P.S./I.S. 266: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2026

District 26 · Queens · DBN 26Q266

8th graders, 2026: 63
Sat the SHSAT: 18
Took the test: 29%
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, P.S./I.S. 266 admitted sixth graders through 2 programs (D75 Special Education Inclusive Services, Open).

Its most requested program, P.S./I.S. 266, had 93 general education applicants for 54 seats, 2 applicants per seat in the DOE's count.

Seats, applicants and applicants per seat for each program at P.S./I.S. 266, 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
P.S./I.S. 266 D75 Inclusion ProgramOpen to students currently in or recommended for District 75 Special Education Inclusive Services. If you are not currently in or recommended for these services, please contact D75info@schools.nyc.gov.	D75 Special Education Inclusive Services	n/a	6	n/a	Yes	4	0	0
P.S./I.S. 266Open to New York City residents	Open	54	93	2	Yes	21	33	2

Where its students go next. The DOE lists Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, Queens High School of Teaching, Liberal Arts and the Sciences and Bayside High School 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, 63 eighth graders at P.S./I.S. 266 applied to high school and 18 of them sat the SHSAT, a participation rate of 29%. Across District 26 the rate was 60%, so this school sits 32 points below it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 39% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 6th of 7 in District 26 on that measure. Its eighth grade is the smallest of the 7 listed in District 26, where the median school sends 288 applicants to high school.

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 2 of the 7 schools listed in District 26 for 2026.

The number of testers went from 29 in 2022 admissions to 18 in 2026, down 11. The sharpest move came between 2025 and 2026, when it fell by 11. The eighth grade itself shrank from 79 to 63 over the same years, so part of that movement is the size of the class, not the share sitting the test.

In District 26, the most offers in 2026 admissions went to students from J.H.S. 067 Louis Pasteur (93), out of 329 published for the district as a whole.

Year by year

SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers at P.S./I.S. 266 by admissions year, from the New York City Department of Education.
Admissions year	8th graders	Sat the SHSAT	Took the test	Offers	Discovery
2022	79	29	37%	5 or fewer (not published)	5 or fewer (not published)
2023	72	31	43%	5 or fewer (not published)	5 or fewer (not published)
2024	73	27	37%	5 or fewer (not published)	5 or fewer (not published)
2025	79	29	37%	5 or fewer (not published)	5 or fewer (not published)
2026	63	18	29%	5 or fewer (not published)	5 or fewer (not published)
District 26, 2026	1,912	1,153	60%	at least 329
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 26 with a similar share of testers

The schools just above and below P.S./I.S. 266 when District 26’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2026 admissions.

J.H.S. 067 Louis Pasteur77% of 332 sat the test · 93 offers
J.H.S. 216 George J. Ryan68% of 512 sat the test · 86 offers
J.H.S. 074 Nathaniel Hawthorne63% of 380 sat the test · 83 offers
M.S. 158 Marie Curie52% of 288 sat the test · 47 offers
Irwin Altman Middle School 17246% of 270 sat the test · 20 offers
P.S./ IS 178 Holliswood27% of 67 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)

Every school in District 26, side by side

See how this school ranks

P.S./I.S. 266 is not ranked for 2026 admissions: 18 students sat the SHSAT, under the 30 we require for a stable rate.

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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./I.S. 266, 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 P.S./I.S. 266, 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.

P.S./I.S. 266 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 26Q266; 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.