More than 300 students at the selective public high school, one of New York City’s most prestigious, protested its admissions policies. By Eliza Shapiro Naia Timmons, a junior from Harlem, stood ...

Beacon’s student population was half white last year ... a tiny number of black students got into the ultra-selective Stuyvesant High School, which has more low-income students than Beacon ...

Beacon High School students are staging a sit-in on Monday ... white students make up half of the population at Beacon, and black students account for less than 15 percent. After more than a ...

The student population changed “at a pace ... Ventura, a former school counselor, came to Beacon from Brooklyn Technical High ...

As juniors at Beacon High School in New York City ... We collected over 650 signatures, slightly under half of our entire student population, in just two weeks. We also gave presentations in different ...

NEW YORK — Naia Timmons, a junior from Harlem, stood surrounded by classmates in the middle of the street outside Beacon High School as hail began to fall. Beacon High School Is Half White.