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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious about Elementary + Middle schools as well. Are there certain school neighborhoods that are just better in Brooklyn and Manhattan? We are just starting a "house" hunt, and would really like to make sure our kids get into good public schools. Are there other resources that are helpful? [/quote]

Yes. Districts 2 and 3 in Manhattan. District 24 and 25 in queens (maybe 26?)  I’m sure some in Brooklyn but I am not as familiar. I’m a middle school teacher in NYC.[/quote]

District 15 in Brooklyn is good for Middle School.

As everyone has said, the public school application process is very complicated. The DOE is moving towards lotteries for everything, it seems. So where you live might not guarantee your kid a spot at the Elementary school just down the block. I think D15 was about to implement widening the zones around less popular schools and shrinking the ones around the top ones, but paused this due to the pandemic.

We are in the Middle School application process. For MS, you rank up to 12 schools on a list and hopefully your lottery number is good enough to get one of top picks. D15 has 11 Middle Schools and most are considered good (I think a new one is opening up in Red Hook). You can also put Citywides and Borough-wides on the list (meaning schools open to applicants across NYC or limited to just that borough; we added a Citywide). This is the first year that they are letting parents see their lottery numbers (they made them public before applications were due). We're in the 29th percentile so we have a shot of getting something on our list. But if you get a bad lottery number you might not get anything on your list and will be assigned a set at the nearest school with available seats - meaning, a school few students want to go to. You can also try your luck applying to charters (we are applying to a few), parochial, or private.

The High School application process looks horrific. Ive just started studying the process, knowing that it is constantly changing, just so that i have some grounding in it. If we get a spot in a charter that runs through High School we will likely give up our public school offer.[/quote]

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