the administration. The higher level U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review. The annual theater competition known as SING! pits seniors, juniors, and freshmen/sophomores against each other in

5889-486: The University of Maryland at College Park , northwest of Washington, D.C. in suburban Prince George's County or later in other large state public universities / colleges). This change meant that the scholastic football season would end earlier to allow for the beginning of state-wide play-offs in the M.P.S.S.A.A., forcing Poly and City to move their annual century-old game in 1994 from its longtime traditional holiday date for decades of Thanksgiving Day holiday afternoon to

6040-661: The Western High School are located on the same huge joint campus at the northwest corner of West Cold Spring Lane and Falls Road. B.P.I. was founded in 1883, after Baltimorean Joshua Plaskitt petitioned the Baltimore municipal and school authorities to establish a school for instruction in engineering. The original school was named the Baltimore Manual Training School , and its first class was made up of about sixty students, all of them male. The official name of

6191-417: The "Douglass" plan lasted for hours, with longtime Poly Principal Dehuff and others arguing that separate but equal "A" Courses would satisfy constitutional requirements and NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall (soon to be later famous appointed Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967), arguing that the plan was a gamble and additional cost that the city should not take. By a vote of 5–3, the board decided that

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6342-529: The "Old Stuyvesant Campus," housing three smaller schools: the Institute for Collaborative Education, the High School for Health Professions and Human Services , and lower grades of PS 226. In the 83rd year of its history of 1987, the 105th Mayor of New York City , Ed Koch (1924–2013, served 1978–1989), and 52nd Governor of New York State Mario Cuomo (1932–2015, served 1983–1994), jointly announced

6493-548: The 119th time in November 2007, a contest unfortunately marred by the outbreak of a large brawl outside the new M&T Bank Stadium , southwest of downtown where the annual Fall Football Classic for the oldest public and Catholic high schools had been relocated in the redeveloped Camden Yards Sports Complex (built 1996 for the new moved franchise from the Cleveland Browns to become the new Baltimore Ravens pro football team in

6644-477: The 122nd time on November 6, 2010. As of the 2018 game, City had won the prior and trophy in 7 contests. Because of the extreme large size of the downtown Camden Yards football stadium with two-thirds of the place with empty purple and black Ravens seats empty, the site was changed to the more cozy smaller Hughes Stadium at the Morgan State University in the northeast city but still able to accommodate

6795-467: The 1840s and its reorganization in the early 1870s. These old 19th century Poly / Public Welfare buildings were then later torn down in the early 1960s for construction of their first modern hospital tower (now renamed McCauley Building) in 1964. It recently also supplemented by additional major construction of the adjacent high-rise Bunting Tower hospital facilities in the 2010s. In 1983, at the technology high school's centennial observation and celebration,

6946-573: The 1905–1907 school building was deteriorating due to overuse. A New York Times daily newspaper expose report stated that the building had "held out into old age with minimal maintenance..." The five-story building could not cater adequately to the several thousand students, leading the New York City Board of Education to make plans to move the school to a new building in Battery Park City , near lower Manhattan 's Financial District . The 15th Street building remains in use over 32 years later as

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7248-475: The 1920s, but happened elsewhere from the stadium on downtown streets with competing colliding school fans parades. Both governor's and mayor's sons from opposing schools were arrested amid the street riots melees. Four decades later, some more serious strife recurred during the socially tumultuous late 1960s era and early '70s outside old Memorial Stadium (rebuilt 1949–54) on the north side of 33rd Street with huge crowds of over 30,000 fans filling up two-thirds of

7399-511: The 1960s by the noted James Rouse . At the time of the 1965–1967 building of the "New Poly-Western", it was considered one of the largest and most expensive school construction projects in the nation up to that time. A century before, this site along the Jones Falls was occupied by earthworks fortifications for the Union Army , then militarily occupying Southern-sympathizing Baltimore City during

7550-454: The 1969 U.S. Supreme Court holding in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District that "undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression", Motley ordered the New York City Board of Education to permit the distribution of the survey to the juniors and seniors. However, Judge Motley's ruling was overturned on appeal to

7701-441: The 1970s and 1980s, when New York City municipal government and especially the public schools system, in general, were marked by violence, vandalism and graffiti, and low academic grades among their students, Stuyvesant High still had an excellent academic reputation for being a top-notch public high school, and was still graduating well-prepared and accomplished alumni, (judging from their track record now four decades later). However,

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7852-660: The 1975–1976 academic year, The Voice decided to publish the results of a confidential random survey on social issues. The administration refused to permit The Voice to distribute the questionnaire, and the Board of Education refused to intervene. The then editor-in-chief of The Voice , brought a First Amendment challenge to this decision to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in front of Judge Constance Baker Motley . Relying on

8003-799: 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 21st century, keynote graduation speakers have included Attorney General Eric Holder (2001), , United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan (2004), comedian Conan O'Brien (2006), actor George Takei (2016), and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson (2018). In August 1904,

