Roughly 300 students walked out of Beacon on Monday to protest its high-stakes admissions process, which they said has exacerbated segregation in the nation’s largest school system.

The debates over admissions resurfaced during the pandemic — amid a citywide reckoning over the effect of school admissions policies on diversity at selective high schools — and as Beacon’s ...

Approximately 26,000 students competed for seats at the specialized high schools this year, according to the city.

Beacon is among the city’s larger high schools, with just under 1,500 students. The school has a sizable Jewish population, and about 15 percent of pupils are Black.