2022-23 School Performance Dashboard, Mark Twain I.S. 239
Date: 2023
Caption: The New York City Department of Education prepares a report on each school each year. This report shows data about Mark Twain’s student population and its students’ achievement on standardized tests, as compared to the city overall. Visit the report dashboard
As a “gifted and talented” school, Mark Twain accepts applicants from all over the city. This report from the NYC Department of Education describes who attends Mark Twain and how students who attend do on standardized tests.
Some of the data compares Mark Twain’s student population to the city’s population of students living in poverty, for example, or students learning English.
New York City today has several other schools that operate similarly. Students from all over the city can take tests for admissions to these “specialized high schools,” like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science. These schools today have a very small population of Black and Latinx students.1
Would you describe Mark Twain today as a segregated school? Why or why not?
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Troy Closson, “Stuyvesant High School admitted 762 new students. Only 7 are Black.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/nyregion/stuyvesant-high-school-black-students.html, accessed June 6, 2024; Jillian Jorgenson, “Demographics of who is getting matched to some of the city’s top high schools remain largely unchanged,” Spectrum News NY1, June 4, 2023. ↩︎
Categories: Brooklyn, K-12 organizing
Tags: racist segregation, curriculum
This item is part of "Admissions and Access at Mark Twain Today" in "How Did New York City Segregate its Schools?"
Item Details
Date: 2023
Creator: New York City Department of Education
Source: New York City Public Schools
Copyright: Government document
How to cite: “2022-23 School Performance Dashboard, Mark Twain I.S. 239,” New York City Department of Education, in New York City Civil Rights History Project, Accessed: [Month Day, Year], https://nyccivilrightshistory.org/gallery/mark-twain-school-performance-dashboard.
Questions to Consider
- Who does Mark Twain serve?
- How has the decision to make Mark Twain a “gifted and talented” school shaped the student population at Mark Twain?
- How do you think “selective admission” schools like Mark Twain and the specialized high schools contribute to segregation throughout the city? Do you think New York City should have “selective admission” schools? Why or why not?
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