8154-426: The 2022–2023 school year, it was announced that Ms. Williams would be retiring after 12 years as Poly's academic head. In June 2023, another Poly alum, Mark Sawyer was named director, a position he holds to this day. Poly is a longtime "magnet school" for over 141 years, with specialized courses drawing students from across Baltimore's regular district boundaries in the Baltimore City Public Schools system (including

8305-425: The 20th century, the student body at Stuyvesant High was only all-male (1904–1969), mostly white. A significant influx of Asian students began in the 1970s. In 1971, then 103rd New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay (1921–2000, served 1966–1973), argued that the test was culturally biased and sought to implement an affirmative action program. However, protests by parents forced the plan to be scrapped and led to

8456-565: The Art Commission of the City of New York. The New York City Subway 's Chambers Street station , served by the 1 , ​ 2 , and ​ 3 trains, is located nearby, as well as the Chambers Street–World Trade Center station served by the A , ​ C , and ​ E trains. Additionally, New York City Bus 's M9 , M20 and M22 routes stop near Stuyvesant. Students residing

8607-473: The B.P.I. case they argued that BPI's offerings of specialized engineering courses violated the " separate but equal " clause because these courses were not offered in high schools for black students. To avoid integration, an out-of-court proposal was made to the Baltimore School Board to start an equivalent "A" Course at the "colored" (for non-whites) of Frederick Douglass High School . This hearing on

8758-627: The Baltimore Urban League , and the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ) applied for the mathematics / engineering "A" Course at the Poly; the applications were initially denied and so the students sued in local Maryland state circuit court. The subsequent trial began on June 16, 1952. The NAACP's intentions were to end segregation at the 70-year-old public high school. In

8909-460: The Board of Education authorized municipal architect and engineer Snyder to design a new building for Stuyvesant High School at 15th Street. The new high school structure was designed in the then popular Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical / Classical Revival architecture for its grand imposing style. It would be shaped like the letter "H", with two interior light courts ; the shape also allowed natural light to illuminate more inside windows and parts of

9060-447: The City of Baltimore public schools admitting African-American – then called "Negro" / "Colored" students. The Baltimore City Public Schools (founded 1829), had maintained racially segregated schools since first beginning public education for its black minority in Baltimore in 1870. The nationally famous precedent occurred two years before the rest of the nation took up this serious issue of inequality and discrimination addressed finally by

9211-480: The Fall of 1889, (no mention in the several Baltimore daily newspapers back then) except that a junior varsity team from Poly met City's "scrubs", in the newly purchased Clifton Park in the northeast section of the old Baltimore City and that City emerged the victor for the next decade and a half, as the B.C.C. was then playing an ambitious schedule then against several regional colleges / universities opponents and played in

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9362-666: The NYPL system. [REDACTED] During construction, the Battery Park City Authority , the Percent for Art Program of the City of New York, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York City Board of Education commissioned Mnemonics , an artwork by public artists Kristin Jones and Andrew Ginzel . Four hundred hollow glass blocks were dispersed from the basement to the tenth floor of

9513-587: The New York City Department of Education assigned S.H.S. an "A", the highest possible grade. Stuyvesant has had the second highest number of National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists, behind Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia . From 2002 to 2010, Stuyvesant has produced 103 semi-finalists and 13 finalists on the Intel Science Talent Search ,

9664-478: The New York City Regents courses by junior year and take calculus during their senior year. However, the school offers math courses through differential equations for the more advanced students. A year of technical drawing was formerly required; students learned how to draft by hand in its first semester and how to draft using a computer in the second. Now, students take a one-semester compacted version of

9815-451: The Polytechnic Institute that fall. They were unfortunately faced daily with racial epithets, threats of violence and isolation from many of the more than 2,000 fellow students then at the school on North Avenue. But they endured, kept their cool and composure, knowing what was at stake. The first of those students to graduate from Poly was Dr. Carl O. Clark in June 1955. Dr. Clark went on to become

9966-464: The S.H.S. mathematics department chairman who had died earlier that year. Sculptor Madeleine Segall-Marx was commissioned to create the Rothenberg Memorial in his honor. She created a mathematics wall entitled "Celebration", consisting of 50 wooden boxes—one for each year of his life—behind a glass wall, featuring mathematical concepts and reflections on Rothenberg. In 2006, Robert Ira Lewy of

10117-521: The Stuyvesant students attending the evening shift. Normal classes resumed nearly a month after the attack, on October 9. Nine alumni were killed in the World Trade Center attack. On October 2, 2001, the school newspaper, The Spectator , added a 24-page section with student photos, reflections and stories. On November 20, 2001, the magazine was distributed for free to the greater metropolitan area, enclosed within 830,000 copies of The New York Times . In

10268-406: The United States. —predated by the longtime also famous athletic and academic rivalry between the two New England secondary schools dated back to 1887 between the Boston Latin School (founded 1635, considered colonial America's oldest public school) and the English High School of Boston (founded 1821, considered the oldest public high school in America). The second oldest public high school in

10419-466: The admissions test. Students attend preparatory classes through the program, now known as the Specialized High School Institute (also known as DREAM), at several schools around the city from the summer after sixth grade until the eighth-grade exam. Despite the implementation of these free programs for improving underprivileged children's enrollment, black and Hispanic enrollment continued to decline. After further expansion of free test prep programs, there

