Motley NYC

Find the right New York City school, and the neighborhood around it. Motley NYC answers families' questions from our data on all 262 NYC neighborhoods and on public, charter and private K-12 schools across the five boroughs.

What you can ask:

• Which neighborhoods fit what matters to your family, ranked by your priorities or compared side by side
• A plain-language fit summary for any neighborhood, with safety and health indicators, playgrounds, libraries, accessible subway stations and kids' activities nearby
• The places inside a neighborhood, by name, street or kind: its schools, playgrounds, libraries, subway stations, pediatricians and groceries
• Which elementary school is zoned for an address
• Schools by borough, district, grade level, type, admission method or program focus, or one school by name
• How NYC admissions works from 3-K through high school (zoned, screened, audition, SHSAT, lotteries and more) and what each method asks of a family
• How a specific school admits students: its method, programs, seats, and applicant counts where NYC publishes them
• Which applications are coming for each child's grade, and when
• How each neighborhood score is computed, and lists picked by a stated rule

What to know:

• New York City only.
• No account or sign-in. Every tool only reads; nothing is saved or changed.
• To place an address, the address you type is sent to NYC Planning's GeoSearch.
• We never estimate a family's odds of admission. Seats and applicant counts come from NYC MySchools; the competitiveness band beside them is our own reading, not a DOE rating.
• Neighborhood scores carry the date they were computed. Admission dates are the city's published dates where it has announced them; otherwise we give the usual window and say so.
• Neighborhood rankings, place searches and school searches show as cards, and answers link to each neighborhood's and school's page on motley.nyc.