Summer 2025 Discovery Program Information
The Discovery Program will take place at the eight testing Specialized High Schools in summer 2025. Summer Discovery programs are three to five weeks long and provide an opportunity for certain disadvantaged students who scored within a certain range on the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT) to attend a Specialized High School starting fall 2025.
Participation in the Discovery Program is by invitation only. Only students who receive an invitation to apply to Discovery in their offer letter in March 2025 can apply for the summer 2025 Discovery program. Students who submits a Discovery application, and are determined to be eligible, can only participate in Discovery at the school that they are invited to apply to on their offer letter; students cannot switch to a different Discovery program.
If your child did not receive an invitation to apply to Discovery in their offer letter, then your child cannot apply to or participate in the program.
If your child has Discovery information in their SHSAT results section of their offer letter, please follow the instructions in that letter to submit your child’s Discovery application. The deadline for families to submit the application is April 5, 2025.
| Discovery Program | Dates | Weekly Schedule | Program Completion Requirements | Program Contact |
| Brooklyn Technical High School (13K430) | July 7 - August 7 | Monday - Thursday 9:00AM - 12:00PM | 90% attendance, proficiency achieved in all courses, and recommendation by summer Discovery teachers | Jeffrey Park |
| The Bronx High School of Science (10X445) | July 1 - July 31 | Monday - Friday 8:30 am - 12:30 pm | 90% attendance rate and 90% successful completion of assignments | Rebecca Barreras |
| The Brooklyn Latin School (14K449) | July 7 - August 11 | Monday - Thursday | 90% attendance, active participation in classroom activities, pass in all classes and recommended by summer Discovery teachers and staff. | Wenceslao Yee |
| High School of American Studies at Lehman College (10X696) | July 1- July 31 | Monday - Thursday | 90% attendance rate and 90% completion of assignments | Paula Fiore |
| High School for Math, Science, and Engineering at City College (HSMSE) (05M692) | July 7 - August 11 | Monday - Friday 8:00am -1:30pm | 90% attendance rate and 90% completion of assignments | Ryan Barley or Sean Dolcy |
| Queens High School for the Sciences at York College (28Q687) | June 27- July 17 | Monday - Friday
| Classwork, participation and assessments demonstrate proficiency in ELA and math homework completed daily | Debbie Miketta |
| Staten Island Technical High School (31R605) | July 1 - July 31 | Monday - Thursday | 90% attendance rate and 90% completion of assignments | John Davis or Alexis Kirschbaum |
| Stuyvesant High School (02M475) | July 7 - August 7 (tentative) | Monday - Thursday | 90% Attendance Rate
90% Completion of Assignments | Jennifer Suri |
Who is Eligible For The Discovery Program
To be eligible for Discovery:
- A student must attend a high-poverty public school or - if they attend a non-public school or are homeschooled - they must live in a high-poverty area.
- A high-poverty public school is a school whose Economic Need Index (ENI) is 60% or higher. Read more about the ENI on page 4 of Diversity in New York City Public Schools. To see each public school’s ENI percentage, visit School Performance Dashboard.
- A high-poverty area is one where, per the US Census’s most recent American Community Survey, at least 60% of families in the student’s home census tract live below the poverty line. For further information, please visit, data.census.gov.
- A students must be certified as individually disadvantaged, which means that if they meet the above requirement, they must also meet at least one of the following requirements:
- The family receives assistance from the Human Resources Administration (welfare or SNAP benefits).
- The child is in foster care, is a ward of the state, or is a Student in Temporary Housing as defined by McKinney-Vento.
- The child is an English Language Learner or a former English Language Learner within the previous two (2) school years and enrolled in a DOE school for the first time within the last four years.
- The family earns less than or equal to the reduced-price lunch income threshold (based on household size) in the USDA Food and Nutrition Service Income Eligibility Guidelines.