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As of 2007, there are nine specialized high schools in New York City. Eight of those schools base admission on the score attained on the competitive Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT). The exception is Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where acceptance is by audition and a review of academic ...
The New York City Board of Education shuttered the school in June 1982 for performance issues and converted the building into a four-year high school, the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics, [4] and a grade 6-8 middle school, the Isaac Newton Middle School for Math and Science, effective September 1982.
The Bronx High School of Science was founded in 1938 as a specialized science and math high school for boys, by resolution of the Board of Education of the City of New York, with Morris Meister as the first principal of the school. They were given use of an antiquated Gothic-gargoyled edifice located at Creston Avenue and 184th Street.
The Specialized High Schools Admission Test is the only entrance criteria used for top schools like Bronx High School of Science; Stuyvesant; Brooklyn Tech and others, but if the city’s Panel ...
A contract for the company that administers the test to get into New York City’s elite specialized high schools is expected to be approved during a much-delayed and crucial vote Wednesday, The ...
Admission is based solely on how the student does on the SHSAT. The New York City Department of Education created the New York Specialized High School Institute (SHSI), a free program run by the department for middle school students with high test scores on citywide tests and solid report card grades.
Humanities and the Arts Magnet High School – Q498; Mathematics, Science Research and Technology Magnet High School – Q492; Institute for Health Professions at Cambria Heights – Q243; Benjamin Franklin High School for Finance & Information Technology - Q313; Business, Computer Applications & Entrepreneurship High School (closed 2016)
Removing transportation options from magnet, traditional schools creates a barrier which only serves to widen the equity and achievement gaps in JCPS JCPS busing update makes magnet school options ...