Stuyvesant High School's Chronic Lack of Black Students - The Atlantic

Stuyvesant High School's Chronic Lack of Black Students - The Atlantic: Seven black students were accepted to Stuyvesant High School this year. Five years ago, the number was exactly the same.



The first sentence of the New York Times story was like a blow to the gut. “Seven black students have been offered a chance to start classes at Stuyvesant High School in September,” out of 952 total offers. It was two fewer black students than the nine the school had accepted the year prior in a freshman class of 963 students. In response, a state lawmaker declared that he would redraft a bill he had introduced three years earlier to change the admissions policies at the school; the city reeled. It was 2014.