It sounds like the high school letters have been mailed. Anxious students and parents should be getting them soon. Here from Inside Schools:

As thousands of anxious 8th-graders and their families await word on high school placement, Chancellor Klein today announced that acceptance letters have been sent to more than 70,000 students, about 90% of those who applied for next September. For the remaining 8,500 students, who listed one of the schools originally slated for phase-out as one of their 12 choices, the matching process will be done again, this time including those schools.

The chancellor’s statement follows Friday’s court ruling in a lawsuit brought against the Department of Education by the teachers’ union, the NAACP, and parents, which held up the mailing of high school acceptance letters. The state Supreme Court ruled that the DOE failed to follow requirements in issuing Environment Impact Statements on how school closings would affect their communities.

Students who applied for schools originally slated for closure will receive two match letters at the same time, the “main round match and a ‘December match,’ which would be the school originally slated for phase-out,” the DOE said. The student will be able to choose between the two matches. Some 916 students listed one of the “phase-out” schools first on their application. (See the full statement after the jump.)

What will happen if last Friday’s court ruling is overturned on appeal and the schools actually close? In that case, the student will attend the school he or she was matched to in the main round, according to the DOE.