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Staten Island Technical High School
A tech-and-engineering school with a strong community identity on the island.
Where it is
New Dorp, Staten Island — the only specialized school in the borough.
How big it is
About 1,400 students — mid-sized: big enough for range, small enough to be known.
Staten Island Tech pairs an engineering-and-technology programme with something the bigger schools cannot manufacture: a genuine neighbourhood identity. Most of the student body is from the island, families overlap for years, and the school operates as a community institution as much as an exam school.
For off-island families the commute is the honest first question — the express bus or ferry adds real time to every day. For island families it is the reverse: the one specialized school that does not cost two hours of daylight, with a cutoff that has climbed well up the table as more of the city has noticed it.
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)
517
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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