Check your high school list. Every school, side by side.
Add the schools your 8th grader plans to rank, by name or DBN. Each one shows its average SAT, its English and Algebra I Regents pass rates and how its SAT has moved, out of 618 NYC public high schools. The list is checked for repeats, for schools that are ranked somewhere else, and for a list that sits at one level only. Share it by link or print it; nothing is stored.
Check my listThe High School Application for fall 2027 closes Friday, December 4, 2026: 36 days from today.
Add the schools in the order your child plans to rank them. Each one shows its average SAT, its English and Algebra I Regents pass rates and a link to its full page; the list is then checked for repeats, schools that are ranked elsewhere, and whether every school sits at the same level.
Figures from NYC Open Data (School Quality Reports), as published on our SAT scoreboard and Regents pass rates. Application rules from NYC Public Schools, checked 2026-10-29. A reference point on public data, not a prediction of admission. Nothing you enter is stored: the list lives in the page address. NYC Public Schools recommends at least 12 programs.
What the list check reads, and what it does not
The figures are the ones we already publish school by school: the NYC high school SAT scoreboard (2024 averages, city average 979) and the Regents pass rates by high school (2024-25). The trend is the change in a school’s average SAT between the first and the latest year it was measured.
A list is flagged when every measured school on it sits in the same band of city results: none of them stands apart from the rest. That is a reading of public numbers, not an admission forecast. Offers depend on each program’s admission method and on how many students rank it, and those are on the program’s page in MySchools.
The High School Application for fall 2027 closes Friday, December 4, 2026, and NYC Public Schools recommends at least 12 programs (NYC Public Schools — High School admissions; Specialized High Schools rules: NYC Public Schools — Specialized High Schools; both checked 2026-10-29).
Questions families actually ask
How many schools should be on a NYC high school application?
There is no cap. NYC Public Schools writes: “You can add any number of programs to your high school application; we recommend you apply to at least twelve.” The application ranks programs, so one school can appear more than once if it has several programs your child wants.
Do the Specialized High Schools go on the same list?
No. The eight testing Specialized High Schools admit by SHSAT score alone, and the order of preference is given in the SHSAT registration: students are not considered for a school they did not list there. LaGuardia has its own application in MySchools, with a portfolio and auditions, and does not use the SHSAT.
Does a high average SAT mean a school is hard to get into?
Not on its own. An average SAT or a Regents pass rate describes the students who attended the school, not how many applicants a program takes or how it admits them. Those rules are on each program’s page in MySchools. This tool sets the figures side by side; it does not predict an offer.
Where do the figures come from?
From the NYC Department of Education’s School Quality Reports on NYC Open Data, the same figures as our SAT scoreboard and Regents pass-rate pages. When the DOE publishes no figure for a school (too few test takers, or none), the tool shows a dash and invents nothing.
Ranking the Specialized High Schools instead? The SHSAT score calculator sets a practice score against each school’s cutoff, and the SHSAT in 9th grade is the second chance. Everything else is in the free tools hub.