Ok, as I understand it whites make up 24% of this school’s student population. I assume “whites” includes Jews, a great many of whom live in NYC and who at least used to set great store by education, much as the Asians do today. So I must ask that given whites are outnumbered 3:1, has there been a major cultural shift among Jews in NYC of late?
I think you will find that whites with children for decades have been moving out of areas of NYC that you can reasonably get to Stuyvesant from. The reasons are the cost of living in the city and other lifestyle considerations. On the other hand, there are still a lot of first generation immigrant Asians living in tenement-like conditions who expect their children to work hard on academics.