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A.4 Specialized High Schools Admissions Offers to Eighth-Graders for Fall 2009 Freshman Class,<br />

Based on 2008 SHSAT Results<br />

American<br />

Indian or<br />

Alaska<br />

Native Unknown * TOTAL<br />

Specialized High School<br />

Black or<br />

African<br />

American<br />

Hispanic or<br />

Latino<br />

Asian or<br />

Pacific<br />

Isl<strong>and</strong>er White<br />

Bronx High School of Science 26 (2.5%) 72 (6.9%) 516 (49.3%) 239 (22.8%) 1 (0.1%) 192 (18.4%) 1,046<br />

Brooklyn Latin 69 (13.4%) 81 (15.7%) 134 (26.0%) 116 (22.5%) 1 (0.2%) 114 (22.1%) 515<br />

Brooklyn Technical High 175 (9.4%) 151 (8.1%) 849 (45.6%) 431 (23.2%) 3 (0.2%) 251 (13.5%) 1,860<br />

School<br />

18 (10.3%) 28 (16.0%) 38 (21.7%) 45 (25.7%) 0 (0%) 46 (26.3%) 175<br />

High School for Mathematics,<br />

Science <strong>and</strong> Engineering at<br />

City College<br />

High School of American 11 (6.3%) 24 (13.8%) 20 (11.5%) 80 (46.0%) 0 (0%) 39 (22.4%) 174<br />

Studies at Lehman College<br />

Queens High School for the 21 (12.8%) 15 (9.1%) 91 (55.5%) 13 (7.9%) 1 (0.6%) 23 (14.0%) 164<br />

Sciences at York College<br />

Staten Isl<strong>and</strong> Technical High 2 (0.6%) 15 (4.5%) 77 (23.2%) 155 (46.7%) 0 (0%) 83 (25.0%) 332<br />

School<br />

Stuyvesant High School 12 (1.2%) 24 (2.4%) 594 (60.6%) 183 (18.7%) 2 (0.2%) 165 (16.8%) 980<br />

TOTAL OFFERS 334 (6.4%) 410 (7.8%) 2,319 (44.2%) 1,262 (24.1%) 8 (0.1%) 913 (17.4%) 5,246<br />

TOTAL TEST-TAKERS 5,849 (21.2%) 5,168 (18.7%) 6,403 (23.2%) 3,421 (12.4%) 65 (0.2%) 6,748 (24.4%) 27,654<br />

ACCEPTANCE RATE<br />

(percentage of test-takers who<br />

received offers)<br />

5.7% 7.9% 36.2% 36.9% 12.3% 13.5% 19.0%<br />

* NYCDOE categorizes as “unknown” the racial background of private/parochial school students, multi-racial students, <strong>and</strong> public<br />

school students whose parents did not sign ethnic identification forms.<br />

Source: New York City Department of Education data as reported in Sharon Otterman, New York’s Top Public High Schools Admit<br />

Fewer Blacks <strong>and</strong> 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-<strong>and</strong>-hispanics/.

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