Stephen T. Mather Building Arts & Craftsmanship High School (02M139) 
439 West 49Th Street, Manhattan, NY 10019, Manhattan
Phone: 212-399-3520
Email: mrmayer@matherhsnyc.org
Hours: 08:00am - 02:39pm
Principal: Christopher Mayer
School Website: https://www.matherhsnyc.org/
NYCDOE Website: https://www.myschools.nyc/en/schools/high-school/47839
Quality Snapshot: https://tools.nycenet.edu/snapshot/2022/02M139/HS/
Subway: 1, 2, 3, 7, A, S to 42nd St; B, D to 7th Av; C, E to 50th St; N, Q, R to 49th St
Bus: BxM2, M10, M104, M11, M12, M20, M31, M34A-SBS, M42, M50, M57, M7, SIM22, SIM25, SIM26, SIM30, SIM8, SIM8X
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Stephen T. Mather Building Arts and Craftsmanship High School is a multiple pathways school founded in partnership with the National Park Service. At Mather, students can prepare for college with our many advanced placement courses and project-based learning and/or learn a skilled trade such as carpentry, masonry, landscape management, and decorative finishing as part of our historic preservation CTE program. Our school is a safe, caring environment that supports the social emotional needs of our students through our advisory program, restorative practices, and dedication to our core values. We offer many extracurricular activities such as work-based learning trips, clubs, and PSAL sports. Mather High School strives to provide a supportive and sustaining educational community that is diverse, inclusive, and equitable. We use data to consistently identify the institutional barriers, including racism and bias, that contribute to disparate educational outcomes within our school community and system at large. This work is continuous, requiring reflection and commitment to secure the best outcomes for all students. We work towards sustaining a community where collaboration is the norm, student voice is uplifted, and all community stakeholders work together to build stronger relationships and instructional practices to ensure equity, access, and positive outcomes for all students.
Academic Highlights: Advisory, Historic Preservation Courses in Carpentry, Landscape Mngmt, Decorative Finishing, CTE program(s): Building Arts, AP Courses Available, Virtual Enterprise
Other Features: Career and Technical Education (CTE), College Trips, Community Service Expected, Health Center, Internships Available, Online Grading System, Orientation, Program(s) with 1 GE Applicant Per Seat, Program(s) with 1 SWD Applicant Per Seat, Saturday Programs, Student Parent Orientation, Summer Bridge, Summer Internships, Summer Orientation, Summer Session, Weekend Programs
School Features:
Offers 10th Grade Seats
School whose primary location is co-located with another school
AP Courses, Languages & Sports
Programs
Architecture
This is a hands-on/minds-on nine-credit CTE sequence in Historic Preservation: Intro to Historic Preservation (9); Landscape Mgmt. I & II, (10); Building Arts-Decorative Finishing and Carpentry (11); Adv. Building Arts-Carpentry/Masonry (12). Students must participate in apx. Fourteen work-based learning trips, complete an internship and a final CTE performance assessment. Students will work with wood, bricks, stone, and plants, often OUTSIDE in ALL types of weather, and they WILL occasionally get dirty!
- (Group 1) Priority to Manhattan students or residents
- (Group 2) Then to New York City residents
Student & Admissions Statistics
Total Offers
GE Applicants / Seats:
SWD Applicants / Seats:
Survey Summary & Data (2022-23)
Note: Yellow bars indicate city-wide averages for the associated category
Academic Summary & Data (2022-23)
4-Year College 23.90%
Unknown 61.90%
School Demographics (2022-23)
Female 47.00%
Other 0.30%
Black 29.10%
Hispanic 63.60%
White 3.50%
Other 1.10%
Hispanic 14.30%
White 54.30%
Other 11.40%
This data was gathered from the NYC DOE's demographic snapshots: https://infohub.nyced.org/reports/students-and-schools/school-quality/information-and-data-overview