I usually don’t share out info unless it’s concrete but this could impact lots of families and it seems as if something will be changing in the near future.
Certain groups of students get priority in admissions in the high school process. Continuing middle schoolers if they choose to remain at the same school and there are some borough priorities in place as well. During Covid geographic and district priorities were removed. Now it seems some new borough priorities might be added.
From Chalkbeat:
New York City education officials are weighing a plan to give students from Manhattan admissions priority at several of the borough’s most competitive high schools, according to four people familiar with the plan.
The list and number of schools that would offer the admissions bump is not finalized, but the campuses under consideration include Millennium High School, Beacon High School, Bard Early College High School, and Eleanor Roosevelt High School, according to one of the sources. Baruch College Campus High School, NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies, and Clinton High School could also offer the geographic priority, the person said.
For context, pre Covid Millennium’s priority group was south of Manhattan. Beacon, Bard, and Clinton were open to all NYC students. Eleanor Roosevelt, Baruch, and Lab gave priority to District 2 students.