Which High Schools Did High-Scoring Middle School Students Attend Last Year? In March, thousands of New York City 8th graders received offer letters from the city’s public high schools. Many of the city’s highest-scoring students will likely attend one of the city’s nine specialized high schools. But many high-scorers—including some offered admission to a specialized high school—will attend other schools.
Last year’s 4,800 high-scoring middle school students attended 233 different high schools when they entered 9th grade. These high-scoring students notched a level 4, meaning they exceeded grade standards on their 7th grade New York State English Language Arts and math tests. We have identified the high schools most frequently chosen by last year’s high-scorers and highlighted the five schools most commonly attended by the students’ ethnic group. A total of 12 schools made the list.
High-Scoring His anic Students Attended the i e High Schools Most re uentl Attended High-Scoring Middle School Students Within ach thnic Largest u er o Di erent High Schools rou - Asian White Asian White Hispanic Black Hispanic Black Brooklyn Technical High School 1, 21 81 113 9 170 Stuyvesant High School 823 Bronx High School of Science 7 3 Staten Island Technical High School 2 8 Townsend Harris High School 807 Fiorello H. Laguardia High School 33 New York City Independent Budget Office f Music And Performing Arts Tottenville High School 948 er ercent o High-Scoring 943 Asian Students Attended i e Forest Hills High School High Schools Midwood High School 1,140 Percent of Students in Five Schools Beacon High School 390 70 Brooklyn College Academy 1 2 0 Success Academy 10 Charter School Harlem 3 0 0 100 200 300 400 00 00 700 800 Number of Students 40 N TE Figures in parenthesis next to each bar shows school’s total 9th grade enrollment. 30 New York City Independent Budget Office
20 • Five of the 12 high schools enrolling the greatest number of high-scoring students were specialized high schools. The 10 other schools most frequently attended by high-scoring students were Townsend Harris High School, Tottenville High School, Midwood High School, Forest Hills High School, Beacon High School, Brooklyn College Academy, and Success 0 Asian White Hispanic Black Academy Charter School Harlem 3. • Success Academy Harlem 3 was the only charter school to make the list, one of the five high schools most often New York City Independent Budget Office attended by black students.
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