Bronx High School of Science
The Bronx High School of Science is a public high school in the Bronx, New York City. Founded in 1938 with a traditional focus on mathematics and science, "Bronx Science," as the school is known, is one of a triumvirate of elite public schools in New York City, and is often hailed as one of the best high schools in America.
Together with Stuyvesant High School (in Manhattan) and Brooklyn Technical High School, Bronx Science is part of three original Specialized Science High Schools of New York City.
Admission to the three schools is by competitive examination only, and only residents of the five boroughs of the City of New York are eligible to attend.
The school is a perennial leader in the Intel/Westinghouse science competition.
It is a member of the NCSSSMST.
Bronx Science counts five Nobel Prize winners among its graduates, the most of any secondary school in the world, and five Pulitzer Prize winners. Other noted graduates include columnist William Safire and former Executive Editor Joseph Lelyveld of The New York Times, singer Bobby Darin, author Samuel Delany, actors Jon Favreau and Jon Cryer, Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael, Olympic water polo player Wolf Wigo, and architect Daniel Libeskind.
The current Principal is Ms. Valerie J. Reidy.
