This from the New York Daily News:

One of the city’s most coveted high schools initially earned a C
under the Education Department’s new grading system but was able to
prove that it really deserved a B, said Randy Asher, the principal of
Brooklyn Technical High School.

Even after boosting its grade,
the B still gives Brooklyn Tech the poorest showing so far among nine
top schools where students need high grades or scores to enroll.

Seven
other prestigious schools got A’s. An eighth, Bard High School for
Early College in Long Island City [note: it’s on East Houston Street in Manhatta, actually] is still under review.

Brooklyn
Tech was one of 23 whose grades were still "under review" last week
when Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein released the
grades.

The problem, Asher said, were students whose August
graduations weren’t submitted in time to be counted toward the school’s
graduation rate – a major factor in high school grades…