10570-438: The also previously undefeated Poly "Engineers" by the largest margin score ever, 52–6. Baltimore City's public high schools withdrew in 1993 from the old Maryland Scholastic Association, a unique public / private / independent and parochial schools athletic league in central Maryland, organized in 1919, and joined the newer larger state-wide Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA), organized in 1946. This

10721-412: The awful horrible climate at the "Dump on the Hump" and making fun of the other's administration, faculty, coaches, collapsing decrepit buildings, worthless diplomas and failed education good only for future criminal successes!!! Poly won five straight games against City to open the 1950s, and 9 of the decade's 10 games, under its legendary coach Bob Lumsden, for whom the school's current football stadium

10872-653: The beginning of the fall and spring terms, there are recruitments, but interested students may join at any time. Founded in 1915 (and now 109 years old), The Spectator is one of Stuyvesant's oldest publications. It has a long-standing connection with its older namesake; the Columbia University 's Columbia Daily Spectator , and has been recognized by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism 's well-known nation-wide Columbia Scholastic Press Association . founded 1925. The Voice

11023-440: The black high schools in the city before 1952. But a parallel "A" Course centered on the humanities / social studies / liberal arts was also longtime since the '20s offered at arch-rival City College with a similar degree of rigorous quality. But its focus was in different fields. Other "A" Courses were similarly available at the two also all-white and all-girls Eastern and Western High Schools , both founded 1844. B.P.I.

11174-506: The bowl. But it had been generally peaceful ever since those times of national unrest with racial summer urban riots and anti- Vietnam War and the military draft protests. Things quieted down specially with the traditions begun first in the 1940s and '50s of a "City – Poly Peace Pact" signing by the two secondary schools student leaders with media coverage at the Mayor's ceremonial office at the historic Baltimore City Hall , and its later renewal in

11325-631: The boys' varsity, boys' junior varsity, and girls' varsity divisions. Fifteen years after moving to Chambers Street in Battery Park City, in September 2007, the Stuyvesant High football team was given a home field at Pier 40 , on the Hudson River waterfront of the westside of Manhattan situated north of the school at Houston Street and West Street . In 2008, the baseball team was granted use of

11476-423: The building was New York City's first new high school building in ten years. The new downtown Stuyvesant Campus cost $ 150 million. The S.H.S. Library has a capacity of 40,000 volumes and overlooks Battery Park City. Shortly after the third S.H.S. 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 building

11627-434: The building. The cornerstone for the new building was laid in September 1905. Approximately $ 1.5 million was spent on constructing the school, including $ 600,000 for the monumental stone exterior alone. It was considered one of the most expensive public buildings or school structures ever built up to that time in New York. In 1907, the Stuyvesant High School moved to the new building on 15th Street. The new building had

11778-472: The city's Board of Education was able to show all children have had access to appropriate materials to prepare themselves. Students published several editorials in response to the claims, stating the admissions system at the school was based on student merit alone. To boost minority admissions, the Board of Education started the Math Science Institute in 1995, a free program to prepare students for

11929-558: The class of 1960 made a gift worth $ 1 million to found the Dr. Robert Ira Lewy M.D. Multimedia Center. and donated his personal library in 2007. In late 2010, the high school's library merged with the New York Public Library (NYPL) network in a four-year pilot program, in which all students of the school received a S.H.S. / N.Y.P.L. student library card so they could check books out of the school library or any other public library in

12080-478: The collapse of the second World Trade Center tower, concern over a bomb threat at the school prompted an evacuation of the surrounding area, as reported live on the Today show. When classes resumed on September 21, 2001, students were moved to Brooklyn Technical High School while the Stuyvesant building served as a base of operations for rescue and recovery workers. This required the students to attend in two shifts, with

12231-474: The coming construction project of a third new Stuyvesant High School building to be situated in Battery Park City of lower Manhattan . The Battery Park City Authority donated 1.5 acres (0.61 ha) of land for the new building. The building was designed by the architectural firms of Gruzen Samton Steinglass and Cooper, Robertson & Partners . The structure's main architect, Alexander Cooper of Cooper, Robertson & Partners, had also designed much of

12382-804: The completion of the AP course: systems level programming, computer graphics , and software development. In addition, there is a one-year computer networking class which can earn students Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification. Stuyvesant's foreign language offerings include Spanish, French, German, Latin , Chinese and Japanese. In 2005, the school also started offering courses in Arabic. Stuyvesant's biology and geo-science department offers courses in molecular biology, human physiology , medical ethics , medical and veterinary diagnosis, human disease, anthropology and sociobiology , vertebrate zoology , laboratory techniques, medical human genetics , botany ,

12533-864: The country is considered to be the Central High School of Philadelphia , founded 1836, all of which with traditions, curriculum admissions standards and famous faculty and alumni similar to its predecessors in Boston and subsequent followers further south in Baltimore . The rivalry here in "The Monumental City" began in the Autumn of 1889, when a team from The Baltimore City College ( "City" "Collegians") then situated at North Howard and West Centre Streets since 1875 with its first structure of two (which unfortunately collapsed in August 1892 because of undermining from construction of

