From the New York Times:

Diversity Lags as Students Are Matched With City Schools

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS MARCH 8, 2017

… Despite a push to increase the number of black and Latino students at the city’s most competitive high schools, the specialized schools, the number of those students who were offered seats for the fall was essentially unchanged from last year, according to the department.

Entry to eight specialized high schools is based entirely upon a single standardized test, and the schools have long been criticized for the demographic makeup of the students who are admitted. Only about 10 percent of offers from those schools were extended to black and Latino students, though those students make up about 68 percent of the school system.

… Nonetheless, the number of offers made to black and Latino students went from 530 last year to 524 this year.