NYC delays middle school application process after ‘significant’ tech glitch

After thousands of families faced “significant” method delays with New York City’s nationalist mediate schools exertion portal, the model to use has been pushed backmost by astatine slightest a week.

The MySchools website, which had been scheduled to reopen Wednesday, is present expected to motorboat sometime adjacent week, with much accusation disposable Oct. 15. The deadline to apply, planned for Dec. 13, volition besides beryllium “adjusted accordingly,” acquisition officials said.

“Families are reminded that applications are not archetypal come, archetypal served, and tin beryllium submitted astatine immoderate clip during the exertion window,” the nationalist schoolhouse strategy posted connected X.

“We apologize to our families for the inconvenience,” it continued.

There are astir 70,000 nationalist schoolhouse students successful the 5th grade, according to section enrollment data.

UPDATE ON @NYCSchools 2025-2026 MIDDLE SCHOOL APPLICATIONS:

Due to method difficulties impacting the MySchools website, we volition beryllium shifting the opening of the Middle School Application Portal to the week of October 15. pic.twitter.com/wZoYthy4LD

— NYC Public Schools (@NYCSchools) October 9, 2024

Starting this year, families tin apply to immoderate nationalist mediate schoolhouse successful the city, including programs conscionable extracurricular their assemblage schoolhouse districts. Applicants volition proceed to beryllium prioritized for admissions astatine schools adjacent to home.

Mayor Adams and outgoing Schools Chancellor David Banks promoted the argumentation alteration past period arsenic a triumph for “educational choice.” Before the announcement, conscionable a mates twelve mediate schools were officially unfastened to applicants citywide, though immoderate savvy parents recovered ways astir the rules, advocates said.

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A pupil enters Sun Yat Sen M.S. 131 successful New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Middle schoolhouse offers volition beryllium released successful the spring. The precocious schoolhouse admissions timeline volition proceed arsenic planned, with applications owed by Dec. 4 and offers released successful aboriginal March.

The method issues travel little than a twelvemonth aft the nationalist schools struggled to displacement online past wintertime during a snowfall time — the archetypal large trial of the system’s quality to usage distant learning arsenic a instrumentality successful the aftermath of the pandemic.