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City fl aunts improved
middle, high school
application process
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is changing the middle and high school application process
“so families don’t have to go through the gauntlet just to get a placement.”
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BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
The application process for students
entering middle and high school for the
2020-21 school year is about to become
shorter, easier and more transparent,
according to Mayor Bill de Blasio and
Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza.
Now, there will only be one application
round and deadline for families to
keep track of. All admissions processes
will have one round, from 3-K to high
school. Students will be placed on a waitlist
for each school listed higher on their
application than the school to which
they are offered admission, informed of
their spot on the waitlist, and immediately
offered admission off the waitlists
as seats become available.
“Parents have enough on their
plate—tangling with bureaucracy to get
their child into school shouldn’t add to
the load,” de Blasio. “We are changing
the middle and high school application
processes so families don’t have to go
through the gauntlet just to get a placement.
There will be one application
round and one deadline to make everyone’s
lives easier.”
The change was made after families
and educators said that they would like
a “simpler, more transparent, and more
accessible system of school choice,” according
to Carranza.
“This common-sense change will
make a real difference for families
across the fi ve boroughs, and improve
our middle and high school choice process
for years to come,” Carranza said.
The DOE is eliminating the second
application rounds for middle and high
school. The main round application process
and timeline will remain the same,
with middle and high school applications
opening in October with a December
deadline. Students will receive their
offer in March. Families can still appeal
for travel, safety, or medical hardships;
if families have any hardship, they will
be able to access in-person support at
Family Welcome Centers, rather than
wait to participate in a second process.
The waitlists will open after offers
are released and will be a simpler,
clearer process for families, increasing:
• Transparency: By knowing their
waitlist position, families have a better
understanding of their chances of getting
into a preferred school option in the
event that seats become available.
• Ease: This is a shorter process that
requires less paperwork. Rather than
having to complete a second application
and wait weeks—often into May
or June—for a second decision or offer,
families will complete one process,
receive one offer, and receive any additional
offers based on waitlist position.
• Consistency: Families will now
have one admissions system at all grade
levels, with the changes to the middle
and high school process making it more
similar to the elementary school admissions
process. Currently the elementary
school process has one round, and the
middle and high school processes have
two rounds with different names; now,
families will not need to learn a different
process each time a child applies to a
new school—allowing them to focus on
school options and not process.
There will be a robust set of resources
available to schools and families
to ensure educators and families
have information about the changes being
implemented, and the DOE will engage
families once school is back in session.
Information will be distributed to all
principals and throughout the fall, the
DOE will conduct training for school
staff on the application process. In February
and March, the DOE will provide
targeted, in-depth training on waitlist
management and systems.
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