6 made it out of 220 and according to Eva Moskowitz that’s great — really?
Six eighth grade students at Eva Moskowitz’s charter chain Success Academy passed the examination for New York City’s elite high schools. This is the first time that any student from Success Academy has passed the rigorous exam in the three years that she had students in this grade.
Moskowitz offered this information in a meeting with the New York Daily News editorial board.
Six students out of 54 Success Academy eighth-graders who took the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test were offered seats in 2016 at one of the elite high schools that rely on the test, like Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech or Bronx Science, Moskowitz said in a wide-ranging interview with the Daily News Editorial Board.
That’s up from zero kids who gained seats in 2014 and 2015.
The performance is below the city average acceptance rate of nearly 19%. However, all of the Success Academy kids who took the test…
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