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A.2 Specialized High Schools Admissions Offers to Eighth-Graders for
Fall 2011 Freshman Class, Based on 2010 SHSAT Results
Black or
African
American
Asian or
Pacific
Islander
American
Indian or
Alaska
Native Unknown * TOTAL
Hispanic or
Specialized High School
Latino
White
Bronx High School of Science 26 (2.5%) 53 (5.1%) 565 (54.1%) 194 (18.6%) 1 (0.1%) 205 (19.6%) 1,044
Brooklyn Latin 81 (14.2%) 67 (11.7%) 186 (32.5%) 122 (21.3%) 1 (0.2%) 115 (20.1%) 572
Brooklyn Technical High School 141 (7.2%) 151 (7.7%) 902 (46.2%) 471 (24.1%) 5 (0.3%) 281 (14.4%) 1,951
High School for Mathematics,
Science and Engineering at City
College
14 (6.1%) 31 (13.6%) 73 (32.0%) 49 (21.5%) 0 (0%) 61 (26.7%) 228
High School of American 6 (3.4%) 16 (9.0%) 19 (10.7%) 83 (46.9%) 1 (0.6%) 52 (29.4%) 177
Studies at Lehman College
Queens High School for the 11 (7.7%) 7 (4.9%) 92 (64.3%) 11 (7.7%) 0 (0%) 22 (15.4%) 143
Sciences at York College
Staten Island Technical High 2 (0.6%) 11 (3.1%) 108 (30.7%) 150 (42.6%) 2 (0.6%) 79 (22.4%) 352
School
Stuyvesant High School 12 (1.3%) 13 (1.4%) 569 (60.7%) 179 (19.1%) 0 (0%) 164 (17.5%) 937
TOTAL OFFERS 293 (5.4%) 349 (6.5%) 2,514 (46.5%) 1,259 (23.3%) 10 (0.2%) 979 (18.1%) 5,404
TOTAL TEST-TAKERS 6,522 (23.1%) 6,077 (21.5%) 7,265 (25.7%) 4,261 (15.1%) 80 (0.3%) 4,076 (14.4%) 28,281
ACCEPTANCE RATE
(percentage of test-takers who
received offers)
4.5% 5.7% 34.6% 29.5% 12.5% 24.0% 19.1%
* NYCDOE categorizes as “unknown” the racial background of private/parochial school students, multi-racial students, and public
school students whose parents did not sign ethnic identification forms.
Source: New York City Department of Education data as reported in Sharon Otterman, New York’s Top Public High Schools Admit
Fewer Blacks and Hispanics, N.Y. Times, City Room, Feb. 11, 2011, available at http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/toppublic-high-schools-admit-fewer-blacks-and-hispanics/.