The Index:

The Index: ACORN’s High School Choice Workshop Series has put together an index of all New York City Public High Schools. We suggest using this index as a starting point for narrowing down high school selection options. The index provides information for each school on the following categories:

Borough and Neighborhood: This category indicates where the school is located.

Themes/Type: “Themes” refers to the academic over-arching themes of the particular school. “Type” refers to whether the school is a Small School, Career and Technical Education (CTE) School, Charter School, International School, Specialized School, Zoned Program, Transfer Program, or any combination of these.

Programs Offered: This section shows the Academic Programs that are offered at each school as well as the Admission Requirements for each Program. An individual school’s Academic Programs are categorized into the above-mentioned Themes and Types. The Admission Requirements for each Program are also shown in parenthesis after each Program name and are coded as follows:

A=Audition
S=Screened
US=Unscreened
Limited US=Limited Unscreened
Ed. Opt.=Educational Option Program

Admission Requirements: This lists the various admission programs/selection methods used for admitting students into a Program. Please see the Admissions Programs section of this webpage for a further explanation of each type of Admissions Program.

Number of Students: This number represents the total number of students enrolled in the school.

Sports: The types of sports available at a particular school are categorized as those which fall under PSAL (Public School Athletic League) or under Intramural/School Sports. These are in turn further categorized by student gender (Boys, Girls, and Co-Ed). Further detail is available in the 2006-2007 Directory of the NYC Public High Schools.

Extracurricular Activities; Leadership and Support, Academic, Clubs, and Artistic: Extracurricular Activities fall into these four over-arching categories; further details as to specific activities by school are available in the 2006-2007 Directory of the NYC Public High Schools.

Site Accessibility and Special Education Services: For information regarding Site Accessibility and Special Education Services, please Click Here

ELL:For information regarding English Language Learners, please Click Here

Graduation Rate: Graduation Rates are listed for the school as a whole, based on the 2005 cohort of students at each school. Of this figure, percentages are listed for those students who graduated with a Regents or a Local Diploma. For example, at Abraham Lincoln High School, the graduation rate is displayed as follows:

Graduation Rate: 62.1%
% Of Graduates with a Local Diploma: 31.39%
% Of Graduates with a Regents Diploma: 68.1%

(Note: the percentages of Local and Regents Diploma graduates may not add up to 100%, because the percentage of students earning GEDs is not listed in the index).

Local Diploma: This diploma is awarded to students who receive between a 55%-64% on the Regents exams.

Regents Diploma: This diploma is awarded to students who receive a score of 65% or higher on the Regents exams.

Student Plans After Graduation: These figures are self-reported by each high school and may vary in their reliability. However, they can give a general sense of how well the school is preparing and encouraging students to further their education. Information from this section was taken from the 2004-2005 Annual School Report Cards.

Uniform Dress Code Required: Indicates if students at the selected high school must adhere to a uniform dress code.

Page Number in the Directory of NYC Public High Schools: This section lists the page number in the 2006-2007 Directory of the NYC Public High Schools, where the selected high school can be found in order to conduct further research.

To Be Phased Out: The NYC DOE has announced that 5 schools in Brooklyn and Manhattan will be phased out. They will no longer be accepting incoming 9th grade students. The schools to be phased out are as follows: Brooklyn: Lafayette High School, Samuel J. Tilden High School, and South Shore High School. Manhattan: The Urban Peace Academy and School for the Physical City High School.
Please note that all information provided on the following index is taken from the 2006-2007 Directory of the New York City Public High Schools unless otherwise stated in the above Index Key.

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Note: It is important to consider information about both the overall school and the specific program you are considering. It is a good idea to look at the strengths and weaknesses of a program within the context of the school or campus in which it is located.

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Further Research Steps: This index should be a first step in researching high school options. We urge parents and students not to make decisions based solely upon this index. Once you have begun narrowing down your choices, we recommend further researching the high schools using the 2006-2007 Directory of the NYC Public High Schools, www.Insideschools.org, and visits to the schools.

To begin using the index, select a borough from the list. This index then can be sorted by academic theme and neighborhood. To sort by academic theme, first select a borough and then use the drop down menu at the top of the page to select an academic theme (the drop down menu for themes is located under the drop down menu titled "Is One Of"). Click on submit to view the results.

To begin using the index Click Here