12684-498: The extensive longtime leadership of legendary Dr. Wilmer Dehuff, who was the fourth principal from 1921 to 1958. Principal Dehuff despite his many accomplishments in his long educational career and his devotion and love of Poly, unfortunately in his view opposed and reluctantly (see below) oversaw the racial integration of the technology high school in September 1952, the first instance in the American Upper South region with

12835-476: The famous economic collapse of the Great Depression era and continued there for three decades. The Courtland / St. Paul Street / Place structures complex was later purchased / annexed by neighboring Mercy Hospital , (which was formerly named "Baltimore City Hospital"), for its westward expansion located originally one block to the east on North Calvert and East Saratoga Streets, on the northwest corner since

12986-627: The fifth principal, where students attend classes in the Willard Hackerman Engineering Program. (Hackerman, a noted Poly alumnus and local / regional engineering / construction firm founder). Both Western High girls and Poly students make use of the auditorium/cafeteria complex in-between the two high schools, and likewise share the swimming pool and sports fields. Although the two schools share these facilities, their respective academic programs and classrooms are completely separate from one another. In 1974 after some controversy and

13137-420: The first African-American to graduate from the University of South Carolina with a degree in physics in 1976. In September 1967, after a multi-year planning and construction project, then-fifth principal Claude Burkert (1958–1969) oversaw the relocation of his school after 54 years at North Avenue and Calvert Street to its current location at 1400 West Cold Spring Lane, a fifty-three-acre tract of land bordering

13288-486: The first woman to head the "magnet" high school, as she accepted the title of Interim Director. During Director Ian Cohen's tenure (1994–2003), Poly's curriculum was again expanded when it began offering Advanced placement (A.P.) classes. During the 2001–2002 school year, Poly was recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education when it was named a "Blue Ribbon School of Excellence." In 2011, Poly

13439-434: The following September / Fall semester. B.P.I. since the 1920s had an unusually advanced and difficult college-level mathematics, engineering and technology oriented "A" Course, the "Advanced College Preparatory Curriculum" instituted back in the 1920s as part of then Public Schools reform and improvement program. It included calculus, analytical chemistry, electricity, mechanics and surveying; these subjects were not offered at

13590-465: The former Maryland School for the Blind was purchased. It was sitting on a slight hill above the avenue in a then rural / suburban setting. Two additional massive three-story wings on the east and west sides of the center mansion were constructed and added by the City with a Greek Revival architecture with Classical style columns on the front facade. Now for the first time in its 30 years history "Tech" had

13741-525: The former drafting course, as well as a semester of introductory computer science. For the class of 2015, the one-semester computer science course was replaced with a two-semester course. As a specialized high school, Stuyvesant offers a range of Advanced Placement (AP) courses. These courses focus on math, science, history, English, or foreign languages. This gives students various opportunities to earn college credit. AP computer science students can also take three additional computer programming courses after

13892-579: The freshman classes at eight selective colleges in the U.S. and reported that Stuyvesant sent 67 students to these schools, comprising 9.9% of its 674 seniors. In recent years, Stuyvesant High’s student newspaper has reported on college admissions of the graduating classes, with the class of 2021 having 133 students offered admission to Ivy League institutions. U.S. News & World Report included Stuyvesant on its list of "Best High Schools" published in December 2009, ranking 31st. In its 2010 progress report,

14043-478: The fun tradition of making up a replica humorous satire of the opponent's student paper so memorable versions appeared of "The Folly Mess" (subtitled "A Folly institution since A.D. 922"!!) reporting on the dire terrible situation at the "Baltimore Follytechnique Institution" and equally hilarious "The Collitchin" (with its twisted slogan "serving the student morons of the Baltimore Seedy Collage"!!!) of

14194-449: The hallowed Memorial Corridor filled with Poly historical and biographical wall plaques, displays and glass exhibit floor cabinets along with at the west end of the stained glass window, statue head bust and B.P.I. bronze seal imbedded in the floor (all imported from the old North Avenue building of 1913–1967) is situated here. This wing was renamed after him as "King Memorial Hall" as one of the three new main 1967 campus structures along with

14345-519: The high school started permanently accepting female students. In 1992, Stuyvesant High School moved to its current location at Battery Park City to accommodate more students. The old campus houses several smaller high schools and charter schools. Admission to Stuyvesant involves passing the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test , required for the New York City Public Schools system. Every March, approximately 800 to 850 applicants with

14496-854: The highest SHSAT scores are accepted, out of about 30,000 students who apply to Stuyvesant. Extracurricular activities at the school include a Math Team, Speech and Debate Team, a yearly theater competition and various student publications including a newspaper, a yearbook , and literary magazines. Stuyvesant has educated four Nobel laureates . Notable alumni include former United States Attorney General Eric Holder , physicists Brian Greene and Lisa Randall , economist Thomas Sowell , mathematician Paul Cohen , chemist Roald Hoffmann , biologist Eric Lander , Oscar-winning actor James Cagney , comedian Billy Eichner , young adult fiction author Jordan Sonnenblick , and chess grandmaster Robert Hess . The then independent city of Brooklyn 's Superintendent of Schools, William Henry Maxwell , had first written in

