Education
Among the public elementary and middle schools are charter schools, including Girls Prep for girls with a goal of graduating from college.
Lower East Side Preparatory High School is a second-chance school that enables students, aged 17–21, to obtain their high school diplomas. It is a bilingual Chinese-English school with a high proportion of Asian students.
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