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madfloridian

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7. Eva' Success school grads score too low on entrance exam for top city high schools.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 11:16 PM
Jul 2014
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/gonzalez-success-charter-students-fail-top-city-schools-article-1.1833960

A network spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday that 27 eighth-graders took the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test last fall, but none scored high enough to be offered a seat at one of the elite high schools that rely on the test, like Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech or Bronx Science.

Citywide, some 26,000 eighth-graders took the specialized high schools test in the fall of 2012, and 20% were offered a seat. So you’d expect a minimum of five or six students from Success 1 to score high enough to get into one of the elite schools.

...“We were shocked that none of our students was offered a seat in a specialized high school,” one parent told the Daily News.

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