The Brooklyn Prep Community

Our school is organized to ensure that high academic standards are accompanied by intensive individual support. Teachers work together on interdisciplinary grade level teams and are jointly responsible for the students they serve. Every student has an advisor who runs a special class for about 15 students and whose special responsibility is to know each advisee well. Class size is limited to about 25 in all our classes with two teachers in Collaborative Team Teaching classes, to maximize the attention that teachers can give to individual students.

Underlying the program at Brooklyn Prep are the following beliefs:
  • Intelligence is something that is developed through focused, efficient effort.
  • Students develop a sense of both safety and self-efficacy by belonging to a community that needs and values their effort and contribution and that encourages them to take academic risks without fear of ridicule.
  • Humans remember more of what they study when they learn by doing and by teaching others. Therefore, students need opportunities to apply concepts, skills and information to real-life situations through projects, service learning, publishing and internships.
  • Adolescents learn better when they have choice – over the books they read, the topics they research, and the projects through which they demonstrate mastery.
  • Multiple forms of assessment help teachers meet students’ needs and track their progress towards mastery as well as giving students different ways to demonstrate their mastery.
  • Reading and writing are the foundation for negotiating the outside world as well as sources of pleasure and self-discovery and are part of every subject and class.
Brooklyn Prep is supported by an active parent association and the following valued partners:
  • Lead Partner: The Institute for Student Achievement
  • Corporate Partner: Digitas
  • Community Partners:  St. Nicholas Neighborhood Preservation; Camelot; Park Slope Mental Health Center; Junior Achievement; New York City Commission on Human Rights
  • Arts Partners: Brooklyn Academy of Music; ENACT; Teachers and Writers; Student Press Initiative
  • Academic Partners: Edu-Change; City University of New York; College Now; New York City College of Technology; Teachers College