High School Guided Search

You may not apply to high school unless you live in New York City.

However, you may explore your options on this website.

If you move to the city over the summer, you may take the specialized high school exam or audition for LaGuardia High School in late August.

You may apply through the regular high school application process in November. We will only show you schools that have 10th grade seats available.

Transfer alternative schools are designed to help older students get back on track. If you have dropped out or are behind on credits, we will only show you these schools.

Students with disabilities are entitled to apply to any school, and all schools are required to provide special education services.

However, some are more welcoming than others, and some are more successful working with students with disabilities. If you click here, we will only show schools where at least 15 percent of students have IEPS and most of them graduate on time (based on 2018-19 data, the most recent data prior to the beginning of the pandemic).

All schools offer English as a Second Language. We will only show you the ones that are specially designed for recent immigrants or students who are learning English.