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Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots

Only 7 Black Students Got Into N.Y.’s Most Selective High School, Out of 895 Spots

Five years ago, just seven Black students were accepted to one of New York City’s top public specialized schools, Stuyvesant High School. This year, 2019, the number was exactly the same.

Not much has improved as far as Black enrollment at the prestigious, public high school that specializes in science, mathematics, and technology. Black enrollment today is the same as it was five years ago.

Stuyvesant is a specialized high school operated by the New York City Department of Education. It offers tuition-free accelerated academics to city residents. According to the New York City Department of Education, this year more than 27,000 eighth graders took the Specialized High School Admissions Test, an aptitude test for admission to eight of the nine selective high schools in NYC. Out of those students, 4,798 students received offers based on those exam scores. “Of those offers, 10.5 percent went to Black and Latino students—a tenth of a tick up from the 10.4 percent of offers in 2018—despite New York City’s public schools being nearly 66 percent Black and Latino,” The Atlantic reported. Currently, the student body is 74% Asian American.

These stats are not surprising. A 2014 study from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, found that the public schools in New York State are the most segregated in the country. This is especially true in New York City.

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