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Brooklyn Frontiers High School

Overview written by the school: Brooklyn Frontiers High School serves entering ninth grade students who have fallen behind their peers by two or more years. We offer a personalized educational experience for students, recognizing the unique strengths and needs of each individual. The academic program is designed to challenge each learner and is implemented in a supportive environment that emphasizes the value of critical thinking skills, personal relationships, and student self-advocacy. We are committed to ensuring that students stretch their goals beyond graduation and gain the skills and self-confidence to successfully transition to college and careers.

School Performance

Graduation Rate: No data (at the end of the school year before last, the percent of students who graduated "on time" by earning a diploma four years after they entered 9th grade).
Daily Attendance Rate: 73.000002% of the school's students in the school year before last.
Percentage of Students Enough Variety: 92.000002% students feel that this school offers a wide enough variety of programs, classes, and activities to keep them interested in school.

Percentage of Students Safe: 97.000003% students feel safe in the hallways, bathrooms, locker room and cafeteria. (Student opinions on school safety, as reported on the NYC School Survey.)

Programs offered

Program 1: Brooklyn Frontiers High School
Code: L69A

Interest: Humanities & Interdisciplinary
Method: Transfer

Seats 9 GE: 54
Grade 9 GE filled flag: N/A - transfer school
Grade 9 GE applicants: 30
Grade 9 GE applicants per seat: 1
Seats 9 SWD: 11
Grade 9 SWD filled flag: N/A - transfer school
Grade 9 SWD applicants: 15
Grade 9 SWD applicants per seat: 1
Eligibility: Open only to 15-16-year-old New York City residents entering high school for the first time. Students must have a record of being held back two times in elementary and/or middle school.

Seats 10: 0

Activities

Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular activities and clubs offered by the school that do not fall under one of the Sports categories (PSAL Sports or School Sports): No data
PSAL Sports Boys
Male PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: Basketball
PSAL Sports Girls
Female PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: No data
PSAL Sports Coed
Co-ed PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: No data
School Sports
Sports offered by the school outside PSAL (Public School Athletics League): No data
Flag for female only school: No data
Flag for male only school: No data

Other info

Total students: 186
Start time: 8:20am
End time: 2:40pm

Final grades: 9 to 12

Language classes: French
Advancedplacement courses: AP Statistics, AP Psychology, AP Environmental Science

Transfer: 1

School accessibility description: Not Accessible

More info

Borough: Brooklyn
NTA: DUMBO-Vinegar Hill-Downtown Brooklyn-Boerum Hill
Neighborhood: DUMBO-Downtown Brooklyn

School Number: K520

Community board: 302
Council district: 33
Census tract: 43
BIN: 3000533
BBL: 3001690009

About Brooklyn Frontiers High School

Contacts

Address: 112 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 (40.690007,-73.989369)
Latitude: 40.690145
Longitude: -73.989132
Phone number: 718-722-4727
Fax number: 718-722-7919
School email: [email protected]
Website: www.brooklynfrontiers.org
Subway lines near the school: 2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall; A, C, F, R to Jay St-MetroTech; B, Q to DeKalb Ave; G to Hoyt & Schermerhorn
Bus lines near the school: B103, B25, B26, B38, B41, B45, B52, B54, B57, B61, B62, B63, B65, B67

Hotels near Brooklyn Frontiers High School

District Borough Number: 
15K423
Academic opportunities: 

Partnership with Good Shepherd Services: coaches for students to create personalized academic plans and guidance

Small classes, many co-taught by two teachers

Many opportunities for tutoring and support, both during the day and after-school

Paid Learning to Work Internships

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