14647-500: The late '60s. Now Poly and City still met for the 120th time on November 8, 2008, with guarded anticipation and some added security plus an intensive discussion program at both schools the several weeks before. The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and The Baltimore City College then met subsequently peacefully again for the 121st time on November 7, 2009, with the score of 26–20. The renewed tradition again continued with Poly"s "Engineers" and City's "Collegians" / "Black Knights" meeting for

14798-566: The later opening Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in East Baltimore. Dr. Dehuff later after his retirement in 1958 and his 37 years career at the Polytechnic Institute, became the president and dean of faculty at the then private institution, the University of Baltimore on Mount Royal Avenue. Most Baltimore City public schools since 1870 were not integrated until after the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of May 1954 in

14949-530: The less memorable first Saturday in November, and a subsequent loss of high attendance, publicity and media coverage with occasional radio / television broadcasts. They also missed playing with the longtime holiday double-header tradition with the morning "Catholic Game" at the 33rd Street stadium between Roman Catholic high schools' similar arch-rivalry between Calvert Hall College ("Cardinals") versus Loyola High School at Blakefield ("Dons"), played since 1920 (now in their 104th game). Then Poly and City met for

15100-487: The local prep sports scene. However, since joining the newer state-wide Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association ( MPSSAA – founded 1946) in 1993, Poly made it to the final playoff football game once in 1993, the semi-finals once in 1997 and the quarterfinals in 1994 and 1998. The Poly-City football rivalry is the oldest American football rivalry in Maryland and one of the oldest public school rivalries in

15251-457: The mid-1970s. Special thick editions of the two student newspapers "The Poly Press" (founded 1922) and "The Collegian" (established 1929). They were also packed with advertising from local commercial businesses and ads from various homeroom / classes, organizations, clubs and individuals. Plus "The Collegian" was printed on orange newsprint paper to match the black ink for their school colors of "The Black & Orange". They frequently continued

15402-598: The molecular basis of cancer, nutrition science, and psychology. The chemistry and physics departments include classes in organic chemistry , physical chemistry , astronomy, engineering mechanics, and electronics . The English Department offers students courses in classical literature, Shakespearean literature, science fiction, philosophy, existentialism , debate , acting, journalism, creative writing, and poetry. The Social Studies core requires two years of global history (or one year of global followed by one year of European history), one year of American history , as well as

15553-402: The months after the attacks, Annie Thoms, an English teacher at Stuyvesant and the theater adviser at the time, suggested that the students take accounts of staff and students' reactions during and after September 11, 2001, and complile them into a collection of monologues. Thoms then published these monologues as With Their Eyes: September 11—The View from a High School at Ground Zero . During

15704-427: The need for more basic mathematical and scientific preparation in New York's growing numbers of public secondary schools in the late 19th century. The first such school in the city was Manual Training High School in Brooklyn, which opened in 1893. By 1899, now positioned as the newly-formed City of Greater New York 's Superintendent of Public Schools, Maxwell was advocating for another specialized high school across

15855-439: The new Homewood Field of the "Blue Jays" of The Johns Hopkins University at their new spacious campus off North Charles Street and University Parkway, where they moved in 1914. City leads the series with the record standing at 66–62–6. Little is known of the first American football game between the Manual Training School ancestor of the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute ("Poly") and The Baltimore City College ("City") in

16006-457: The new Major League Baseball team in the American League of the transplanted new Baltimore Orioles , moving from St. Louis (as the former lackluster St, Louis Browns ). At the same time Poly-City football continued there on 33rd Street also moved into the new rebuilt athletic bowl continuing holding annual gridiron renewals of sports combat here attracting crowds of 30 to 40,000 fans in

16157-457: The new Stuyvesant High School building. Each block contains relics providing evidence of geographical, historical, natural, cultural, and social worlds, from antiquity to the present time. The blocks are set into the hallway walls and scattered throughout the building. Each block is inscribed with a brief description of its contents or context. The items displayed include pieces of the 15th Street Stuyvesant building, fragments of monuments from around

16308-483: The new high school was changed a decade later in 1893 to "The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute" by the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners of the Baltimore City Public Schools . The first principals at the B.M.T.S. were Dr. Richard Grady, followed by two American naval officers, Lieutenant John D. Ford ( U.S.N. ), and Lieutenant William King (U.S.N.). Lt. King had such long lasting beginning influence on

16459-566: The new municipal Clifton Park (of the late noted Baltimore merchant / banker / philanthropist Johns Hopkins (1795–1873) summer / country estate and mansion "Clifton") against a team of "scrubs" from the new Baltimore Manual Training School (the future renamed Baltimore Polytechnic Institute ("Poly") four years later in 1893), then located on the northeast corner of the former Courtland / now St. Paul Street and East Saratoga Street in Downtown Baltimore . It has continued annually every Fall season in numerous locations, parks and fields, most notably at

