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Automate The Schools (ATS) is the school-based administrative system used by New York City public schools since 1988. It has many functions, including recording biographical data for all students, handling admissions, discharges, and transfers to other schools, and recording other student-specific data, such as exam scores, grade levels, attendance, and immunization records.
The Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) is an examination administered to eighth and ninth-grade students residing in New York City and used to determine admission to eight of the city's nine Specialized High Schools. An average of 25,000 students take the test to apply to these schools, and around 5,000 are accepted. [1]
In October 2018, 1,126,501 students attended New York City public schools, [43] excluding 119,551 students enrolled in charter schools. [44] About 40% of students in the city's public school system live in households where a language other than English is spoken; one-third of all New Yorkers were born in another country.
The Specialized High Schools Admissions Test is the sole criterion for admission to eight of the city’s nine specialized high schools, which enroll more than 16,000 kids, per New York State law.
This results in approximately 2,500– or less than 4%— of New York City's 65,000 fifth graders being eligible to take the test. From those, around 182 to 185 students are offered admission, representing "the top one-quarter of 1% of students in New York City, based on test scores." [1]
Public, transfer East New York Arts and Civics High School K953 Public East New York Family Academy: K409 Public EBC High School for Public Service–Bushwick K545 Public EMBER Charter School for Mindful Education, Innovation and Transformation K406 Public charter Edward R. Murrow High School: K525
The city has dozens of other private colleges and universities, including many religious and special-purpose institutions, such as St. Francis College, The Juilliard School and The School of Visual Arts. New York City's public school system, operated by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest in the world. More than 1.1 ...
In 2008, U.S. News & World Report ranked American Studies as the 29th best public high school in the country and 2nd in New York State. In 2009, the school rose to be the 19th best public high school in the country. In 2014, HSAS was ranked #1 in New York State.