Brooklyn Lab Charter School: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2023
Charter schools · Brooklyn · DBN 84K803
- 8th graders, 2023
- 25
- Sat the SHSAT
- 14
- Took the test
- 56%
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
Brooklyn Lab Charter School does not appear in the DOE's 2025 file. Its most recent figures are from 2023 admissions, which is what this page leads with. In 2023 admissions, 14 of the 25 eighth graders at Brooklyn Lab Charter School who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 56%, more than half the grade. Across the charter sector the rate was 39%, so this school sits 17 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 36% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 30th of 134 in the charter sector on that measure. Its eighth grade is smaller than most in the charter sector: 125th of 159, against a median of 47.
The number of its students who received an offer to a specialized high school was 5 or fewer. The DOE does not publish counts that small, so it could be any number from zero to five; this page does not guess. That is the case at 154 of the 160 schools listed in the charter sector for 2023.
The number of testers went from 8 in 2022 admissions to 14 in 2023, up 6. The eighth grade itself shrank from 42 to 25 over the same years, so part of that movement is the size of the class, not the share sitting the test.
In the charter sector, the most offers in 2023 admissions went to students from Success Academy Charter School - Union Square (26), out of 98 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 | 42 | 8 | 19% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 25 | 14 | 56% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2025 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| Charter schools, 2023 | 8,173 | 2,981 | 39% | at least 98 | |
| New York City, 2023 | 25,959 | 3,994 |
“2023 admissions” means students who sat the SHSAT as eighth graders in the 2022-23 school year and received offers for fall 2023, 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 Brooklyn Lab Charter School when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2023 admissions.
- KIPP Freedom Charter School57% of 37 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Challenge Preparatory Charter School57% of 23 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Uncommon Brownsville North Charter School NYC56% of 39 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Icahn Charter School 255% of 31 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Children's Aid College Preparatory Charter School55% of 44 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Achievement First East New York Charter School54% of 52 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 Brooklyn Lab Charter School, 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 84K803. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.