SSAT test dates, 2026–27: six Saturdays, and the Sunday that closes each one

The Standard paper SSAT is given on six Saturdays: October 10, November 14 and December 12, 2026, and January 9, January 30 and March 13, 2027. The Middle and Upper Levels can sit on every one of them; the Elementary Level (grades 3 and 4) only on November 14 and December 12, 2026. The two computer-based options run on other days: SSAT at Home on select weeks, Tuesday to Saturday, and Prometric at most of its centers every day.

There are three cut-offs for every Standard date, and each falls on a fixed weekday. The regular price ends on the Sunday three weeks before the test. From that Sunday, a $59 late fee applies; from the Sunday two weeks before, a $100 rush fee, until registration closes at 11:59 p.m. Eastern on the Wednesday before the test. For the Saturday, October 10, 2026 test: late fee from Sunday, September 20, rush fee from Sunday, September 27, last day Wednesday, October 7. With testing accommodations, registration closes 14 days before the test, and the accommodations must be approved first.

In the US and Canada: Standard or school Flex, Elementary Level (grades 3–4): $112; Standard or school Flex, Middle/Upper Level (grades 5–11): $177; SSAT at Home, Middle/Upper Level: $263; Prometric SSAT, Middle/Upper Level: $250. The $59 late fee and the $100 rush fee apply to the Standard paper test only. Changing the date or the test center of a paper test costs $49, and E3n does not refund a canceled registration. Fee waivers are requested from the schools you apply to.

Standard paper scores are usually released within two weeks of the test date, and in rare cases up to three weeks; there is no paid fast scoring. SSAT at Home scores usually come out the Wednesday after the test, and Prometric scores the Wednesday after the Sunday that ends the scoring week. Schools on your recipient list see the score the same day you do, but only once a parent has completed the Testing Experience Statement in the SSAT account. You can also see the score first and add schools afterwards: they get access straight away.

The SSAT testing year runs from August 1 to July 31. Inside it, a Middle or Upper Level student can take up to six Standard paper tests and one Flex test, one SSAT at Home, and for now one Prometric test (E3n says this moves to two later this fall). An Elementary Level student can take three in all: two Standard and one Flex.

26 of the 59 New York City private schools on our list accept the SSAT for at least one entry grade, read on each school's own admissions page on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. Every one of them also accepts the ISEE: none asks for the SSAT alone. The table on this page gives each school's application deadline and the last Standard date whose score usually arrives before it.