Want your kid to get into a selective public high school? Better get them into a competitive middle school first.
New data obtained by The Post shows that nearly all the top feeder schools for Stuyvesant, Brooklyn Tech, Bronx Science and La Guardia high schools are selective-entry schools themselves.
From the list of 19 stand-outs, two Brooklyn middle schools in particular — IS 187 in Borough Park and IS 239 in Coney Island — got a huge chunk of their students accepted at the city’s top-tier high schools for the past three years.
Last year, IS 187 got 226 of its eighth-graders offers from Brooklyn Tech and Stuyvesant.
IS 239, also known as the Mark Twain School for the Gifted & Talented, got 198 of its eighth-graders accepted at Brooklyn Tech and Stuyvesant in 2012.
Its students also got dozens of offers from Manhattan’s famous performing- arts school, La Guardia, in recent years.
The two nonselective middle schools that send significant numbers of students to any of the four original “specialized” high schools are in Queens: JHS 74 in Bayside and JHS 216 in Fresh Meadows.
Four of the top five feeder schools to Bronx Science HS are also in Queens.
Other top-notch neighborhood schools, which do contain accelerated programs, however, include JHS 167 on the Upper East Side — which feeds La Guardia — and JHS 234 in Gravesend, which caters to Brooklyn Tech.
Data on feeder schools for the city’s other specialized high schools — including Brooklyn Latin and HS of American Studies at Lehman College — was not included in The Post’s analysis.