NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT), the only criterion for admissions to eight of the nine New York City Specialized High Schools, launches its biggest ...

This past September, in keeping with a campaign promise by Mayor de Blasio to address the underrepresentation of African-American and Latino students in the city’s specialized high schools, the ...

The SHSAT, or Specialized High School Admissions Test, is the test that students take to try and get into one of the city's prestigious specialized high schools. What is a specialized high school?

When I was younger, I dreamed of going to the High School of American Studies, one of the city’s eight specialized high schools, where admission is based solely on a student’s performance on a single ...