New York City has a convoluted process for high school admissions – all public school students must apply to high school, and are supposed to rank 12 choices. Read more:
“No changes will be made to the grading scale for applying to screened high school programs for this fall. The deadline to apply to high school remains Friday, March 11,” the Department of Education said in a statement Wednesday., Schools Chancellor David Banks said parents have told him not to change the high school admissions process “at the eleventh hour. We can't afford to make changes again. It'll just throw the system into chaos. And I agree with that.
However, there have been changes to the application process for some of the city’s selective public schools. Due to the pandemic, officials said those schools could not use attendance or test scores as criteria — instead, they could use grades; the highest from the students’ seventh- or eighth-grade years. The plan was to assign students to four groups based on their grades, and then they would be entered into a lottery.
Banks had said earlier this week that he had heard the concerns from parents and was trying to respond. "I'm not committed to keeping that as the standard going forward. We will take a look at that,” he told NY1. “And so over the next several months for the rest of the school year, I'm convening a host of stakeholders who are going to help me in this process of figuring out what is the really the best path forward – I don't want any parents to walk away angry."
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