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Brooklyn Technical High School
An engineering school at university scale, organised around chosen majors.
Where it is
Fort Greene, Brooklyn — a landmark building the size of a city block, steps from Fort Greene Park.
How big it is
About 5,800 students — the largest of the eight by far, and among the largest high schools in the country.
Brooklyn Tech runs like a small university. After a common foundation, every student chooses a major — from aerospace and civil engineering to law and society or media — and spends the upper years in it, with facilities (labs, shops, studios) that only this scale can justify. No other specialized school offers that structure.
The size cuts both ways. It buys choice — of majors, teams, and thirty-odd AP courses — and it demands self-direction, because in a school of nearly six thousand nobody is watching whether you found your niche. Its cutoff sits near the bottom of the table, which makes it many strong students' realistic first offer.
The cutoff, with its year attached
"2026 Admissions" means the exam sat in Fall 2025 — a finished cycle, published by NYC Public Schools. The Fall 2026 exam decides 2027 Admissions, and its cutoffs do not exist yet. A cutoff is the score of the LAST student admitted — an output of one year's applicants and seats, not a pass mark anyone set.
Lowest qualifying score, 2026 Admissions (8th grade)
506
Source: NYC Public Schools, checked 2026-08-17 · NYC Public Schools ↗ · How cutoffs actually work →
How a seat here is actually won
- One exam, nothing else. No grades, essays, interviews or attendance records — admission to this school is decided by the SHSAT alone, for 8th graders and first-time 9th graders who live in NYC.
- Rank by real preference. Offers walk down the citywide score list, each student getting the highest school on their OWN ranked list with a seat left — putting this school lower 'to be safe' can only cost you a seat you would have won.
- Registration closes weeks before the test and is not automatic. The dates, and the three ways to register, are on the test-date page.
Registration deadline and dates →Sit a free full-length practice test →
The official Fall 2026 SHSAT will be computer-adaptive. SHSATus currently provides fixed-form digital practice based on DOE-published content areas and question types. It does not reproduce the DOE's adaptive item-selection or scoring algorithm.
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