Currently, New York City has nine Specialized High Schools. All New York City residents are eligible to apply to these schools, which are listed below:
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (Manhattan)
Bronx High School of Science (Bronx)
The Brooklyn Latin School (Brooklyn)
Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn)
High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at City College (Manhattan)
High School of American Studies at Lehman College (Bronx)
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College (Queens)
Staten Island Technical High School (Staten Island)
Stuyvesant High School (Manhattan)
Each school will be featured in an upcoming blog entry.
For eight of the Specialized High Schools (all except LaGuardia), admission is based on a student's score on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). This competitive test is administed in October of your eighth grade year. With proper preparation, any of you could achieve a high enough score on this exam to go to a Specialized High School.
When you take the exam, you rank the eight Specialized High School in order, #1 being the school you most want to attend, and #8 being the school you are least excited about. Keep in mind, all eight schools are great schools. However, you can choose only to rank three schools, if you'd prefer to stay in Manhattan for High School.
The SHSAT has a verbal and a math section. These are sort of like the state ELA and Math tests, but a little different too.
The verbal section has reading passages with multiple choice questions, just like the ELA. There are five passages with 6 questions about each. It also has five scrambled passages and 10 logiccal reasoning questions. There are 45 questions in total, and you have 75 minutes to complete this section of the exam.
The math section is made up of 50 multiple choice questions. Some are straightforward, while others are more comlicated word problems. You also have 75 minutes to complete this section of the exam.
If you think you might want to go to a Specialized High School, you should tell Ms. Jones. It's not too early to start preparing for this test today!
LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts (Manhattan)
Bronx High School of Science (Bronx)
The Brooklyn Latin School (Brooklyn)
Brooklyn Technical High School (Brooklyn)
High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at City College (Manhattan)
High School of American Studies at Lehman College (Bronx)
Queens High School for the Sciences at York College (Queens)
Staten Island Technical High School (Staten Island)
Stuyvesant High School (Manhattan)
Each school will be featured in an upcoming blog entry.
For eight of the Specialized High Schools (all except LaGuardia), admission is based on a student's score on the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT). This competitive test is administed in October of your eighth grade year. With proper preparation, any of you could achieve a high enough score on this exam to go to a Specialized High School.
When you take the exam, you rank the eight Specialized High School in order, #1 being the school you most want to attend, and #8 being the school you are least excited about. Keep in mind, all eight schools are great schools. However, you can choose only to rank three schools, if you'd prefer to stay in Manhattan for High School.
The SHSAT has a verbal and a math section. These are sort of like the state ELA and Math tests, but a little different too.
The verbal section has reading passages with multiple choice questions, just like the ELA. There are five passages with 6 questions about each. It also has five scrambled passages and 10 logiccal reasoning questions. There are 45 questions in total, and you have 75 minutes to complete this section of the exam.
The math section is made up of 50 multiple choice questions. Some are straightforward, while others are more comlicated word problems. You also have 75 minutes to complete this section of the exam.
If you think you might want to go to a Specialized High School, you should tell Ms. Jones. It's not too early to start preparing for this test today!
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