Bronx Charter School for Excellence: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
Charter schools · Bronx · DBN 84X255
- 8th graders, 2025
- 73
- Sat the SHSAT
- 50
- Took the test
- 68%
- Offers
- 7
In 2025 admissions, 50 of the 73 eighth graders at Bronx Charter School for Excellence who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 68%, more than half the grade. Across the charter sector the rate was 40%, so this school sits 28 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 15th of 139 in the charter sector on that measure. Its eighth grade is the 43rd largest of 160 in the charter sector, above the median of 48.
7 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 14% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 25,933 testers that year, 15.5%. It ranks 102nd of the 116 middle schools whose 2025 offer count was large enough to be published.
The number of testers went from 74 in 2022 admissions to 50 in 2025, down 24. The sharpest move came between 2022 and 2023, when it fell by 28. Offers went from 8 in 2022 to 7 in 2025. In 2023, the offer count was 5 or fewer and was not published.
In the charter sector, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from Success Academy Charter School - Upper West (34), out of 124 published for the charter sector as a whole. The DOE’s file lists every charter school under district code 84, whatever its borough, so the comparison here is with other charter schools across the city, not with the neighborhood.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 90 | 74 | 82% | 8 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 88 | 46 | 52% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 82 | 49 | 60% | 8 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 73 | 50 | 68% | 7 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| Charter schools, 2025 | 8,641 | 3,254 | 40% | at least 124 | |
| New York City, 2025 | 25,933 | 4,023 |
“2025 admissions” means students who sat the SHSAT as eighth graders in the 2024-25 school year and received offers for fall 2025, as in the DOE’s admissions outcomes report. “8th graders” counts the school’s eighth graders who applied to high school; “took the test” divides testers by that count when both are published. The district row adds the published counts of its schools, so its offers are a floor; the city row is the DOE’s own total. “Not listed” means the school is absent from that year’s file.
Charter schools with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Bronx Charter School for Excellence when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- Success Academy Charter School - Upper West72% of 140 sat the test · 34 offers
- Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School72% of 86 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Charter School for Excellence 369% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 568% of 56 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Success Academy Charter School - Bronx 268% of 28 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Uncommon Kings Charter School NYC65% of 46 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
What to do with these numbers
Your child is in 8th grade now
Registration closes October 30. Test day: November 18.
November 18 is the SHSAT School Day; the weekend sittings are November 14/15 and November 21. Whatever the count at Bronx Charter School for Excellence, the decision to sit the test is yours, and a scored official practice test tells you more about your own child than any school figure.
- How to register for the SHSAT, step by step
- Score an official SHSAT practice test, free
- Book an SHSAT session
Dates read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.
Your child is in 5th grade
Middle school applications: October 14 to December 11.
The middle school you choose now is where the SHSAT years happen. These counts show how many eighth graders sit the test at each school and how many get an offer; they do not say why. Ask the schools on your list how many of their students sit the SHSAT and how they prepare them, and plan the preparation for 6th and 7th grade, not for the October of 8th.
Dates for fall 2027 entry read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.
Figures from Specialized High Schools Admissions Tests Results (school counts) and Specialized High Schools Admissions Overall Summary (city totals), New York City Department of Education, as listed for DBN 84X255. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.