16 year old student jumps to his death from the 5th floor of Jesuit, Catholic, Regis high school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
A 16-year-old boy has died after jumping from a fifth-floor window at Regis High School, a private Catholic school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
The incident occurred Thursday morning around 9:30 a.m., just as the student was waiting to meet with an administrator regarding a disciplinary matter.
According to police and sources, the student had been outside an office on the first floor when he then walked up to the fifth floor, where he jumped, according to the sources. He was found outside the building with injuries consistent with a fall from a significant height and was rushed to Weill Cornell Medical Center.
What went wrong at elite private UES high school?
Initially, the boy was listed in stable condition, only for the teen’s condition to rapidly deteriorate. The teen whose identity had yet to be released was pronounced dead around 11:45 a.m the nypost reported.
Regis High School located at 55 East 84th st, is a prestigious, tuition-free all-boys’ school known for its rigorous academics and strong Jesuit values. The episode has since rocked the school community and raised concerns about student mental health and the pressures faced by teens to excel.
Virginia Maloney, the New York City councilmember–elect for the district that Regis is in, called what happened ‘every parent’s worst fear.’
Posted Maloney on X: ‘Our kids are carrying more than we often realize, and schools need more mental health resources: counselors with capacity, safe spaces, and systems that catch kids before they fall through the cracks.’
School authorities to date declined to say why the boy had come to see the headmaster and to what degree trepidation over that meeting preceded him jumping to his death.
Regis High School is ‘tuition free and merit based, giving special consideration to families in need of financial assistance,’ according to its website.
Its 540 students from grades 9 through 12 commute from 219 zip codes across the city, and 52 percent of the students are sons of immigrants.
Three Jesuit priests and 56 lay men and women are on the faculty.
Authorities continue to investigate.
