Black students are 20% of NYC public schools , and 3% of latest class at specialized high schools

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08/04/25

From NYT

On Thursday, the Department of Education announced that Black students received 3 percent of acceptance letters to the eight elite schools, known as specialized high schools, while Hispanic students were offered just under 7 percent of all spots. Both figures were a slight decline from last year.
At Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the most selective of the specialized schools, eight of the 781 offers this spring went to Black students while 27 went to Hispanic pupils. Asian students were offered 509 spots, and white students were offered 142. (Another 95 seats went to teenagers who identify as multiracial or whose background was unknown.)
The specialized schools educate about 5 percent of the city’s high school students. But they have long been viewed as a ladder into the nation’s top universities for students from immigrant households and low-income families.

During the last four decades, Black and Hispanic enrollment at these schools has plummeted as Asian representation has soared. The numbers stand out in a public school system in which 42 percent of students are Hispanic, 20 percent are Black, 19 percent are Asian and 16 percent are white. (Three percent of students are multiracial or Native American.)
 

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Public education needs more funding and an updating to its curriculum and teaching approach. Also, gotta make pre-school more affordable.

Parents also have to take more of a hand in their kids’ education. I learned to read due to my parents and my older brother first helping me.
 

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The real tragedy is that Black students are only 20% of NYCPS now. Many are attending charter school (which use public funding, and should also be considered public schools).
 

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Any stats about us are skewed.

Period ..

Think about trying to study in some of these neighborhoods.. or stay focused when life kicking everyone's ass around u.
 

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I heard a lot of high performing black students end up at elite private schools in NYC rather than the top public schools. Is that a real factor?
 

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I heard a lot of high performing black students end up at elite private schools in NYC rather than the top public schools. Is that a real factor?
It’s part of the story. Prép for prép and prép 9 usurpéd a lot of underepresented kids from public schools to day schools and boarding schools. Another factor is the Asians have the specialized schools on lock….
 

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It’s part of the story. Prép for prép and prép 9 usurpéd a lot of underepresented kids from public schools to day schools and boarding schools.
Is that a bad thing? Sounds like the public school in the neighborhoods they are from would miss out on funding.
 
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