Tokyo public high schools, April 2027 entry: how report-card points and the exam add up

Tokyo's Board of Education has published the rules for entering a metropolitan high school (都立高校, toritsu kōkō) in April 2027. In the main February round (学力検査に基づく選抜 第一次募集, the selection based on a written exam, first recruitment), a student's total is built from three parts: the written exam, report-card points sent by the junior high school (調査書点, chōsasho-ten, which families call 内申, naishin), and an English speaking test.

What the report card counts

• The junior high writes the third-year grades as of 31 December 2026. The guidelines tell it to take the first and second terms of the third year fully into account (for a two-term school, the first term and the second term up to 31 December).
• Each subject gets a grade from 5 to 1 (評定, hyōtei) in nine subjects: Japanese, social studies, math, science, music, art, health and PE, technology and home economics, and English.
• To turn the grades into points, the high school counts the grade once for each subject it tests in writing and twice for each subject it does not test. Full-time courses test five subjects (Japanese, math, English, social studies, science), so the other four count double. Arts and PE departments test only Japanese, math and English.

How the total is built

• Exam score plus report-card points: 1,000 points at most.
• The speaking test adds up to 20 points, for a total (総合得点) of 1,020.
• Full-time courses use an exam-to-report ratio of 7:3 in principle; arts and PE departments use 6:4. Some schools work out each candidate's total at both 7:3 and 10:0 and use the higher one. Which schools do that is in the guidelines' table of methods (別表4).
• The guidelines' worked example: five subjects at 100 points each (500) are converted to 700, the report-card points to 300, and the speaking test to 20, for 1,020. A school that also holds an interview, essay or practical test adds those marks on top.

The English speaking test

The junior-high speaking test (中学校英語スピーキングテスト, ESAT-J YEAR 3) is graded A to F, which become 20, 16, 12, 8, 4 or 0 points. It counts, in principle, only at schools that hold the English written exam.

A student who was not at a Tokyo public junior high on the test day, including one who transferred in after its sign-up period closed, is given a provisional result worked out from the English exam scores of the candidates ranked around them (normally at least five above and five below). A student at a Tokyo public junior high who could not sit it needs the board's approval form (措置申請承認書); without one, no points are added.

If your child came from a school abroad

For a student who came back from abroad on or after 1 April 2026 and joined from a local school there, the junior high fills in only what it can and attaches a copy of the overseas school's records (or a note explaining why it cannot). Where a subject could not be graded, the report shows a slash, and the high school works out the points from other material such as the exam score.

April 2027 dates, full-time first round

Step	Date
Online entry	Fri 18 Dec 2026 – Thu 4 Feb 2027, 17:00
Papers must arrive (trackable mail)	Fri 29 Jan – Thu 4 Feb 2027
Withdraw to change school (once)	Wed 10 Feb 2027, 9:00–15:00
Resubmit	Fri 12 Feb 2027, 9:00–12:00
Written exam	Sun 21 Feb 2027, gather by 8:30
Results	Mon 1 Mar 2027, 8:30 online, 9:30 at the school
Enrolment steps	1 Mar 9:30–15:30 and 2 Mar 9:00–12:00

For a full-time course the exam fee (入学考査料) is 2,200 yen. A student who passes submits the enrolment pledge (入学確約書) in the enrolment window and pays the 5,650-yen admission fee within five days counted from the day after results. Not submitting the pledge counts as giving up the place.

This article explains the rule. It does not predict a result. Ask the junior high which grades it will report, and check the target school's own method in the guidelines.