![]() Just seven Black students were admitted to Stuyvesant based on the admissions exam - and that number was higher than three other specialized high schools.īlack and Latino students make up about 66% of students citywide. That’s about the same as the previous year and the year before that. Once again, few Black and Latino students were admitted to New York City’s eight prestigious specialized high schools, which accept students based solely on a single admissions test.īlack and Latino students made up nearly 10% of offers for next year’s class, according to education department data released Thursday. Here’s a snapshot of what offers looked like for different grades. Still, she believed this year’s changes centralizing admissions for high school, in particular, made the process more transparent, and she’s hopeful the city will continue to ditch standardized test scores and attendance in screening applicants. “If we really want to create and foster diverse schools there’s a lot more to be done than tinkering here and there,” Berg said. ![]() Neither Mayor Eric Adams nor Chancellor David Banks has made integration a top priority. Though integration advocates had long been pushing for such changes, it only happened by necessity because attendance could no longer be held against students, and standardized tests were not administered as they typically were. “We have made a lot of progress over the past two years.”Īs the pandemic forced many schools to drop or shift their admissions criteria, some schools have become more diverse. ![]() ![]() “That’s not necessarily a bad thing,” said Nyah Berg, of the integration advocacy nonprofit New York Appleseed, who previously expressed concerns that changes to this year’s admissions cycle could lead to less diverse schools. ![]()
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