are nyc public schools bad?
Our school system as a whole is very, very bad. ... The SHSAT schools take the top 8th graders, those students who probably scored a 4 in math when they took their state tests in 7th grade. In NYC, there were 4,768 Asian, 542 Black, 1,464 Hispanic and 3,010 white students who scored a 4 on last year's states test.