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What are the cutoff scores for the Specialized High Schools?
Offers to the testing Specialized High Schools are made in descending order of SHSAT score, combined with each student’s preferences listed on their SHSAT registration. Here’s how that works:
The student with the highest SHSAT score receives an offer to their first choice school. The student with the next highest SHSAT score receives an offer to their first choice school. This continues student by student in downward score order until a student’s first-choice school does not have any remaining seats. That student is then considered for their second-choice school. If there are remaining seats at the second-choice school, that student receives an offer there. If the second-choice school has no remaining seats, that student is considered for their third-choice school, and so on. This continues until all seats at all Specialized High Schools have been filled.
If a student doesn’t get an offer to their first-choice school, it is because all seats at that school have been filled by students with higher SHSAT scores. Similarly, if a student gets an offer to a non-first choice school, it is because all seats at schools they listed higher have been filled by students with higher SHSAT scores (e.g., if a student gets an offer to their fourth-choice school, then seats at their first to third-choice schools are filled with higher scoring students.)
If a student doesn’t get any offer to a testing Specialized High School, it is because all seats at all the schools they listed on their SHSAT registration are filled by students with higher SHSAT scores. Students are not considered for offers to schools that are not listed on their SHSAT registration.
The SHSAT is the only criteria used to admit students to the eight testing Specialized High Schools; no other criteria are used.
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | ||
| Specialized High School | Est. Raw Score | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff | Cutoff |
| Stuyvesant High School | 90% | 556 | 561 | 561 | 563 | 559 | 566 | 557 | 559 | 555 | 552 | 555 | 559 | 562 | 562 |
| High School For Mathematics, Science And Engineering At City College (HSMSE) | 88% | 526 | 542 | 518 | 532 | 515 | 522 | 519 | 516 | 504 | 513 | 503 | 512 | 498 | 495 |
| Staten Island Technical High School | 88% | 527 | 519 | 521 | 527 | 525 | 529 | 527 | 519 | 515 | 508 | 508 | 506 | 503 | 499 |
| The Bronx High School of Science | 87% | 518 | 526 | 521 | 524 | 517 | 531 | 525 | 518 | 512 | 511 | 510 | 517 | 513 | 512 |
| Queens High School For The Sciences At York College | 87% | 518 | 524 | 527 | 523 | 515 | 522 | 514 | 511 | 507 | 516 | 505 | n/a | 500 | n/a |
| High School Of American Studies At Lehman College | 85% | 504 | 514 | 510 | 516 | 502 | 517 | 524 | 516 | 516 | 506 | 503 | 506 | 501 | 502 |
| Brooklyn Technical High School | 85% | 505 | 507 | 503 | 506 | 493 | 507 | 498 | 493 | 486 | 482 | 483 | 486 | 483 | 482 |
| The Brooklyn Latin School | 84% | 496 | 492 | 493 | 497 | 481 | 494 | 488 | 482 | 479 | 477 | 477 | 480 | 471 | 472 |
The table above shows the lowest qualifying score that resulted in an offer to each testing Specialized High School from 2012 to 2025. This means that any student with a SHSAT score lower than one listed on the table did not get an offer to that school. The lowest score to result in an offer changes each year based on the SHSAT scores and preferences of the pool of testers for that specific SHSAT administration.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into Stuyvesant in 2025?
The cutoff score for Stuyvesant in 2025 was 556. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 22,354 applicants for 850 seats, an average of 26 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into HSMSE in 2025?
The cutoff score for HSMSE in 2025 was 526. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 19,661 applicants for 140 seats, an average of 140 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into Staten Island Tech in 2025?
The cutoff score for Staten Island Tech in 2025 was 527. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 15,704 applicants for 328 seats, an average of 48 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into Bronx Science in 2025?
The cutoff score for Bronx Science in 2025 was 518. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 19,396 applicants for 748 seats, an average of 26 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into Queens High School For The Sciences At York College in 2025?
The cutoff score for QHSS in 2025 was 518. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 16,873 applicants for 116 seats, an average of 145 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into High School Of American Studies At Lehman College in 2025?
The cutoff score for HSAS-Lehman in 2025 was 504. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 16,740 applicants for 104 seats, an average of 161 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into Brooklyn Tech in 2025?
The cutoff score for Brooklyn Tech in 2025 was 505. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 23,910 applicants for 1,490 seats, an average of 16 applications per seat.
What score do you need on the SHSAT to get into Brooklyn Latin in 2025?
The cutoff score for Brooklyn Latin in 2025 was 496. For the 2023-2024 school year, there were 17,529 applicants for 215 seats, an average of 82 applications per seat.
Is 600 a good SHSAT score?
600 is an excellent SHSAT score that would guarantee admission to any of the Specialized High Schools.
What is a perfect SHSAT score?
The maximum score on each section is usually around 350, and the maximum composite score is usually around 700; however, the actual maximum and minimum scores change from year to year.
What is the minimum score to pass the SHSAT?
There is no single passing score on the SHSAT. Read more about each high school’s cutoff score at the top of this page.