Curtis offers a robotics team, National Honor Society, chess club, Key Club, black and Hispanic awareness clubs, film club, Moot Court, the Curtis Players, jazz band, orchestra, dance, symphonic band, the
Curtis Log (newspaper),
Crosswinds (yearbook), math team, criminal law and justice mentoring program, peer mediation and conflict resolution programs.
Sports Curtis fields over thirty varsity teams, including a
swimming team, as well as
golf,
bowling,
volleyball,
soccer,
basketball,
wrestling baseball/
softball,
tennis,
track/
cross country,
gymnastics,
lacrosse and
football teams. In addition, Curtis club teams include boys' varsity and junior varsity, and girls' varsity
Ultimate teams. The Curtis High School Track was named after
Abel Kiviat and the Baseball Field was renamed
Bobby Thomson Field in 2007
Enrollment Curtis has a total enrollment of about 3,006 and is open to residents of New York City entering either ninth or tenth grade. Enrollment requirements vary depending on which of the ten "houses" the student is going to be enrolled. There are zoned programs where enrollment is based mostly on geography, with Staten Island residents having priority over all other boroughs. Within Staten Island, geographical areas closer to the school have priority over all other areas of Staten Island. Most other programs rely either on the prospective student's grades and city standardized tests or specialized enrollment tests. The school's population is 38% African American, 31% Hispanic, 22.9% White and 7.5% Asian.
Feeder patterns and admissions All New York City students entering high school must apply to schools, as there are no zoning boundaries for high schools in New York City. Only special zoned programs have geographical restrictions whereby certain areas of Staten Island have priority over all of the rest of New York City. ==Notable alumni==