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Overview:

Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School, located in midtown Manhattan, and founded in 2013, is a Career and Technical Education (CTE) high school dedicated to preparing a diverse group of students for careers, college, and citizenship. As the only high school in the nation with a National Park Service partnership, we offer our students a specialized education in these trades. Through hands-on exploration and training, our students learn the preservation arts of: carpentry, masonry, decorative finishing, and landscape stewardship – while simultaneously being prepared for college readiness.

 

Enrollment:

Mather serves 311 students, grades 9-12 who come from all five boroughs of NYC. We are a Title I school, where all Mather students qualify for free and reduce lunch. Our demographics are 67% Hispanic, 25.3% Black, 3% Asian, 4% White. 54% of students are male and 46% are female. 24% of our student population receives Special Education services.

 

Advisory:

  • Mather students meet twice weekly in an Advisory class to learn a curriculum that targets their social-emotional learning, post-secondary plans, and community building skills. 
  • They remain with the same group from 9th grade to 12th grade.

 

Class Ranks:

The Class of 2026 has 66 Seniors, a weighted rank will be provided when asked. 

 

Grading System

  • Students have the opportunity to earn: 
    • CTE Endorsement
    • Seal of Civic Readiness
    • Seal of Biliteracy
  • A class with a passing mark is awarded 2 course credits; representing one full year of academic coursework. 
  • All students are subject to the Regents requirements of the New York State Education Department. Students graduate either with a Regents or Advanced Regents Diploma. 
  • Mather uses mastery-based grading where skills are assessed and students are awarded a 1-4 that is converted to a 100-point GPA. 

 

A.P. Classes:

Mather currently offers 8 AP courses. They may start taking APs their Junior year. *Weighted in the GPA at a factor of 1.10

  • AP Psychology
  • AP World History: Modern
  • AP United States History
  • AP United States Government and Politics
  • AP Literature and Composition
  • AP Language and Composition
  • AP Spanish Language and Culture*
  • AP Statistics
  • AP Environmental Science (offered AY 24-25)

*Mather HS offers one year of foreign language; students choose Spanish for Beginners, Spanish for Heritage Speakers or AP Spanish.