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SHSAT cutoffs · Queens

Queens High School for the Sciences at York College

531SHSAT cutoff for fall 2026 (up 13 from 2025)

A small science school on the York College campus in Jamaica. Its cutoff has sat near Bronx Science's for years.

2021–2026

Between 515 and 531

  1. 2021515
  2. 2022523
  3. 2023527
  4. 2024524
  5. 2025518
  6. 2026531

The cutoff is the lowest composite score, out of 800, that got an offer to Queens Science that year. It isn't set in advance: it falls wherever the seats run out, after students are placed in order of score and by the schools they ranked.

So aim above the range, not at this year's number. A score that just clears one year can miss the next.

What it takes

Roughly how many right answers

On our approximate scoring curve, 531 takes about 39 of 50 right in each section. The curve is steep at the top, so every extra question there counts for more.

The Department of Education doesn't publish the raw-to-scaled conversion, so treat that as a ballpark. Try your own numbers in the SHSAT score calculator.

Compare

All eight schools

Nearest cutoffs: HSMSE (539) and Bronx Science (525).

SHSAT cutoff scores by school and year of admission
School202620252024202320222021
Stuyvesant561556561561563559
HSMSE539526542518532515
Queens Science531518524527523515
Bronx Science525518526521524517
Staten Island Tech517527519521527525
American Studies507504514510516502
Brooklyn Tech506505507503506493
Brooklyn Latin495496492493497481

A year is the fall a student starts high school: 2026 means the test taken in fall 2025. Cutoffs are the lowest score admitted in that year's offers, as compiled by NYC prep sites (for example this 2012–2026 table). We list a number only when at least two sources agree on it. LaGuardia admits by audition, not the SHSAT.

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