nyc middle school admissions season fall 2022
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By Joyce Szuflita
Here are the dates:
Applications will open on Oct. 26
Application deadline will be Dec. 1
Placements will come back in April.
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If you need a MY SCHOOLS account, contact your local Family Welcome Center in early Oct. for your activation code.
Here is what is going on.
Some academic screens will be adopted at some middle schools. In those programs, students will be ranked based on a composite of their course grades from fourth grade. Decisions about which school will allowed to screen will be made at the District level between the Superintendents, CEC’s and the schools. There will be a limited number of those programs and announcements about which programs will be screened will be announced when applications open in late Oct. Schools that had audition programs last year will remain the same.
I list the schools that exist in Districts 13, 14, 15 and 17 here. When we know which schools have screened programs, I will also indicate that. It is very, very unlikely that the successful Diversity Initiative in D15 will be changed - meaning, there will likely not be any screened schools in D15.
Sibling and multiple priority remains unchanged.
If you want your twins to get the sibling priority you must rank their applications the same. The applications will be linked.
Families with more than one middle school applicant connected to their MySchools account only need to submit one set of application choices if they want these children to attend the same program. Before a family submits that application, MySchools offers the option to add the same application choices to the other child’s (or children’s) application(s).
If a family includes an audition, language: criteria, or screened program on their children's identical applications, and only one child is accepted to that program, then the children may receive separate offers.
Middle school applicants have a priority to attend the same school as their sibling, as follows:
At schools where the final year is eighth grade,
Middle school applicants with siblings currently in sixth or seventh grade have priority to attend their sibling’s school.
If the school has younger grades (for example, grades K-8), middle school applicants with siblings currently in kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, or fifth, sixth, or seventh grade have priority to attend their sibling’s school.
At schools that continue through twelfth grade, middle school applicants with siblings currently in sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, or eleventh grade have priority to attend their sibling’s school
During the application period, be sure to list your sibling's school on your application if you want to attend it! However, you do not have to list it first.
Applicants will keep the same priority to attend their sibling’s school whether you list it first or last on their application.
The best strategy for all families stays the same: list programs on your child's application in your true order of preference. For instance, if you listed your child's sibling’s school second and the applicant does not get into their first-choice school, they will still have a priority to attend their sibling’s school.
Please note that middle school programs admitting students through the audition, language: criteria, or screened admissions methods do not have a sibling priority, as those programs have distinct criteria for admission.
