Seven new public schools will open in Brooklyn this fall, bringing hundreds of seats for students from preschool through 12th grade, schools chancellor David C. Banks announced on Thursday.
The new schools will alleviate overcrowding and bring specialized education to Brooklyn’s students. The city’s first public Montessori school, P.S. 482 Albee Square Montessori School, will open its doors in District 13 in Downtown Brooklyn, and an accelerated high school — Bard High School Early College – is set to open in District 19 in East New York.
Banks said the schools — along with two more set to open in Queens and the Bronx — will fulfill the administration’s promise to “reimagine the student experience.”
“Since this pandemic we’ve said we’ve gotta do school differently,” he said. “We can’t just return to doing it the way we’ve always done it.”
Each school will offer a different specialty, Banks said, based on the needs and desires of the local community.
The unzoned P.S. 456 in District 15, for example, was developed in close partnership with P.S. 146 The Brooklyn New School and will be open to students borough-wide, with priority for low-income students. A new middle school, M.S. 428 Global Innovation Academy, is also set to open in District 15 — first in a temporary location before moving to its permanent home in 2026.
Three schools will open in the overcrowded District 20 in southern Brooklyn: P.S. 331 The School of Technology and Entrepreneurship, P.S. 413 The Joanne Seminara School of Law & Medicine, and M.S. 407 School of Technology, Arts, and Research.
“Since day one, I’ve made it my mission to help build as many new public schools as I could so that every child will have the same access to opportunity that I had growing up,” said local Council Member Justin Brannan, in a statement. “District 20 is one of the best school districts in the city and therefore it is also one of the most overcrowded so…
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