Academics
Charter schools are public schools which receive public funds though operate independently from local school boards. Bronx Prep is accountable to the SUNY Charter Schools Institute and the charter is up for renewal every five years. Students for Bronx Prep are selected through a lottery system and enter Bronx Prep as fifth graders. Selected students attend middle school at Bronx Prep for grades 5-8, and then, upon successful completion of requirements, are promoted to Bronx Prep's high school.
The high school at Bronx Prep has many similarities to other New York City public high schools. Students at Bronx Prep take Regents exams in all of their core subjects. High school students, called visionaries and luminaries, attend college trips across the country. Bronx Prep also offers Advanced Placement courses, including AP Calculus AB, AP English-Language, AP English-Literature, AP Spanish-Language, AP Biology and AP Statistics.
One hundred percent of Bronx Prep's first high school graduating class, in 2007, were accepted to four-year colleges. The colleges to which these students earned admission include: Georgetown, NYU, Holy Cross, Syracuse, Fordham, SUNY-Albany, CUNY-City College, Hunter College and Lehman College.
The second graduating class continued this record of success by earning admission to Harvard, Stanford, NYU, and many other prestigious colleges and universities. The third graduating class was successful in earning admission to colleges and universities such as University of Virginia, Tufts, University of Rochester, Fordham, Wellesley College. Additional marks of success include winning the CSAL middle school boys basketball championship, success at the 2007 National Junior Forensics League Middle School National Championships, and a New York state champion speaker.
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