Beacon’s student population is about half white, a striking anomaly in a public school system that is nearly 70 percent black and Hispanic. Beacon is not a specialized high school — it has no ...

Hundreds of students at Manhattan’s elite Beacon High School staged a sit-in Monday — apparently with the blessing of their principal — to protest what they say is a pattern of campus-wide ...

Many Beacon High School students said they were asked to keep their masks on by teachers — even after Mayor Eric Adams made the coverings optional. Primary Menu Sections. US News.

On a recent Tuesday, there were about a hundred mostly white parents queued up at 2:30 p.m. in the spitting rain outside of Beacon High School, some toting snacks and even a few folding chairs for ...

Student leaders at Beacon High School in Hell?s Kitchen, Manhattan, organized a sit-in Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, to protest what they described as a culture of racism school administrators have ...

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 ...