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Asian kids dominate admission to city’s elite high schools

Once again, Asians kids dominated the annual stampede for admission to the city’s eight elite high schools for the upcoming academic year, according to newly released Department of Education data.

Of the 5,078 jubilant eighth-graders who received acceptance letters this week — out of 27,853 total applicants — 52.5 percent were Asian, the DOE reported on Thursday.

White students lagged well behind their Asian peers, comprising just 28 percent of those who passed the ultra-competitive process.

Hispanic students comprised 6.5 percent of the total and black kids just 3.8 percent. Multi-racial applicants made up 1.3 percent of those admitted and 7.4 percent were of unknown background, according to the data. Native Americans registered 0.5 percent of the total.

The specialized schools — Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech, Stuyvesant HS, Staten Island Tech, HS of American Studies at Lehman College, Brooklyn Latin, HS for Math, Science and Engineering at City College and Queens HS for the Sciences at Queens College — all base admission on a single entrance test.

Asian students also had the highest acceptance rate by race at 31.9 percent. Of 8,345 Asian applicants — the most of any group by far — 2,664 won acceptance to an elite school.