Graduation requirements
Welcome to middle school admissions! Here's how to get started
- Visit NYC Middle School Admissions Guide: https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enroll-grade-by-grade/middle-school/nyc-middle-school-admissions-guide
- Sign up for our middle school admissions email list: https://www.scho
ols.nyc.gov/sign-up - Explore school options online in the MySchools middle school directory: https://www.myschools.nyc/en/schools/middle-school/
- Visit our website, where they can find the latest updates: https://www.schools.nyc.gov/enrollment/enroll-grade-by-grade/middle-school
- Visit schools and attend the middle school district fairs.
- Apply to middle schools once the process starts
Happening Next
- The application for students entering middle school in fall 2021 closed on February 23, 2021.
- Offers will be available in the spring.
Middle School Offer Letters:
In the spring, students get their middle school offers. All applicants get a middle school offer; most students get an offer to attend one of the programs ranked on their middle school application, but it is not guaranteed. Your child's offer letter will also include a list of programs where they’ve been waitlisted.
- Your child is automatically on the waitlist for any program that you listed higher on their application than the program where they received an offer. For example, if your child received an offer to your third-choice program, they are automatically waitlisted at your first-choice and second-choice programs.
- After initial offers are made and waitlists open, you can add your child to additional waitlists. (However, please note that your child's best chance of getting an offer to any program is to include it as a choice on their original application.)
- You can also check your child's place on the waitlist for any school, in real time.
- Waitlist offers are made based on seat availability, as well as the same admissions priorities and admissions methods described on this page and detailed in MySchools.
- Schools will be in touch directly if a seat opens up and they can make your child a waitlist offer.
Learn more on our Waitlists page and see how waitlists worked last year by watching the tutorial that follows: https://vimeo.com412723939
