Bronx High School of Science
| Bronx High School of Science | |
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| type of school | High school |
| founding | 1938 |
| address |
75 W 205th Street |
| place | Bronx , New York City |
| State | new York |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 40 ° 52 '40 " N , 73 ° 53' 28" W |
| carrier | New York City Department of Education |
| student | 2,997 |
| Teachers | 134.01 ( FTE ) |
| management | Jean Donahue |
| Website | www.bxscience.edu |
The Bronx High School of Science is a publicly funded secondary school in the Bronx, New York . It is geared towards special support for gifted students, primarily in the fields of mathematics and the natural sciences , but also in the humanities and social sciences . Students are selected on the basis of an access test known as the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). This test, which is used by several other specialty schools in New York in addition to the Bronx High School of Science, is open to all students who meet certain minimum requirements in terms of age and academic performance. Attending the school is free of charge due to public funding. Lessons take place from the ninth to the twelfth grade. The school is under the supervision of the New York City Department of Education .
The school, initially restricted to boys, was founded in 1938 by a resolution of the Board of Education of the City of New York. From 1946, girls were also accepted. 13 years later the school moved into the building that is still in use today. The number of students is currently around 3,000, who are taught and supervised by around 140 teachers. The proportion of teachers with a doctorate is significantly higher than at other secondary schools. New teachers are selected according to a system that is comparable to the appointment process for professors in universities . The school's equipment includes computer cabinets and scientific experimental laboratories as well as a weather station , a planetarium , greenhouses and a foreign language center .
Almost all students at the Bronx High School of Science graduate from college , many of them at the universities that make up the Ivy League . Among the graduates are eight Nobel Prize winners ( Leon N. Cooper , Sheldon L. Glashow , Steven Weinberg , Melvin Schwartz , Russell A. Hulse , H. David Politzer , Roy J. Glauber , Robert J. Lefkowitz ), more than for any other secondary School in the world and also more than for many prestigious universities. In addition, six graduates have won a Pulitzer Prize in later life and six have been awarded the National Medal of Science .
Among the current members of the National Academy of Sciences are 29 graduates from the Bronx High School of Science, making up around 1.5 percent of the academy's approximately 2,000 members. Other well-known graduates are the mathematician Barry Mazur , the computer scientists Marvin Minsky , Gregory Chaitin , Martin Hellman and Leslie Lamport , the synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog , the actor Jon Cryer , the writer EL Doctorow and the architect Daniel Libeskind .
Web links
- The Bronx High School of Science Official Website
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Bronx High School of Sciences . National Center for Education Statistics