North Broward Preparatory School (NBPS) is an accredited, college-preparatory, independent, non-sectarian school serving families of the pre-kindergarten through high school age groups in the Palm Beach and Broward counties of Southern Florida. Originally located in Lighthouse Point, FL, the school was founded in 1957 by Dr. James Montgomery. In the summer of 2004, over forty years later, NBPS relocated its Lighthouse Point campus to its current campus in Coconut Creek, FL. The Coconut Creek college style campus of nearly 80 acres (0.32 km2) consists of an upper, middle and lower school. Elise Ecoff currently serves as the school's headmaster.
There are approximately 1,400 students presently enrolled at NBPS. The student-to-teacher ratio is 8:1 with maximum class size limited to 22; (15 for pre-k through second grade). An active co-curricular and extracurricular program is offered at all age levels. Admission is competitive and students are accepted without regard to race, religion, or national origin. Financial aid is available at all grade levels. An academic honors scholarship program is also available for students in grades 9-12. North Broward Preparatory School is a founding member of the Meritas family of schools. NBPS boasts a 100 percent college-acceptance rate with recent graduates now attending prestigious colleges and universities such as Brown, UChicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, MIT, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Penn, Princeton and Stanford.
North Broward Preparatory School‘s 80+ acre, multi-building campus is located 15 miles north of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in Coconut Creek, Florida, USA. This campus houses Pre-K through 12th Grade classes as well as boarding facilities. A second boarding campus is located a short drive away in Coral Springs.
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