(Schools use these transcripts for purposes of NYC
middle or high school admissions.)
Parents can request a portfolio review, for promotion purposes or
middle or high school admissions, in lieu of testing.
Not exact matches
Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public
school of choice that over represents white
middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of
admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families
or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have
higher odds of selection.
Under one scenario, families moving into a new home would not know for sure which elementary,
middle or high schools their children would attend because
admissions would be based on a form of lottery.
It is telling that, of the hundreds of students who have graduated from Success Academy elementary - and
middle -
school charter programs in New York City, none gained
admission in 2014
or 2015 to the city's highly competitive specialized public
high schools, and only six (out of 54 who took the
admissions test) were admitted in 2016.
Many
schools require an entrance exam; most
middle and
high schools require the ISEE (Independent
School Entrance Exam)
or the SSAT (Secondary
School Admissions Test).