The beginning of April marks the end of college application season. As seniors reflect on their experiences, one confounding factor prevents their relief: The delay of the Free Application for Federal...

Watch this special report from Classic TV on how students and teachers at Townsend Harris experienced the 2024 solar eclipse. Music: "Heaven and Hell" by Jeremy Blake, used with free use license from...

Members of the Townsend Harris High School Green Team joined the TREEage organization for a “Youth Day of Action” in Albany. Last Wednesday, students met with various legislators, governors, and activists...

In preparation for 2024-2025 college applications, juniors were given the annual opportunity to sit for a free SAT during the school day. With standardized-test policies changing over the past couple of...

The editors of The Classic are selling spring Classic apparel to kick off a yearlong fundraising drive to celebrate this publication's fortieth anniversary (the first edition of the newspaper was published...

Last week, the Class of 2027 went on a trip to Cinemart Cinemas, a theater in Forest Hills, New York. Students went down to the auditorium midway through second band, boarded yellow buses, and proceeded...

For the first time, Townsend Harris students competed at the 2024 DECA State Career Conference in Rochester, New York. The THHS DECA club, a chapter of the national association Distributive Education Clubs...

This past January, the Starling Press, the student-run publication house at Townsend Harris High School, published its first set of books by students for purchase on Kindle and Amazon. Student club members...

Last week, the Townsend Harris administration released an updated homework policy that seeks to address inconsistencies in how teachers post online assignments that have arisen due to a drastic increase...

All freshmen at Townsend Harris High School take Writing Process, an additional English course,  meant to train students to write successfully in all THHS courses. This year, all students are taking three...

Students at Townsend Harris High School are looking forward to competing in the upcoming New York Muslim Interscholastic Tournament (MIST) for the 15th year in a row. As MIST approaches, excitement from...

Recently, a new morning entry policy requires all students entering school late to have their Townsend Harris ID scanned into a system. Though the data serves multiple purposes, it compiles data on repeated...