P.S. 129 John H. Finley: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022
District 5 · Manhattan · DBN 05M129
- 8th graders, 2022
- 37
- Sat the SHSAT
- 7
- Took the test
- 19%
- 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).
P.S. 129 John H. Finley does not appear in the DOE's 2026 file. Its most recent figures are from 2022 admissions, which is what this page leads with. In 2022 admissions, 37 eighth graders at P.S. 129 John H. Finley applied to high school, and only 7 of them sat the SHSAT (19%). Across District 5 the rate was 25%, so this school sits 6 points below it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 36% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 5th of 9 in District 5 on that measure. Its eighth grade is smaller than most in District 5: 8th of 11, against a median of 52.
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 2022.
2022 is the only year this school appears in the DOE’s file.
In District 5, the most offers in 2022 admissions went to students from Columbia Secondary School (23), out of 23 published for the district as a whole.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 37 | 7 | 19% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2024 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2025 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| 2026 | not listed | not listed | not listed | not listed | |
| District 5, 2022 | 618 | 126 | 25% | at least 23 | |
| New York City, 2022 | 27,669 | 4,053 |
“2022 admissions” means students who sat the SHSAT as eighth graders in the 2021-22 school year and received offers for fall 2022, 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 P.S. 129 John H. Finley when District 5’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2022 admissions.
- Columbia Secondary School44% of 94 sat the test · 23 offers
- New Design Middle School40% of 40 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Teachers College Community School36% of 33 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem19% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- P.S. 123 Mahalia Jackson16% of 58 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- P.S. 161 Pedro Albizu Campos11% of 119 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
See how this school ranks
P.S. 129 John H. Finley 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 P.S. 129 John H. Finley, 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
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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 P.S. 129 John H. Finley, 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 P.S. 129 John H. Finley 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.
P.S. 129 John H. Finley 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 05M129; 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.