Urban Assembly School for Leadership and Empowerment: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
District 20 · Brooklyn · DBN 20K609
- 8th graders, 2025
- 53
- Sat the SHSAT
- 12
- Took the test
- 23%
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
In 2025 admissions, 53 eighth graders at Urban Assembly School for Leadership and Empowerment applied to high school, and only 12 of them sat the SHSAT (23%). Across District 20 the rate was 54%, so this school sits 32 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 16 schools in District 20 that published both counts. Its eighth grade is the smallest of the 16 listed in District 20, where the median school sends 154 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 4 of the 16 schools listed in District 20 for 2025.
The number of testers has held steady: 15 in 2022 admissions, 12 in 2025. The eighth grade itself shrank from 72 to 53 over the same years, so part of that movement is the size of the class, not the share sitting the test.
In District 20, the most offers in 2025 admissions went to students from J.H.S. 201 The Madeleine Brennan School (113), out of 469 published for the district as a whole.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 72 | 15 | 21% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 42 | 7 | 17% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 52 | 15 | 29% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 53 | 12 | 23% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 20, 2025 | 3,891 | 2,116 | 54% | at least 469 | |
| 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 20 with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Urban Assembly School when District 20’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- J.H.S. 220 John J. Pershing46% of 453 sat the test · 45 offers
- J.H.S. 223 The Montauk45% of 226 sat the test · 11 offers
- M.S. 93640% of 145 sat the test · 8 offers
- J.H.S. 227 Edward B. Shallow40% of 473 sat the test · 34 offers
- P.S./I.S. 30 Mary White Ovington35% of 127 sat the test · 7 offers
- J.H.S. 062 Ditmas34% of 339 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 Urban Assembly 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 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 20K609. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.