16610-440: The new technical high school's academic rigor and traditions giving the school a naval flavor in its early decades. Because of this seminal influence, the connecting structure at the new 1967 campus at Cold Spring and Falls (with a distinctive outside stone facade and engraving with the school name) between the two new building wings of the academic and engineering halls (future also renamed "Dehuff" and "Burkert Halls") which contains

16761-503: The newly built football bowl of Municipal Stadium (a.k.a. the Baltimore Stadium or as Venable Park Stadium on the north side of the newly landscaped 33rd Street boulevard in the former Venable Park, seating almost 100,000 and constructed in six months in a crash-program during 1923. It would serve the city and visiting college teams like Army (West Point) and Navy (Annapolis), Maryland (College Park), Notre Dame and others. In 1946 with

16912-413: The next half century with each school keeping it for showing off in the exhibit glass cases in the following year in the Poly "Memorial Corridor" or City's central "Trophy Hall", and being retired after a number of victories. Several were made over the decades and each school still has some on display as cherished historical icons of past glories. Colorful printed program booklets were published annually by

17063-443: The original Saint Paul Street (which paralleled it to the west), between Calvert Street to the east and Charles Street up the hill to the west. This major demolition project was to permit the construction of new terraced "Preston Gardens" and adjacent Saint Paul Place which ran from East Centre Street in the north to East Lexington Street in the south occurred at the end of the mayoral administration of James H. Preston in 1919–1920. It

17214-436: The other schools using the test. Admission is currently based on an individual's score on the examination and the pre-submitted ranking of Stuyvesant among the other specialized schools. Ninth- and rising tenth–grade students are also eligible to take the test for enrollment, but far fewer students are admitted that way. The test covers math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension) skills. For most of

17365-457: The others in the 1980s after the Institute's centennial celebration. The first building location designated in 1883 for the new manual training / technical school was located in part of a former grammar (elementary) school building on the earlier former site of the old central City Spring and small surrounding pocket park from colonial era days of old Baltimore Town on now disappeared Courtland Street just north of East Saratoga Street. This area

17516-543: The passage of the Hecht-Calandra Act, in the New York State Legislature which preserved admissions by examination only. Along with then New York Schools Chancellor Rudy Crew (born 1950, N.Y.C. public schools chancellor, 1995–1999), a community activist group began an initiative for more diversity in the city's gifted and specialized schools, in particular demanding the SHSAT be suspended altogether until

17667-725: The peace after World War II , it was the site also of the first professional football team in town, the first incarnation of the Baltimore Colts in the new All America Football Conference and then followed into the later merger with the National Football League in 1950. Old Municipal Stadium endured up to 1949 housing both minor league Baltimore Orioles of the International League when their old home of Oriole Park (the fifth one, built 1914 originally as Terrapin Park for

17818-665: The pier after construction and delivery of an artificial turf pitching mound that met Public Schools Athletic League specifications. Stuyvesant also has its own swimming pool, but it does not contain its own running track or tennis court. The student body of Stuyvesant High School is represented by the Stuyvesant Student Union, a student government . It comprises a group of students (elected each year for each grade) who promote and manage extracurricular activities (clubs and publications), by organizing out-of-school activity such as city excursions or fundraisers, and provide

17969-533: The post- Second World War " baby boom " plus slowness in new construction and were heavily overcrowded, sometimes operating on split -shifts, but the scholastic sports programs continued to prosper, strive and inspire generations of Poly and City boys. The "Blue and Orange" team's fortunes changed later in the 1960s, when City was coached during the decade by their legendary coach George Young . Young (a Calvert Hall alumnus, City College history teacher and future Baltimore Colts front office executive and later to lead

18120-471: The pre-national sports franchises era, continuing on 33rd until the 1990s. Scheduled on Thanksgiving Day afternoons and with traditional students, cheerleaders, floats and teams parades west from City's "Castle" and north from old Poly on North Avenue were popular. Plus tailgating in the surrounding old stadium parking lots and checking out the earlier activities of the morning football game between Roman Catholic high schools Calvert Hall and Loyola. In 1926,

18271-692: The production's casts, choruses, or costume and tech crews to Step, Hip-Hop, Swing, Modern, Bolly, Flow, Tap or Latin dance groups. SING! begins in late January to February and ends in final performances on three nights in March/April. Scoring is done on each night's performances and the winner is determined by the overall total. The Stuyvesant High School has produced many notable alumni , including four Nobel laureates . As of 2024, U.S. News & World Report magazine ranked Stuyvesant as 2nd among New York City high schools and 21st among STEM high schools. In December 2007, The Wall Street Journal studied

18422-509: The proposed 15th Street school building. All of these locations were named after Peter Stuyvesant (1610–1672), the last Dutch Director (governor) of New Netherland (and its major port town of New Amsterdam ), 1647–1665, and owner of the area's Stuyvesant Farm . The appellation of a specific historical name was selected to avoid confusion with Brooklyn's earlier Manual Training High School. Stuyvesant High School opened in September 1904 as Manhattan's first specialized high school. At

18573-567: The river in the newly established borough of Manhattan . In January 1903 Maxwell and Snyder submitted a report to the New York City Board of Education in which they suggested the creation of a school in Manhattan. The Board of Education approved the plans in April 1904. They suggested that the school occupy a plot on East 15th Street, west of First Avenue. However, that plot did not yet contain

