I.S. 5 - The Walter Crowley Intermediate School: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2026

District 24 · Queens · DBN 24Q005

8th graders, 2026: 389
Sat the SHSAT: 160
Took the test: 41%
Offers: 12

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, I.S. 5 admitted sixth graders through 4 programs (D75 Special Education Inclusive Services, Language Criteria, Open, Zone Priority).

Its most requested program, Walter H. Crowley Intermediate School (I.S. 5) Spanish Dual Language Program, had 47 general education applicants for 36 seats, 1 applicant per seat in the DOE's count.

The DOE marks that program’s general education seats as not all filled.

Seats, applicants and applicants per seat for each program at I.S. 5, Fall 2026 middle school admissions, from the New York City Department of Education.
Program	Admissions method	General education seats				Students with disabilities
Program	Admissions method	Seats	Applicants	Per seat	All filled	Seats	Applicants	Per seat
I.S. 5 - The Walter Crowley Intermediate School D75 Inclusion ProgramOpen to students currently in or recommended for District 75 Special Education Inclusive Services. If you are not currently in or recommended for these services, please contact D75info@schools.nyc.gov.	D75 Special Education Inclusive Services	n/a	3	n/a	n/a	4	0	0
Walter H. Crowley Intermediate School (I.S. 5) Spanish Dual Language ProgramOpen to New York City residents	Language Criteria	36	47	1	No	9	9	1
Walter H. Crowley Leadership STEM ProgramOpen to New York City residents	Open	170	151	1	No	40	17	0
The Walter H. Crowley Intermediate School (I.S. 5) Zoned ProgramOpen to New York City residents	Zone Priority	174	169	1	No	46	56	1

Where its students go next. The DOE lists Newtown High School, Forest Hills High School and William Cullen Bryant High School as the high schools 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, 389 eighth graders at I.S. 5 - The Walter Crowley Intermediate School applied to high school and 160 of them sat the SHSAT, a participation rate of 41%. Across District 24 the rate was 29%, so this school sits 12 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 39% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 5th of 15 in District 24 on that measure. Its eighth grade is the 4th largest of 15 in District 24, above the median of 208.

12 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 8% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 26,123 testers that year, 15.4%. It ranks 68th of the 111 middle schools whose 2026 offer count was large enough to be published.

The number of testers went from 244 in 2022 admissions to 160 in 2026, down 84. The sharpest move came between 2022 and 2023, when it fell by 52. The eighth grade itself shrank from 557 to 389 over the same years, so part of that movement is the size of the class, not the share sitting the test. Offers went from 34 in 2022 to 12 in 2026.

In District 24, the most offers in 2026 admissions went to students from I.S. 73 - The Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School (48), out of 113 published for the district as a whole.

Discovery, the DOE’s summer program that offers a specialized high school seat to disadvantaged students who complete it, counted 18 of its students in 2022, 6 in 2023, 7 in 2024, 7 in 2025 and 11 in 2026.

Year by year

SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers at I.S. 5 - The Walter Crowley Intermediate School by admissions year, from the New York City Department of Education.
Admissions year	8th graders	Sat the SHSAT	Took the test	Offers	Discovery
2022	557	244	44%	34	18
2023	504	192	38%	22	6
2024	532	183	34%	22	7
2025	402	162	40%	25	7
2026	389	160	41%	12	11
District 24, 2026	3,887	1,144	29%	at least 113
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 24 with a similar share of testers

The schools just above and below I.S. 5 when District 24’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2026 admissions.

P.S. 102 Bayview52% of 125 sat the test · 7 offers
P.S./I.S. 119 The Glendale44% of 208 sat the test · 26 offers
I.S. 73 - The Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School41% of 584 sat the test · 48 offers
P.S. 128 The Lorraine Tuzzo, Juniper Valley Elementary School39% of 84 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
P.S. 049 Dorothy Bonawit Kole38% of 136 sat the test · 10 offers
P.S./I.S. 113 Anthony J. Pranzo34% of 96 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)

Every school in District 24, side by side

See how this school ranks

In 2026 admissions, I.S. 5 received 12 specialized high school offers for 160 students who sat the SHSAT: 7.5 per 100. That ranks it #34 of 38 in Queens and #97 of 105 citywide, among schools with at least 30 test-takers.

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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 I.S. 5, 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.

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 I.S. 5, 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.

Dates for fall 2027 entry read on schools.nyc.gov on October 3, 2026.

I.S. 5 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 24Q005; 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.