New Design Middle School: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
District 5 · Manhattan · DBN 05M514
- 8th graders, 2025
- 33
- Sat the SHSAT
- 16
- Took the test
- 48%
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
In 2025 admissions, 33 eighth graders at New Design Middle School applied to high school and 16 of them sat the SHSAT, a participation rate of 48%. Across District 5 the rate was 27%, so this school sits 22 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 2nd of 9 in District 5 on that measure. Its eighth grade is smaller than most in District 5: 9th of 11, against a median of 47.
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 10 of the 11 schools listed in District 5 for 2025.
The number of testers has held steady: 16 in 2022 admissions, 16 in 2025.
In District 5, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from Columbia Secondary School (15), out of 15 published for the district as a whole.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 40 | 16 | 40% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 29 | 9 | 31% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 42 | 16 | 38% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 33 | 16 | 48% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 5, 2025 | 553 | 132 | 27% | at least 15 | |
| 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.
Schools in District 5 with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below New Design Middle School when District 5’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- Urban Assembly Academy for Future Leaders74% of 31 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Columbia Secondary School42% of 99 sat the test · 15 offers
- P.S. 046 Arthur Tappan20% of 55 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Teachers College Community School17% of 47 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson16% of 56 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- M.S. 37115% of 41 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 New Design Middle 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 05M514. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.