Riverton Street Charter School: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2026
Charter schools · Queens · DBN 84Q341
- 8th graders, 2026
- 106
- Sat the SHSAT
- 39
- Took the test
- 37%
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
In 2026 admissions, 106 eighth graders at Riverton Street Charter School applied to high school and 39 of them sat the SHSAT, a participation rate of 37%. Across the charter sector the rate was 41%, so this school sits 4 points below it. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 39% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 85th of 140 in the charter sector on that measure. Its eighth grade is the 9th largest of 167 in the charter sector, above the median of 44.
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 159 of the 170 schools listed in the charter sector for 2026.
The number of testers went from 33 in 2022 admissions to 39 in 2026, up 6. The sharpest move came between 2023 and 2024, when it rose by 11.
In the charter sector, the most offers in 2026 admissions went to students from Success Academy Charter School - Hell's Kitchen (36), out of 157 published for the charter sector as a whole. The DOE’s file lists every charter school under district code 84, whatever its borough, so the comparison here is with other charter schools across the city, not with the neighborhood.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 103 | 33 | 32% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 101 | 32 | 32% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 99 | 43 | 43% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 103 | 47 | 46% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2026 | 106 | 39 | 37% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| Charter schools, 2026 | 8,384 | 3,223 | 41% | at least 157 | |
| 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.
Charter schools with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Riverton Street Charter School when the charter sector’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2026 admissions.
- University Prep Charter Middle School38% of 32 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Bedford Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School37% of 59 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Dream Charter School Mott Haven37% of 19 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Cypress Hills Ascend Charter School37% of 60 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Our World Neighborhood Charter School36% of 75 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Pave Academy Charter School35% of 48 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 Riverton Street Charter School, 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 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 Riverton Street Charter School, not where your child stands. We start with a scored official practice test, which does.
Your child is in 5th grade
Middle school applications: October 14 to 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 Riverton Street Charter School 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.
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 84Q341; 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.