18724-413: The same now vanished narrow alley-like Courtland Street!!. Both schools began on the same street a short distance from each other separated by a near half-century of time. Due to continued growth of the student population of the City's Public Schools system in the early 20th century and especially in the growing demand for higher secondary education at high schools like at the B.P.I.and the rival B.C.C. and

18875-470: The same street of Courtland 44 years later, (almost a half-century) after their long-time arch-rival public high school, The Baltimore City College , (then known only as "The High School" for its first five years) was earlier established facing the same street in a rented small two-story rowhouse with pitched roof and dormer attic window in October 1839 where it remained for only a few short years to 1843, also on

19026-490: The school's core curriculum would be separated for the rest, and that a discrete trade school would operate in the Stuyvesant building during the evening. Thereafter, Stuyvesant became renowned for excellence in math and science. 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. By 1919 officials started restricting admission based on academic achievement. Stuyvesant implemented

19177-591: The second most of any secondary school in the United States behind the Bronx High School of Science. In 2014, Stuyvesant had 11 semi-finalists for the Intel Search, the highest number of any school in the U.S. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute , colloquially referred to as BPI , Poly , and The Institute , is a US public high school founded in 1883. Established as an all-male manual trade / vocational high school by

19328-402: The several daily papers in town. Poly dominated the series in the subsequent 1910s. The only year of that decade that City won was 1912, and between 1914 and 1917, Poly shut out City. Poly's streak continued through 1921, completing a nine-year winning streak, which City finally broke in 1922 with a 27–0 victory. During this time for the next three decades, many P.-C. games would be played at

19479-507: The surrounding development of Battery Park City. Stuyvesant's principal at the time, Abraham Baumel, visited the country's most advanced laboratories to gather ideas about what to include in the new Stuyvesant building's 12 laboratory rooms. The new 10-story building also included banks of escalators, glass-walled studios on the roof, and a shorter four-story northern wing with a swimming pool, five gymnasiums, and an auditorium. Construction began in 1989. When it opened five years later in 1992,

19630-470: The terraced gardens and a landscaped St. Paul Place in the five blocks. The former B.M.T.S. / B.P.I. building was on the east side (and earlier elementary school structure it occupied dating back to the 1840s) after the high school moved further north to East North Avenue and North Calvert Street in 1912–1913. Two decades later by 1935 it became home to the newly established Baltimore City Department of Public Welfare (now renamed Social Services Department) during

19781-421: The time of its opening, the school consisted of 155 male students and 12 teachers. At first, the school provided a core curriculum of "English, Latin, modern languages, history, mathematics, physics, chemistry, [and] music," as well as a physical education program and a more specialized track of "woodworking, metalworking, mechanical drawing, [and] freehand drawing." However, in June 1908, Maxwell announced that

19932-656: The total student body. In 1972, the New York State Legislature in the state capital of Albany passed the Hecht–Calandra Act, which designated four city-wide selective specialized public high schools in New York City of: Brooklyn Technical High School , Bronx High School of Science, Stuyvesant High School, and the High School of Music & Art (now renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School ) as specialized high schools of New York City. The act called for

20083-403: The two girls high schools of Eastern and Western, the City's technical school relocated after a long public campaign for larger better facilities ten blocks further north from downtown in 1913 to Calvert Street and North Avenue (formerly known as Boundary Avenue, of the old City / County line of 1818–1888. The former old 1860s era converted mansion of French Second Empire style architecture of

20234-399: The underground Howard Street Tunnel bypassing congested Downtown Baltimore for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ). After seven years of temporary exile in a former elementary school building they returned again to the same site at Howard and Centre to a new larger home followed in 1899, remaining there although increasingly overcrowded until the move to the "Castle" in 1928. The City College

20385-421: The winning field goal against City in the 1926 fall classic, later became the head coach at his former arch-rival City College leading to some of its most winningest seasons and success stories in the following decade and subsequently joining the B.C.C. faculty as a longtime guidance counselor from the '30s into the 1970s, becoming a "Castle" legend and only Poly alumnus inducted into the B.C.C. Hall of Fame . It

20536-571: The world, as well as the highest number of students who reach the AP courses' "mastery level". As of 2018 , there are 31 AP classes offered, with a little more than half of all students taking at least one AP class, and about 98% of students pass their AP tests. Stuyvesant fields 32 athletics varsity teams , including the swimming, golf, bowling , volleyball, soccer, basketball, gymnastics, wrestling , fencing , baseball/softball, tennis, track / cross country , cricket , football , and lacrosse teams. In addition, Stuyvesant has ultimate teams for

20687-596: The world, memorabilia from each of the 88 years' history of the old building, a Revolutionary War button, water from the Nile River, fragments of the Mayan pyramids , and various chemical compounds. Empty blocks were also installed to be filled with items chosen by each of the graduating classes up through 2080. The S.H.S. installation later received the Award for Excellence in Design from

