Honor Academy Admission Criteria
Honor Academy Screened Admissions
Screened programs will admit the top-performing applicants from across each middle school and citywide. Applicants to screened high schools will be in groups based on their final seventh-grade core course grades. Students will be admitted to screened programs in group order, starting with students in group one.
- Students will be in group one if the average of their final seventh-grade core course grades falls in the highest 15% of their school or citywide, and that average is at least a 90.
- Students will be in group two if they are not in group one, the average falls in the highest 30% of their school or citywide, and that average is at least 80.
- Students will be in group three if they are not in groups one or two, and the average falls in the highest 50% of their school or citywide, and that average is at least a 70.
- Students will be in group four if they are not in groups one, two, or three, and their average falls in the highest 70% of their school or citywide, and that average is at least 65.
- All other students will be in group five.
If there are more applicants in group one than available seats, students from group one will be randomly selected for seats using the random number linked to each applicant’s application. If all students in group one can be accommodated at a school, students in group two will be considered next; if there are more applicants in group two than the remaining available seats, then students in group two will be randomly selected for available seats. This will continue with subsequent groups until all seats are filled.
Applicants can see which screened admissions group they are in on their MySchools profile. On the dashboard, click on “Edit profile” just above your child’s name. Scroll down to see the screened admissions group.
Ninth-grade applicants to tenth-grade seats will be grouped based on their final eighth-grade grades.