Quest to Learn: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
District 2 · Manhattan · DBN 02M422
- 8th graders, 2025
- 93
- Sat the SHSAT
- 14
- Took the test
- 15%
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
In 2025 admissions, 93 eighth graders at Quest to Learn applied to high school, and only 14 of them sat the SHSAT (15%). Across District 2 the rate was 56%, so this school sits 41 points below it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It had the lowest participation of the 20 schools in District 2 that published both counts. Its eighth grade is the 12th largest of 23 in District 2, above the median of 93.
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 11 of the 24 schools listed in District 2 for 2025.
The number of testers went from 22 in 2022 admissions to 14 in 2025, down 8. The sharpest move came between 2022 and 2023, when it fell by 11.
In District 2, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from New York City Lab Middle School for Collaborative Studies (70), out of 377 published for the district as a whole.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 78 | 22 | 28% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 75 | 11 | 15% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 80 | 19 | 24% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 93 | 14 | 15% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 2, 2025 | 2,346 | 1,264 | 56% | at least 377 | |
| 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 2 with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Quest to Learn when District 2’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- P.S./I.S. 217 Roosevelt Island41% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- The Clinton School39% of 99 sat the test · 10 offers
- School of the Future High School32% of 87 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Ella Baker School32% of 19 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- M.S. 29727% of 131 sat the test · 6 offers
- Institute for Collaborative Education19% of 70 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 Quest to Learn, 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 02M422. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.