Attending Townsend Harris High School means keeping up with the academic rigor, being involved in after-school activities and participating in sports, and volunteering both in and outside of school. These...

The pounding of my heart drowns out the insistent reminder from my teacher to "keep our eyes on our own paper." My nails dig into my palm as I scratch out yet another one of my failed attempts to answer...

Starting this May, CollegeBoard is discontinuing standard paper testing for 28 AP exams, which are now replaced with either fully digital exams on Bluebook, or hybrid exams where students complete a multiple-choice...

Ramadan began on February 28, and throughout this month, numerous students will be fasting while also working hard on all of their coursework at Townsend Harris. This represents one of the ways in which...

I read the Winter Carnival article (“Annual Winter Carnival cancelled due to low signups from clubs”) and wanted to respond because the article (although very well written) isn't telling the whole...

At Townsend Harris, the club making process involves developing a new club idea, finding a teacher to be your club advisor, having good grades and good attendance, and getting signatures of students that...

Earlier this month, Saloni Sethi, Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, reached out to The Classic to share her thoughts on the importance of healthy teen...

I woke up one Thursday at 5:30 in the morning. I dragged myself out of bed, barely able to get ready for zero band. That day, by 7th band, I was hoping for school to end. I had been up for eight hours...

Townsend Harris is known for its rigorous and intense academic program. As a top ranked school in New York City, keeping up with assignments poses an issue for some students, but with school starting early...

By September 2028, NYS high school classes, excluding physical education, will be capped at 25 students as a result of New York State's class size law. This legislation was sponsored by our state senator,...

The transition from one school to another can be hard, especially during high school. For transfer students coming into Townsend Harris High School, the environment can be very different as they are faced...

Many high school students across the country have the privilege of an open campus, where students are able to go out and purchase out-of-school lunch as opposed to eating the lunch provided by their school....