Stuyvesant High School Admitted 762 New Students. Only 7 Are Black. New York City’s specialized high schools represent perhaps the highest-profile symbol of segregation in the nation’s largest school system.
End of All-Girls Swim Class Causes Controversy at Stuyvesant High School Swimming is required to graduate with full honors from the elite Manhattan public school. Some Muslim girls worried the shift to co-ed classes would pit their academic goals against their religion.