Vista Academy: SHSAT testers and specialized high school offers, 2022-2025
District 19 · Brooklyn · DBN 19K661
- 8th graders, 2025
- 156
- Sat the SHSAT
- 38
- Took the test
- 24%
- Offers
- 5 or fewer (not published)
In 2025 admissions, 156 eighth graders at Vista Academy applied to high school, and only 38 of them sat the SHSAT (24%). That is close to the 24% rate across District 19. Citywide, among public middle schools that published both counts, 37% of eighth graders sat the test. It ranks 6th of 13 in District 19 on that measure. With 156 eighth graders applying to high school, it has the largest eighth grade of the 16 schools listed in District 19.
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 true of every school in District 19 that year.
The number of testers went from 24 in 2022 admissions to 38 in 2025, up 14. The sharpest move came between 2022 and 2023, when it rose by 18.
No school in District 19 had a published offer count in 2025 admissions: every one was 5 or fewer.
Year by year
| Admissions year | 8th graders | Sat the SHSAT | Took the test | Offers | Discovery |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 154 | 24 | 16% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2023 | 148 | 42 | 28% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2024 | 155 | 40 | 26% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| 2025 | 156 | 38 | 24% | 5 or fewer (not published) | 5 or fewer (not published) |
| District 19, 2025 | 1,389 | 288 | 24% | none published | |
| 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 19 with a similar share of testers
The schools just above and below Vista Academy when District 19’s schools are ordered by the share of eighth graders who sat the SHSAT in 2025 admissions.
- East New York Middle School of Excellence29% of 82 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- J.H.S. 292 Margaret S. Douglas29% of 106 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Frederick Douglass Academy VIII Middle School25% of 119 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Liberty Avenue Middle School23% of 149 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Legacy School of the Arts23% of 62 sat the test · offers: 5 or fewer (not published)
- Academy for Young Writers22% of 41 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 Vista 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 19K661. Rebuilt 2026-10-03. Method and caveats are set out on the index page. Back to all 721 middle schools.