Stuyvesant High School is a school which selects its students by competitive examination. As many as 20,000 students are tested each year and approximately 800 are accepted. Stuyvesant was founded in 1904 and through the years has served as a premier school for the development of talent in science, mathematics and technology. From its inception it has been a school which serves an immigrant population and continues in that role today. The student body has representatives from virtually every nation in the world and one can find a native speaker of most of the languages of the world. The school was housed in the same building for 89+ years. In September 1992, a multi million dollar building was completed in Battery Park City for Stuyvesant High School. The complex contains 12 laboratories, 12 shops (including robotics, energy, digitally controlled machines, etc.), and also more than 450 computers in 13 networks -- each student and teacher has individual access to the network. There is a 16" color monitor in each classroom, with 50 channels of communication, a satellite dish antenna, etc. Although the school fields 30 athletic teams, no football fields, baseball fields, nor tennis courts exist. Despite these limitations, our teams have won as many as two-thirds of their Divisional Championships.

The student body represents virtually every socioeconomic level of the city and has a degree of independence and creativity which is unusual. Four Nobel Laureates, as well as a host of leaders in science, mathematics, government, law, the arts, and music, are included among the graduates. Students travel from all parts of the City to the school which is situated at the northern end of Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. We now have a magnificent view of the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and the New York Harbor. Our students use all the facilities of the City for their education. Each year, hundreds of them are engaged in advanced research work in all the universities, laboratories and hospitals throughout the five boroughs. Similarly, the athletic teams use practice fields near the school for football, fields in Central Park for baseball, and tennis courts at Flushing Meadows.

Stuyvesant High School was founded in 1904 as a "manual training school for boys." Our students are selected by a competitive examination which is open to all residents of New York City. The achievements of our students are remarkable. We have consistently had large numbers of National Merit Scholars, ranking Stuyvesant as 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in the nation. Each year in the Intel Science Talent Search, we have had the largest number of students in the Honors Group (47 in 1988, 26 in 1989, 39 in 1990, 42 in 1991, 29 in 1992, 33 in 1993). In 1988 our students placed first and second in the nation, a feat never before accomplished by any other school.

Our school has one of the largest and most successful Debate Teams in the country. They recently retired the Cardinal Cooke Trophy after successive years of success in the Catholic Forensic League. Our Math Teams have won almost every competition in New York City and New York State and many on the national level. In the last year they were offered, our graduating class won 629 New York State Regents Scholarships, the largest in the state by a large margin. The accomplishments of Stuyvesant students in all areas have been exceptional and have set precedents for the city, state and nation. Our music program has been honored repeatedly. Our student publications have won numerous awards. (There are more than 30 publications.) In 1988, our students were selected as Foster Parents of the Year because they sponsored more foster children than any institution in the world. Last year, our graduates won in excess of $30,000,000 in scholarships.

With our outstanding record of academic achievement and our commitment to excellence, we feel that Stuyvesant High School merits the national recognition it has attained.