The city will make significant changes to the middle and high school admission processes due to the coronavirus pandemic — eliminating the use of academic criteria to determine admissions to middle schools this year, but allowing it to continue at high schools, NY1 has learned.
The controversial Specialized High School Admission Test, the sole criteria for admission to the city’s most prestigious public schools including Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech and Bronx Science, will remain in place and will be given in person in January.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza will announce the new admissions guidelines Friday — information anxious fifth- and eighth-graders around the city have been awaiting for months.
Here’s a rundown of how admissions will work this year.
MIDDLE SCHOOLS
Middle schools will not use academic screens as part of their admission process this school year. However, middle schools will still be able to give priority for admission to students who live within the school’s community school district.
If a school has more applications than seats, students would be chosen via a lottery.
Students will be able to apply to middle school beginning the week of January 11; a deadline will be set for some time during the week of February 8.
HIGH SCHOOLS
Academic screens will remain in place for high school admissions. However, those screens typically use tests scores and grades a student earned in the last school year, and public schools did not give grades last school year, nor were state exams taken. Schools will instead be able to use test scores and grades from the year prior — so, a student’s sixth grade year, as opposed to their seventh.
Schools will now be required to post online the exact rubric they use for ranking students; and that ranking will be done by the Education Department’s central office, not the school.
In a significant shift, the city will eliminate the use of district geographic priorities for high school students, a process that had come under fire in Manhattan’s District 2.
The city eliminated “zoned” high schools under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, allowing students to apply for high schools across the city. But some schools still gave preference to students who live within the same district where the school is located, giving those students a tremendous edge for admission. That means students who live elsewhere are often shut out of these schools — some of the highest performing, and often least diverse, in the city.
All other geographic priorities — some schools have priority admissions for students from the same borough, for example — will be scrapped in the next school year.
High school applications will open the week of January 18; the deadline for applications will be set for a day during the week of February 22.
ARTS SCHOOLS
Schools that require students to audition will this year use a virtual audition process.
SPECIALIZED HIGH SCHOOLS
The Specialized High School Admission Test will remain in place. While some proponents of the test feared the mayor would use the pandemic as a reason to scrap it, and some critics of it hoped he’d do the same, the test is required under a state law.
The exam will be given in person, but this year, instead of at designated sites around the city, it will be given to students at their own school to minimize their exposure to other children. Registration for the exam will open on December 21; it will close on January 15. The exam will be administered beginning on January 27.
THE FALL-OUT
The changes are sure to spark criticism, potentially from all corners. In recent years advocates for better integrating the city’s schools have called on the mayor and chancellor to eliminate academic screens all together, at middle and high schools. This plans eliminates them for only this year at middle schools, and leaves them intact at high schools.
Meanwhile, many parents in District 2 have strongly supported the geographic preference rules for admissions there, which helps boost their children’s chances of attending in-demand schools like Eleanor Roosevelt High School or the New York City Lab School.
Removing screens from middle schools may also prove controversial. Proposals to remove screens in an effort to increase diversity at schools in some districts in the city have previously been met with harsh pushback from parents who accuse the city of watering down standards.
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