M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2026
District 11 · Bronx · DBN 11X180
- 8th graders, 2026
- 249
- Sat the SHSAT
- 178
- Took the test
- 71%
- 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, M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams admitted sixth graders through 4 programs (Open, Audition, Zone Priority, ASD/ACES Program).
Its most requested program, School for the Arts, had 79 general education applicants for 76 seats, 1 applicant per seat in the DOE's count.
The DOE marks that program’s 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 | ||
| Pre-Engineering and MathOpen to New York City residents | Open | 47 | 35 | 1 | No | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| School for the ArtsOpen to New York City residents | Audition | 76 | 79 | 1 | No | 20 | 16 | 1 |
| Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (I.S. 180)Open to New York City residents | Zone Priority | 118 | 111 | 1 | No | 20 | 38 | 2 |
| Dr. Daniel Hale Williams ACES 12:1:1 ProgramOpen to students currently in an ACES (Academics, Career, and Essential Skills) program. If you are not currently an ACES student and are interested in the program, please contact acesprograms@schools.nyc.gov | ASD/ACES Program | 0 | 0 | n/a | No | 12 | 2 | 0 |
Where its students go next. The DOE lists Harry S Truman High School, Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship: A College Board School and Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music, The 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, 178 of the 249 eighth graders at M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams who applied to high school sat the SHSAT: 71%, more than half the grade. Across District 11 the rate was 42%, so this school sits 29 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 39% of eighth graders sat the test. No school in District 11 had a higher share of its eighth grade sit the SHSAT that year. Its eighth grade is the 3rd largest of 19 in District 11, above the median of 109.
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 16 of the 19 schools listed in District 11 for 2026.
The number of testers went from 148 in 2022 admissions to 178 in 2026, up 30. In 2022 and 2024 and 2025 and 2026, the offer count was 5 or fewer and was not published; 2023 is the only year it cleared that line, at 6.
In District 11, the most offers in 2026 admissions went to students from J.H.S. 127 The Castle Hill (10), out of 28 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 7 of its students in 2022 (other years: 5 or fewer, not published).
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 297 | 148 | 50% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 7 |
| 2023 | 248 | 161 | 65% | 6 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 252 | 167 | 66% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 261 | 189 | 72% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2026 | 249 | 178 | 71% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 11, 2026 | 2,634 | 1,107 | 42% | at least 28 | |
| 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 11 with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams when District 11’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2026 admissions.
- P.S. 089 Bronx65% of 179 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- J.H.S. 127 The Castle Hill55% of 276 sat the test · 10 offers
- P.S. 019 Judith K. Weiss51% of 92 sat the test · 8 offers
- P.S./M.S. 19451% of 145 sat the test · 10 offers
- I.S. 181 Pablo Casals46% of 160 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Alliance Middle School45% of 84 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
See how this school ranks
M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams is not ranked for 2026 admissions: 178 students sat the SHSAT, but its offer count was 5 or fewer, which the DOE does not publish, so no rate can be computed.
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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 M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, 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 M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, 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 M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 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.
M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 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 11X180; 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.