The Beacon School, a high performing public high school on Manhattan’s West Side, counts the children of some powerful city figures among its students. Gov. Paterson’s son Alex is a fre… ...

The Beacon School in Manhattan is one of the city's top non-specialized high schools. Rashid Umar Abbasi With more than 400 public high schools to choose from, the options for New York City ...

We went to the Beacon School in Manhattan to check out what backpacks high school students were the most popular. Jansport, Herschel, Nike, Adidas, and North Face were the brands that popped up ...

A crisis over education at Beacon, one of New York City’s most coveted high schools, is sparking a larger debate over the ...

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 ...

Mr. de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara, attended Beacon. The high school, in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, is now at the center of a push for large-scale desegregation that Mr. de Blasio’s ...

The Beacon School in Manhattan is lighting up its stage with “Spring Awakening,” and it’s the first New York City revival of the 2006 Tony-winning, pop-rock musical. Directed by Jo Ann ...

Though New York’s school system is mostly black and Hispanic, its highest-performing schools are largely white and Asian. Beacon’s student population was half white last year, and about a ...

A Manhattan-based nonprofit is suing the Beacon City School District and four other Hudson Valley governments, alleging they failed to comply with Freedom of Information Law requests seeking ...

Several students at Manhattan’s Beacon School told the Forward they supported a moment of silence for Palestinians killed during the Gaza protests, May 21, 2018. Image by Ben Fractenberg.