Manhattan School for Children (MSC) Middle School Class of 2016 —High School Placements Note: In New York City, students in 8th Grade have three possible pathways for admissions to public high schools, and they may apply to schools in one, two or three of the categories described here: (1) The primary “Academic (screened or unscreened)” high schools (each of which has its own criteria for selection, in additions to grades, state test scores and attendance records); Through a DOE-matching algorithm, every student can only be accepted to only ONE school in this category, even if they apply to up to a dozen schools in this category. (2) The 9 so-called “Specialized High Schools” (for which the sole admissions criteria is the student’s score on the citywide SHSAT entrance exam that is offered in Fall of 8th Grade (Approximately 30,000 NYC students take the SHSAT exam each year, and roughly 8,000 of those students gain admission to one of the Specialized High Schools on their ranked list; once all of the 9th Grade seats in this Specialized High Schools have been filled, no more students can be admitted, no matter what SHSAT score they got.. (3) The “Performing Arts” schools (which require auditions or the submission of an arts-based portfolio in addition to grades, state test scores and attendance records; Again, students can only be accepted to ONE Performing Arts school, even if they apply to several. In this list of MSC’s Class of 2016 graduates, the appearance of multiple schools on any one line indicates that that MSC student was accepted to more than one high school (he/she ultimately chose which one to attend). Some students also applied to a private or parochial schools. Urban Assembly NY Harbor School School of the Future (SOF) High School AND Cushing Academy Beacon High School LaGuardia High School of the Arts (Audition-based; accepted for Drama and Instrumental Music) AND Beacon High School NEST+M (New Explorations into Science, Technology, and Math) High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Manhattan Hunter Science High School Beacon High School Brooklyn Tech (Specialized) Manhattan Center for Science and Math Young Women’s Leadership School NYCiSchool Humanities Preparatory Academy AND N.J. Public School High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Frank McCourt High School Central Park East High School Academy for Software Engineering Baruch College Campus High School Millennium High School High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Beacon High School Beacon High School AND The Masters School (Private) High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Millennium High School High School for Environmental Studies AND High School in Israel (turn page) 1 Beacon High School AND Cathedral High School Herbert H. Leman High School Brooklyn Latin (Specialized) AND Frank McCourt High School High School for Arts and Tech High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Beacon High School Talent Unlimited (Audition-based) Special Music School (Audition-based) Special Music School (Audition-based) Heschel School (private) Central Park East High School Clinton School for Writers and Artists Urban Assembly — New York Harbor School Frank McCourt High School Beekman School (Private) High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Frank McCourt High School Central Park East High School High School for Environmental Studies AND Private School High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Millennium High School Frank McCourt High School Professional Performing Arts HS (Audition-based) Frank McCourt High School High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) AND Beacon High School Beacon High School Urban Assembly NY Harbor School AND Upstate NY High School Manhattan Village Academy Bard High School Early College Queens International High School At Union Square Hudson High School of Learning Technologies AND Lehman Manhattan Preparatory School Frank McCourt High School High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry Life Sciences Secondary School High School for American Studies at Lehman College (Specialized) Harvest Collegiate High School Frank McCourt High School High School for Math, Science, and Engineering (HSMSE) at City College (Specialized) (end) 2 .