Pugsley Preparatory Academy: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
District 8 · Bronx · DBN 08X562
- 8th graders, 2025
- 204
- Sat the SHSAT
- 67
- Took the test
- 33%
- Offers
- 7
In 2025 admissions, 204 eighth graders at Pugsley Preparatory Academy applied to high school and 67 of them sat the SHSAT, a participation rate of 33%. Across District 8 the rate was 29%, so this school sits 4 points above it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 9th of 16 in District 8 on that measure. With 204 eighth graders applying to high school, it has the largest eighth grade of the 16 schools listed in District 8.
7 students from the school received an offer to one of the eight testing specialized high schools, 10% of its testers. Across the city, 4,023 offers went to 25,933 testers that year, 15.5%. It ranks 102nd of the 116 middle schools whose 2025 offer count was large enough to be published.
The number of testers went from 48 in 2022 admissions to 67 in 2025, up 19. The sharpest move came between 2024 and 2025, when it rose by 17. In 2022 and 2023 and 2024, the offer count was 5 or fewer and was not published; 2025 is the only year it cleared that line, at 7.
In District 8, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from M.S. X101 Edward R. Byrne (14), out of 21 published for the district as a whole.
The DOE has listed this school under other names: “Blueprint Middle School” (2022). The figures above follow the school code, 08X562, which did not change. Discovery, the DOE’s summer program that offers a specialized high school seat to disadvantaged students who complete it, counted 6 of its students in 2024 (other years: 5 or fewer, not published).
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 183 | 48 | 26% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 188 | 42 | 22% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 195 | 50 | 26% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 6 |
| 2025 | 204 | 67 | 33% | 7 | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 8, 2025 | 1,739 | 501 | 29% | at least 21 | |
| 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 8 with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Pugsley Preparatory Academy when District 8’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- The Bronx Mathematics Preparatory School35% of 51 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- M.S. 302 Luisa Dessus Cruz34% of 120 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- J.H.S. 131 Albert Einstein34% of 107 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar28% of 58 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bronx Academy for Multi-Media23% of 71 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- The School for Inquiry and Social Justice22% of 143 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 Pugsley Preparatory Academy, 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 08X562. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.