Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy

The Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy, also known as MTA or TMSTA , is a Modern Orthodox Judaism Jewish day school (or yeshiva), the boys' high school of Yeshiva University (YU) in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 288 students and 38.1 faculty members (on an FTE basis), resulting in a student-teacher ratio of 7.6. The Talmudical Academy (TA), as it was originally called, was founded in 1916 by Rabbi Bernard Revel. He had become president of the institution that was to become Yeshiva University a year earlier, in 1915, when the "Rabbinical College of America" (a short-lived name) had been formed from the merger of two older schools, an elementary school founded in 1886 and a rabbinical seminary founded in 1896. As the elementary school soon ceased to exist, the high school is thus one of the oldest components of the University. TA was the first Jewish high school in America,... full article at wikipedia