2017 NYC High School Directory with Admissions Requirements

New York City's Department of Education published this directory of schools for the 2017 academic year. The dataset catalogs admissions priorities, eligibility criteria, and applicant numbers for grade 9. It was provided by the City of New York and last updated on the platform in November 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyze admissionspriority49, admissionspriority71, and admissionspriority76 to model school selection hierarchies for different student groups.
• Study grade9geapplicants6 and grade9swdapplicants8 to assess application volume disparities between general education and students with disabilities.
• Map school locations and accessibility using directions7 and directions9 columns for geographic analysis.
• Model eligibility3 and requirement fields (e.g., requirement1_5, requirement12_1) to understand barriers to entry for specific programs.
• Investigate program interests via interest2, interest5, and interest8 columns to identify popular specializations among applicants.

Strengths

• Contains 30 distinct columns detailing admissions rules and applicant statistics.
• Officially sourced from the NYC Department of Education via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Limitations

• Dataset scope is limited to a single year (2017), offering no longitudinal view.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing assessment of data completeness or value distribution.
• Critical metrics like total row count and geographic granularity are unknown.

Provenance

Source

data.cityofnewyork.us, representing the City of New York.

Collection Method

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Time Range

2017 academic year.

Freshness

Platform record was updated in 2024, but the underlying data covers the 2017 academic year.

Geography

New York City, New York, USA.