The school's former Principal, Carmen Fariña, claimed that the acceptance rate for out of district students was 1/7, lower than that of many top-tier Universities.

6 was founded in 1894 and named after the feminist author and reformer Lillie Devereaux Blake.

Students are expected to write plays, poetry, essays and short fiction by the time they graduate.

Its location, two blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, allows the students particularly good access to view the works of famous artists.

6 was also the recipient of a grant from the Annenberg Foundation to help fund art projects in the school.