J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2026

District 2 · Manhattan · DBN 02M104

8th graders, 2026: 339
Sat the SHSAT: 194
Took the test: 57%
Offers: 55

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, J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch admitted sixth graders through 2 programs (Zone Priority, Screened).

Its most requested program, J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch Screened Program, had 211 general education applicants for 145 seats, 1 applicant per seat in the DOE's count.

Seats, applicants and applicants per seat for each program at J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch, 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
J.H.S. 104 Simon BaruchOpen to New York City residents	Zone Priority	158	131	1	No	37	21	1
J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch Screened ProgramOpen to New York City residents	Screened	145	211	1	Yes	35	5	0

Where its students go next. The DOE lists Brooklyn Technical High School, Stuyvesant High School and High School for Environmental Studies 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, 194 of the 339 eighth graders at J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 57%, more than half the grade. That is close to the 55% rate across District 2. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 39% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 10th of 20 in District 2 on that measure. With 339 eighth graders applying to high school, it has the largest eighth grade of the 23 schools listed in District 2.

55 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 28% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 26,123 testers that year, 15.4%. That is the 15th highest count in the city, inside the group of 20 middle schools that together received 1,602 of the 4,023 offers.

The number of testers has held steady: 207 in 2022 admissions, 194 in 2026. Offers went from 44 in 2022 to 55 in 2026, with a high of 64 in 2024.

In District 2, the most offers in 2026 admissions went to students from J.H.S. 167 Robert F. Wagner (81), out of 370 published for the district as a whole.

Year by year

SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers at J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch by admissions year, from the New York City Department of Education.
Admissions year	8th graders	Sat the SHSAT	Took the test	Offers	Discovery
2022	335	207	62%	44	5 or fewer (not published)
2023	344	187	54%	37	5 or fewer (not published)
2024	312	169	54%	64	5 or fewer (not published)
2025	316	191	60%	54	5 or fewer (not published)
2026	339	194	57%	55	5 or fewer (not published)
District 2, 2026	2,306	1,219	55%	at least 370
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 2 with a similar share of testers

The schools just above and below J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch when District 2’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2026 admissions.

Battery Park City School65% of 81 sat the test · 29 offers
Ballet Tech, NYC Public School for Dance65% of 23 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
East Side Middle School62% of 140 sat the test · 32 offers
M.S. 13151% of 91 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
Lower Manhattan Community Middle School46% of 104 sat the test · 6 offers
Ella Baker School42% of 24 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)

Every school in District 2, side by side

See how this school ranks

In 2026 admissions, J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch received 55 specialized high school offers for 194 students who sat the SHSAT: 28.4 per 100. That ranks it #19 of 23 in Manhattan and #34 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 J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch, 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 J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch, 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.

J.H.S. 104 Simon Baruch 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 02M104; 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.