Hundreds of students at Manhattan’s elite Beacon High School staged ... girl complaining to two white school counselors about affirmative action in the college admissions process.

Ventura, a former school counselor, came to Beacon from Brooklyn Technical High School ... of the city’s most fiery debates ...

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 protest ...

The embattled interim principal of Manhattan’s Beacon High School is withdrawing ... first principal of color at a school ...

High school students take AP® exams and IB exams to earn college credit and demonstrate success at college-level coursework. U.S. News calculated a College Readiness Index based on AP/IB exam ...

For example, in the case of Goldstein High School, which, unlike Beacon, bases admissions solely on grades, test scores, and attendance, 4,947 students ranked the school in 2016, 512 received offers ...

Students skipped class Monday to teach their own lessons about what they say is a culture of racism at the elite Beacon public high school ... after she was deferred admission from her top ...