By Julissa Catalan
New York City eighth-graders learned this week which specialized public high schools they will attend this fall, but nearly all of the students who got into the city’s eight top-tier (“specialized”) schools were either white or Asian.
The New York City Department of Education says that 84 percent of the 77,043 applicants got into one of their top five choices, including 45 percent who got into their first-choice school. But of the 5,096 students admitted to the eight top-tier schools, only 5 percent are Black, while 7 percent are Latinoeven though Latinos make up 40 percent of NYC public school students and Blacks account for 30 percent.
