Townsend Harris High School is a top rated, public school located in FLUSHING, NY. It has 1,322 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 15 to 1. ing to state test scores, 99% of students are at least proficient in math and 79% in reading.
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The original school boasts many notable alumni, including Nobel Prize winners Herbert Hauptman, Julian Schwinger and Kenneth Arrow, Pulitzer Prize Winners Herman Wouk, Ira Gershwin, Richard Rogers, Lawrence Cremin and Frank Loesser and Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients Jonas Salk and Eugene Lang.
Students fall into a screened admissions groups based on the average of their final eighth-grade core course grades (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies). This average must fall into the top percentage of students citywide or at a student's school in order to fall within a certain admissions group.
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Townsend Harris High School 2024 Rankings Townsend Harris High School is ranked #78 in the National Rankings. Schools are ranked on their performance on state-required tests, graduation and how well they prepare students for college. Read more about how we rank the Best High Schools.
The New York City high schools with the highest amount of applicants in 2021. Some schools have acceptance rates similar to Ivy League colleges — like Townsend Harris High School which admits 6 percent of applicants.
Over 15,400 students compete for approximately 270 seats in the freshman class each year based on their middle school grades, standardized test scores and attendance records. Admission is available to all New York City residents in the 8th grade.