Harlem Prep Charter School: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
Charter schools · Manhattan · DBN 84M708
- 8th graders, 2025
- 33
- Sat the SHSAT
- 7
- Took the test
- 21%
- 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).
Harlem Prep Charter School does not appear in the DOE's 2026 file. Its most recent figures are from 2025 admissions, which is what this page leads with. In 2025 admissions, 33 eighth graders at Harlem Prep Charter School applied to high school, and only 7 of them sat the SHSAT (21%). Across the charter sector the rate was 40%, so this school sits 19 points below it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 123rd of 139 in the charter sector on that measure. Its eighth grade is smaller than most in the charter sector: 111th of 160, against a median of 48.
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 153 of the 162 schools listed in the charter sector for 2025.
The number of testers has held steady: 9 in 2022 admissions, 7 in 2025. The eighth grade itself shrank from 103 to 33 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 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 | 103 | 9 | 9% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 30 | 12 | 40% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 19 | 7 | 37% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 33 | 7 | 21% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2026 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 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 Fall 2025 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.
Charter schools with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Harlem Prep Charter School when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- Academy of the City Charter School23% of 84 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Grand Concourse Academy Charter School22% of 72 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Leaders in Our Neighborhood Charter School21% of 28 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Growing Up Green Charter School21% of 90 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Boys Preparatory Charter School of New York21% of 57 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Challenge Preparatory Charter School20% of 35 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
See how this school ranks
Harlem Prep Charter School 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 Harlem Prep 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 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 Harlem Prep Charter School, 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 Harlem Prep Charter School 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.
Harlem Prep Charter School 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 84M708; 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.