Discovery Expansion: Elite New York High Schools to Offer 1 in 5 Slots to Those Below Cutoff

By 2020, 20 percent of the ninth-grade seats in every specialized high school will be set aside for Discovery students, according to city education officials. Currently, only 5 percent of the 4,000 ninth-grade seats are filled through Discovery.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/discovery-program-specialized-schools-nyc.html