By Audrey and Abigail
The Ant and the Grasshopper is one of Aesop’s most familiar fables, and it comes to mind often as the high school admissions cycle ramps up. The ant diligently collects food throughout the summer, while the grasshopper plays and mocks the ant for working too hard. Come winter the consequences of each choice become clear.
Read MoreIn recent public school admissions cycles, parents were able to view their child’s random number in their MySchools account on the day applications opened. The DOE has now changed this policy.
Read MoreBy Joyce Szuflita
First, patience is a virtue.
High School offers come out on Thursday, March 6.
Middle School offers come out on Wednesday, April 9.
View the DoE’s tutorial about getting your offer and info about the waitlists.
Generally offers are released after school through your MYSCHOOLS account, but roll out is often very haphazard.
Read MoreFirst a few basics:
Elementary schools sometimes have the same number in different boroughs. When you do a google search, look for the “PS ‘XO’, Brooklyn” or “Queens” or “Manhattan” when searching for a specific program.
By Joyce Szuflita
Read this great article from Chalkbeat that lays out the problem and presents what I feel is a realistic and pragmatic approach (in this moment) to screening students (or not) for middle school and high school. It is reporting on the Fordham Law School Feerick Center for Social Justice report.
By Joyce Szuflita
Here is what you need to know about placement:
You will be ranking up to 12 choices on your MY SCHOOLS application through March 16, 2020. Don’t wait until the last min., the website often gets glitchy. Take screen shots of any trouble you have and of your final list, just in case you have difficulty. You can always fix it at the Family Welcome Center if you tell them of your troubles in a timely way.
The biggest misunderstanding about prek is that you will be attending at your zoned school. There are about 75,000 kids on a grade in NYC. There are around 30,000 prek seats in public schools. Those seats, depending on the neighborhood, will go first to siblings of zoned students and then occasionally to some zoned students. The other 40,000 seats will be in a variety of places; NYCEEC’s, Prek Centers, a few Un-zoned schools and a few Charter Schools.
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