Just 45 Middle Schools Gave Specialized High Schools 60 Percent of Their Students

The process of getting into an elite high school in New York City is decided way before you have to take an admissions test. Students who excel in the Specialized High School Admissions Test tend to be from just a handful of specialty middle schools, according to a comprehensive data set released this week by the Center for New York City Affairs.

Just 45 schools (out of 536 public middle schools) delivered a whopping 60 percent of students to specialized high schools in 2014-15, according to the data. At the end of the graphic, we see the 124 middle schools with no students who received a high performance in the Specialized High School Admissions Test. These schools altogether sent just nine kids to a specialized high school, the Center said.

The Anderson School and Special Music School on the Upper West Side, TAG Young Scholars in East Harlem, NEST+M in the East Village, NYC Lab Middle School in Chelsea, East Side Middle School on the Upper East Side and Booker T. Washington on the Upper West Side were all included in the top 10 high performing middle schools.

The data also show each middle school's make-up in terms of race.

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