The Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance is a public high school that opened in September 2009. Serving students in grades 9 through 12, the school has an academic focus towards college preparation and global competitiveness. It has partnerships with JP Morgan Chase, The New York City Academy of Finance Advisory Board and the office of Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn's Borough President. Paid summer internships for juniors and seniors, tuition-free college courses and an opportunity to learn Chinese are all available through the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance. The facility shares a campus with two middle schools: M.S. 57, The Ron Brown Academy and M.S. 385, The School of Business, Finance and Entrepreneurship.
Yeshiva Meor Hatalmud is a Jewish elementary school. Their program is centered around the study of Jewish religious texts. Please call them to inquire about their school and the programs they offer.
The Berekeley-Carroll school is a college preparatory day school for children ages pre-K through 12th grade. It has been in Park Slope for more than 100 years. At both the lower school on Carroll Street and the upper and middle school on Lincoln Place, the school offers numerous extracurricular activities as well as summer programs and day camps. The school also features a full athletic center, including a 75-foot pool.
PS 295 is a studio school for arts and culture located between the neighborhoods of Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and Park Slope on 18th Street in Brooklyn. The school is made up of a diverse community of families working to provide students a comprehensive education enriched by a curriculum emphasizing the arts. The school offers numerous programs for kids, including Pre-K, kindergarten and first through fifth grade classes. The school also has numerous special classes, including art, science and drama. Check the school's website for details on its programs or for a schedule of events.
Ideas is a non-profit drama program for people of all ages with special needs. Interactive drama is used to educate and teach awareness. All programs are fee-for service, and the cost is negotiable. Visit the website for more information.
Bas Meir is an Orthodox Jewish school whose education is based around a strong understanding of Jewish religious texts. Please call for more information.
Marcus Garvey Elementary School is a public school serving students in Pre-K through grade five. The School's principal is Valerie Taylor. The majority of its students come from the surrounding neighborhood.
The school's enrollment is 366 students. Some of the special programs offered at Marcus Garvey Elementary include small group literacy and math classes, technology enrichment, hands-on science, a reading buddy program and a stock market program.
Marcus Garvey Elementary has an active PTA and offers a lot of academic challenges and cultural enrichment.
Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School (13K412), known as "BCAM," focuses on media arts and technology. The school has a student-run television channel called BCAMTV and a boys and girls basketball team. BCAM also partners with a number of local community arts and civic organizations, such as the Bedford-Stuyvesant YMCA, Black Public Media, Pratt Institute of Art, Reel Works and John Jay University. The school is housed on the third floor of a building with three other schools. The principal is James O'Brian and the parent coordinator is Monique Mayard.
M.S. 27 is a public middle school that occupies the first and second floors of a large, four-story school building on the corner of Gates and Stuyvesant avenues. (The building was under construction when we visited.) The school serves grades 6 through 8, with an academic focus on math and science. Student enrollment is 391. In addition to math and science as a focus, the school also offers vocational education, special education, speech/language pathologists, "extended day" programs and ESL courses.
At the end of Henry Street in Carroll Gardens is a large brick school undergoing exterior repairs. Inside, there is still much learning going on. This location is actually home to two schools: P.S. 146, the Brooklyn New School, for grades pre-K through 5; and the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, for grades 6 through 12.
P.S. 26 is a school that serves grades pre-K through fifth. The school's principal is Michele Ashley, and it's a winner of the State Business Council 2003 Pathfinder Award, an honor given by the Business Council to recognize schools that show a marked improvement from one year to the next on their students' state test scores. Named after Olympic track star and African-American civil rights advocate Jesse Owens, P.S. 26 offers various after-school programs and annual spring festivals and fashion shows.
The Kingsley School for Child Development offers special education for children ages three to five. Located on a bustling strip of Atlantic Avenue, the center is centrally located and close to trains and services. The Kingsley School is a fully funded non-profit organization, so if a child is evaluated and accepted they receive their education free of charge.
Yeshiva Beis Meir is an all-male secondary school. Their educational program follows the Jewish Orthodox tradition and centers around a thorough understanding of religious scripture. Please contact them if you would like more information about the school.
Yeshiva Torah Temimah is an Orthodox yeshiva. This is its Brooklyn branch location. It has another location in New Jersey. It provides religious and secular single-sex education to male students. Studies include literature, history, classical Jewish literature, mathematics, language arts and sciences.