North Bronx School of Empowerment: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
District 11 · Bronx · DBN 11X287
- 8th graders, 2025
- 129
- Sat the SHSAT
- 30
- Took the test
- 23%
- 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).
North Bronx School of Empowerment does not appear in the DOE's 2026 file. Its most recent figures are from 2025 admissions, which is what this page leads with. In 2025 admissions, 129 eighth graders at North Bronx School of Empowerment applied to high school, and only 30 of them sat the SHSAT (23%). Across District 11 the rate was 40%, so this school sits 16 points below it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 17th of 20 in District 11 on that measure. Its eighth grade is the 9th largest of 20 in District 11, above the median of 117.
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 17 of the 20 schools listed in District 11 for 2025.
The number of testers ended close to where it began, 30 in 2022 admissions and 30 in 2025, but not in a straight line: it fell by 22 between 2022 and 2023.
In District 11, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from P.S./M.S. 194 (11), out of 30 published for the district as a whole.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 124 | 30 | 24% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 141 | 8 | 6% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 128 | 29 | 23% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 129 | 30 | 23% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2026 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| District 11, 2025 | 2,592 | 1,026 | 40% | at least 30 | |
| 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 Fall 2025 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 North Bronx School of Empowerment when District 11’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- P.S. 083 Donald Hertz27% of 218 sat the test · 9 offers
- P.S. 175 City Island25% of 28 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- One World Middle School at Edenwald24% of 106 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Leaders of Tomorrow15% of 154 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Green Middle School10% of 118 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Alliance Middle School10% of 59 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
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North Bronx School of Empowerment is not ranked for 2026 admissions: the DOE did not publish enough of its counts.
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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 North Bronx School of Empowerment, 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 North Bronx School of Empowerment, 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 North Bronx School of Empowerment 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.
North Bronx School of Empowerment 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 11X287; 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.