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== Education == Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. College-educated residents comprise 82% of those age 25 and older, while 15% are high school graduates or have some college education, and 3% have less than a high school education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|6}} The percentage of Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/MN_06_11.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721150614/http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/MN_06_11.pdf |archive-date=2013-07-21 |url-status=live|title=Stuyvesant Town/Turtle Bay – MN 06|date=2011|publisher=[[Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy]]|access-date=October 5, 2016}}</ref> Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town, 8% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per [[school year]], less than the citywide average of 20%.<ref name="New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 2016" />{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}}<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|6}} Additionally, 91% of high school students in Murray Hill and Stuyvesant Town graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.<ref name="CHP2018" />{{Rp|6}} ===Schools=== {{multiple image | align = right | direction = horizontal | width = 150 | footer = Decorative doors of P.S. 116 | image1 = PS116 boys door.jpg | alt1 = Boys' door to P.S. 116 | caption1 = | image2 = PS116 girls door.jpg | alt2 = Girls' door to P.S. 116 | caption2 = }} The [[New York City Department of Education]] operates local public schools. [[PS 116 (Manhattan)|P.S. 116, Mary Lindley Murray School]], and P.S. 281, The River School, are the neighborhood elementary schools.<ref name="nyt-2021-12-15">{{cite news |last=Lipson |first=Karin |date=December 15, 2021 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/realestate/murray-hill-nyc.html |title=Murray Hill, Manhattan: Flush With History, Now 'Seeing a Transformation' |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 25, 2023}}</ref><ref>"[http://insideschools.org/index12.php?fs=46 P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray School]." ''Insideschools.org''. Retrieved on January 25, 2009.</ref> The entrances to P.S. 116 on 33rd Street are divided into "Boys'" and "Girls'" doors. Each entrance features decorative carvings of male and female students, respectively, engaged in reading and scientific activities. P.S. 281 opened in 2013 and is located on 35th Street adjacent to the American Copper Buildings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Holland |first=Heather |date=September 9, 2013 |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130909/murray-hill/new-murray-hill-elementary-school-welcomes-first-students/ |title=New Murray Hill Elementary School Welcomes First Students |work=DNAinfo |access-date=March 25, 2023}}</ref> Murray Hill residents are also zoned to I.S. 104, the Simon Baruch School, located in the [[Gramercy Park]] neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolsearch/ |title=School Search |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120095350/http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolSearch/ |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |website=[[New York City Department of Education]] |access-date=January 25, 2009}}</ref> ===Libraries and higher education=== The [[New York Public Library]] (NYPL)'s Kips Bay branch is located at 446 Third Avenue. The two-story branch opened in 1972 and was designed by architect [[Giorgio Cavaglieri]] as a replacement for the St. Gabriel's and Nathan Straus branches, which had been torn down to make way for construction of the [[Queens–Midtown Tunnel]] and [[Kips Bay Towers]], respectively.<ref>{{cite web | title=About the Kips Bay Library | website=The New York Public Library | url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/kips-bay | access-date=March 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 1, 1972 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/01/archives/kips-bay-gets-public-library-after-seeking-it-for-17-years.html |title=Kips Bay Gets Public Library After Seeking It for 17 Years |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 9, 2023}}</ref> The neighborhood is also home to the [[CUNY Graduate Center]], which shares the former [[B. Altman & Company Building]] with [[Oxford University Press]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Collins |first=Glenn |url= https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/regional/052599altman-edu.html |title=Former Department Store Becomes Graduate School |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 25, 1999 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |quote=Next month, one of the more persistently low-profile of New York's academic institutions – the graduate school of the City University – will begin moving into one of the grand relics of the city's department-store golden age, the B. Altman building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue.... Thanks to this migration, the school's space will increase by a third to 580,000 square feet. Its neighbors in the Altman building, which occupy about a third of the space, are the Science, Industry and Business branch of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press.}}</ref> [[Yeshiva University]]'s Beren Campus is located in Murray Hill, which includes buildings for the university's [[Stern College for Women]] and [[Syms School of Business]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yu.edu/sites/default/files/legacy//uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Studies/Stern_College_for_Women/About/Visit/Beren%20Campus%20Map.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331134516/https://www.yu.edu/sites/default/files/legacy//uploadedFiles/Academics/Undergraduate_Studies/Stern_College_for_Women/About/Visit/Beren%20Campus%20Map.pdf |archive-date=2023-03-31 |url-status=live |title=Beren Campus Map |website=[[Yeshiva University]] |access-date=March 31, 2023}}</ref>
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