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)
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) |
| 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 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)
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 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 84M708. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.