Frederick Douglass Academy: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2026
District 5 · Manhattan · DBN 05M499
- 8th graders, 2026
- 38
- Sat the SHSAT
- 5 or fewer (not published)
- Took the test
- not published (a count is masked)
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
SHSAT 2026: registration October 6–30; the test is November 14–15 (School Day November 18, 9th grade November 21).
For families choosing a middle school
Getting in (Fall 2026 admissions)
In Fall 2026 middle school admissions, Frederick Douglass Academy admitted sixth graders through one program (Screened).
It had 46 general education applicants for 49 seats, 1 applicant per seat in the DOE's count.
The DOE marks its general education seats as not all filled.
| Program | Admissions method | General education seats | Students with disabilities | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seats | Applicants | Per seat | All filled | Seats | Applicants | Per seat | ||
| Frederick Douglass AcademyOpen to New York City residents | Screened | 49 | 46 | 1 | No | 14 | 18 | 1 |
Where its students go next. The DOE lists Frederick Douglass Academy as the high school its students most often attend.
Fall 2026 admissions: families applied in fall 2025 for sixth grade in September 2026. Seats, applicants and applicants per seat are the DOE’s, from its Fall 2026 Middle School Data file on InfoHub (saved by the DOE 2026-09-18), the same figures MySchools shows as last year’s demand. The DOE counts applicants this way: “MySchools shows the true number of applicants who were considered for a seat in a program, meaning this number excludes applicants who matched to a more preferred choice from their application.” (schools.nyc.gov, read October 4, 2026). Applicants per seat is the DOE’s own figure, rounded to a whole number, so 0 means fewer than one applicant for every two seats. “All filled” is the DOE’s flag for whether every seat in that group was filled; “n/a” means the file gives no figure. Seats and demand change every year; this page does not turn them into a chance of admission.
In 2026 admissions, 38 eighth graders at Frederick Douglass Academy applied to high school. The number who sat the SHSAT was 5 or fewer, a count the DOE does not publish, so no participation rate can be given for that year. Its eighth grade is the 5th largest of 11 in District 5, above the median of 37.
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 10 of the 11 schools listed in District 5 for 2026.
2022 is the only year with a published tester count for this school: 6 of 67 eighth graders (9%). In 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026, the tester count was 5 or fewer and is not published. The eighth grade shrank from 67 in 2022 to 38 in 2026.
In District 5, the most offers in 2026 admissions went to students from Columbia Secondary School (20), out of 20 published for the district as a whole.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 67 | 6 | 9% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 65 | 5 or fewer (not published) | n/a | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 59 | 5 or fewer (not published) | n/a | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 39 | 5 or fewer (not published) | n/a | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2026 | 38 | 5 or fewer (not published) | n/a | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 5, 2026 | 493 | 99 | 34% | at least 20 | |
| New York City, 2026 | 26,123 | 4,023 |
“2026 admissions” means students who sat the SHSAT as eighth graders in the 2025-26 school year and received offers for fall 2026, as in the DOE’s Fall 2026 SHSAT and Discovery Summary. “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.
Schools in District 5 with a similar-sized eighth grade
Frederick Douglass Academy has no published participation rate for 2026, so these are the schools in District 5 whose eighth grade is closest in size to its 38.
- Thurgood Marshall Academy for Learning and Social Change37 eighth graders · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- P.S. 046 Arthur Tappan33 eighth graders · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders53% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- New Design Middle School41% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Teachers College Community School14% of 49 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson51 eighth graders · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
See how this school ranks
Frederick Douglass Academy is not ranked for 2026 admissions: the DOE did not publish enough of its counts.
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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 Frederick Douglass Academy, 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 19, 2026.
Your child is in 6th or 7th grade
A 7th grader sits the SHSAT in fall 2027; a 6th grader, in fall 2028.
The test comes in the fall of 8th grade, so there is no deadline yet, and that is the point: starting now leaves time to work on reading and math at a steady pace instead of in the last weeks. The counts above show what happened at Frederick Douglass Academy, not where your child stands. We start with a scored official practice test, which does.
Your child is in 5th grade
Middle school applications are open until December 11.
Start with how many families applied for each seat last year: the DOE publishes it program by program. The middle school you choose is also where the SHSAT years happen, so ask the schools on your list how many of their students sit the test and how they prepare them.
- How hard Frederick Douglass Academy is to get into
- SHSAT preparation: what it involves and when to start
Dates for fall 2027 entry read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.
Frederick Douglass Academy is a school figure. Your child needs a score.
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 05M499; 2026 figures from the DOE’s Fall 2026 SHSAT and Discovery Summary on InfoHub, not yet on NYC Open Data. Rebuilt 2026-10-04. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 735 middle schools.