Upper West Side, Manhattan · Fall 2027 entry
The Calhoun School: which admissions test?
Test required, ISEE recommended
Test required, ISEE recommended (grades 5-11)
Test by entering grade
| Grade 5 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
| Grade 6 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
| Grade 7 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
| Grade 8 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
| Grade 9 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
| Grade 10 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
| Grade 11 | Test required, ISEE recommended |
A grade missing from the table has no rule on the school’s page, often because the school does not admit new students into it.
Calhoun requires recent standardized testing for grades 5-12 and recommends the ISEE; its page does not say whether the SSAT is accepted.
“For all applicants to the Middle and Upper Schools (grades 5th-12th), Calhoun requires recent standardized testing and recommends the ISEE assessment”
Application deadline
Not published for fall 2027 entry on the pages we read.
The school
- Grades
- Young 3s-12
- Entry grades named
- Not published
- Address
- 433 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024 (Grades 5-12); 325 West 85th Street (Lower School)
- Line read on
- Tuesday, September 29, 2026
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