20838-462: Was a whites-only school but supported by municipal taxes on the general population. No black schools in the city (black students could not attend whites-only schools) offered such courses, nor did they have classrooms, labs, libraries or teachers comparable to those at B.P.I. or at the similar level of The Baltimore City College . Because of this, a group of 16 Baltimoreans African American students, with help and support from their parents, along with

20989-509: Was able to produce and narrate documentaries which aired locally and nationally. Herlinger was a voice actor for Adventures in Odyssey for 12 years. His major role on the show was the voice of John Avery Whittaker from 1996 to 2008. He died on February 2, 2010. Herlinger also narrated a documentary which aired nationally on public television stations titled As Close As Your Dare-Africa. This article about an American voice actor born in

21140-471: Was appointed as interim director for the subsequent 2011–2012 school year. By the end of that term – and after a parallel two-year, nationwide search – Williams became the first female director of the Polytechnic Institute. Williams had worked her way through the Poly ranks from student (Class of 1981), to faculty as teacher, then department head, to assistant principal, and to dean of students, before appointment to her position as B.P.I. director. Recently during

21291-455: Was designed to be fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.) and is listed as such by the New York City Department of Education. As a result, the building is one of the 5 additional sites of P721M, a school for students with multiple disabilities who are between the ages of 15 and 21. In 1997, the eastern end of the mathematics floor was dedicated to Richard Rothenberg,

21442-454: Was during these times that the longtime local afternoon daily newspaper The Evening Sun (published 1910–1995, part of the three published papers of The Baltimore Sunpapers (with the morning paper The Sun begun 1837)) from the A.S. Abell & Company commissioned a beautiful huge (and extremely heavy!!) bronze statue sculpture of a crouched football player on a mahogany wood base known as "The Evening Sun Trophy" and several were made over

21593-599: Was expanded in 1938 to include the newly founded Bronx High School of Science . In 1967 Alice de Rivera filed a lawsuit against the Board of Education, alleging that she had been banned from taking Stuyvesant's entrance exam because of her gender. The lawsuit was decided in the student's favor, and Stuyvesant was required to accept female students. The first female students were accepted in September 1969, when Stuyvesant offered admission to 14 girls and enrolled 12 of them. The next year, 223 female students were accepted to Stuyvesant. By 2015, young women represented 43% of

21744-412: Was founded in the 1973–1974 academic year as an independent publication only loosely sanctioned by school officials. It had the appearance of a magazine and gained a large readership. The Voice attracted a considerable amount of controversy and a First Amendment Constitutional lawsuit, after which the administration forced it to go off-campus and to turn commercial in 1975–1976. At the beginning of

21895-452: Was mandated by a new Superintendent of Schools who had earlier spent his career in the neighboring suburban Baltimore County public schools system who were original charter members of the competing MPSSAA which had grown in the postwar period and he wanted the City schools to participate in the statewide playoffs tournaments in the various sports (with championship games played at the large venues of Byrd Stadium and Cole Fieldhouse arena at

22046-418: Was occupied by numerous African American black professionals and commercial offices in this downtown district and the razing and creation of the terraced gardens was to protect the nearby wealthy cultural Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood on the heights to the west and north around the historic Washington Monument from any unwanted racial encroachment. The old Courtland Street was wiped out and replaced by

22197-400: Was one of the most famous Poly-City games ever played. Prior to the game, the eligibility of City's halfback, Mickey Noonen, was challenged. A committee was formed to investigate Noonen's eligibility, but Noonen's father—frustrated with the investigation—struck one of the members of the committee. The result was that Noonen was not only barred from the "Collegians" team, but also expelled from

22348-401: Was played to compensate. Between 1903 and 1906, City won the series, but the tide soon turned in 1907, when the first tie in the 18th match of the series occurred. The next year in the 19th clash in 1908, Poly scored its first victory in the almost two decades long athletic rivalry now gaining widespread popularity and following among Baltimore sports fans and publicity in the sports pages of

22499-418: Was ranked 1552 nationally and 44 in Maryland as a "Silver Medal School" by U.S. News & World Report magazine. In 2004, Dr. Barney Wilson, a 1976 Poly graduate, became Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's first African-American director. Following his six years tenure in August 2010, assistant principal Matthew Woolston, was appointed interim director. Later on during that academic year, Jacqueline Williams

22650-703: Was still no increase in percentages to the attendance of black and Hispanic children. The New York City Department of Education reported in 2003 that public per student spending at Stuyvesant High School is slightly lower than the city average. Stuyvesant also receives private contributions from alumni, retired faculty, charitable foundations and educational grants to build up a school endowment. The college-preparatory curriculum at Stuyvesant mostly includes four years of English, history, and laboratory-based sciences. The sciences courses include requisite biology , chemistry , and physics classes. Students also take four years of mathematics. Students also take three years of

22801-736: Was three blocks northwest of the Baltimore City Courthouse and the adjacent historic Battle Monument square (commemorating from the British naval and land attack in the famous Battle of Baltimore and bombardment of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812 in September 1814). It was unfortunately later contained in Baltimore's first "urban renewal" plan with the tearing down of five square blocks in this then northern reaches of Downtown Baltimore of what today would be architecturally significant and historic residential townhouses along old Courtland Street and

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