School Enrollment

The conference marked 20 years since city officials made major reforms that set the admissions system on the path to what families see today.

About 6,000 students in Jeffco lost Medicaid, which had automatically qualified them as at-risk students.

The extension came hours before applications were set to close for the city’s eighth graders, who rank 12 or more top choices from an array of over 400 schools.

The numbers mark the second straight year that enrollment declines have flattened out, a welcome development for the city’s public school system.

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New York City, like other districts across the country, is grappling with a yearslong enrollment decline and a growing number of tiny schools.

The delay comes as this year’s fifth graders will be able to apply widely to middle schools across the city for the first time, instead of largely being limited to their home zone or district.

The city’s notoriously complex high school admissions process opened Tuesday. Middle school kicks off Oct. 9. Families will soon be able to access their random number, or 'lottery' number, in MySchools.

New York City families can apply to more than 12 high schools this year, as well as any middle school across the city, the city’s Education Department announced.

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Superintendent goes door to door checking on students who haven’t shown up this year.

The new tool is being developed through a partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s BluePrint Labs. Officials said the timeline for its release remains unclear.

The overall enrollment of New York City’s school system, as well as its demographic makeup, has been changing. Here’s what to know about where things stand.

New York City's public university system is now spending $12 million in ads to promote support programs for Hispanic students, who were among the most impacted during the pandemic.

District leaders will spend more than a quarter of a million dollars to rehire a Memphis-based marketing firm tasked with recruiting up to 311 students.

The list of schools that would offer the admissions bump hasn’t been finalized. But the campuses under consideration include Millennium, Beacon, Bard Early College and Eleanor Roosevelt High Schools.

The schools offer a mix of elementary, middle, and high school programs across three boroughs.

For many, the Wednesday placements marked the end of the city’s middle school admissions process.