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 ...

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.