New York City’s best public schools are harder to get into than the Ivy Leagues

About 6%.

That was your child’s shot at being accepted to one of New York City’s gifted-and-talented programs this school year. A report out this morning from the city’s Independent Budget Office finds that 36,000 students took the test to get in—for only 2,200 kindergarten seats (and a handful in grades 1 to 3).

Of course, many more children qualified by scoring in the 90th percentile or above. But the IBO points out that “in recent years most of the G&T programs can only accommodate students ranking closest to the 99th percentile.” Indeed, a snapshot of the 5,400 qualified kindergarteners shows that very few of those who scored between the 90th and 96th percentile got a seat:



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