{"id":788347,"date":"2026-05-11T08:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788347\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:23:30","slug":"prospects-new-downtown-brooklyn-high-school-opens-this-fall-brooklyn-bridge-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788347\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospect\u2019s New Downtown Brooklyn High School Opens This Fall | Brooklyn Bridge Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prospect High School \u2014 a tuition-free public charter school open to families across District 13 and the borough \u2014 moves into a purpose-built campus in Downtown Brooklyn this fall, with room for 1,200 students at full enrollment and a building designed specifically for high school life. It will feature science labs, art and dance studios, a black box theater, a gymnasium with an NBA-sized basketball court, a two-floor library and student lounge.<\/p>\n

What the new campus has
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The new building is built for high school: eleven classrooms per grade, science labs, art studios, dance studios, a black box theater, a gymnasium with an NBA-sized basketball court, a two-floor library and student lounge, and three roof terraces with views across Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island. At full enrollment, the campus serves 300 students per grade \u2014 1,200 across grades 9 through 12. Brooklyn Prospect signed a 40-year lease on the building, which it shares with St. Francis College and a future ground-floor retailer; the high school has its own dedicated lobby and entrance.<\/p>\n

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Who it\u2019s for and how to apply<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Prospect High School is tuition-free, like all public charter schools. Admissions priority goes to students in District 13, with applications open to families anywhere in Brooklyn and beyond. New students enroll in 9th grade or at the start of 10th grade, and the school is unscreened \u2014 admissions don\u2019t depend on academic record \u2014 which makes it a notable alternative for families navigating NYC\u2019s largely screened high-school landscape.<\/p>\n

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The IB program \u2014 for every student<\/p>\n

Every student at Brooklyn Prospect High School participates in the International Baccalaureate program \u2014 the globally recognized, internationally minded curriculum that prepares students for the IB Diploma in 11th and 12th grade alongside New York State Regents exams. Brooklyn Prospect is one of the few unscreened public high schools in NYC offering IB to every student. The school reports a 100% college acceptance rate \u2014 every senior in recent graduating classes has been accepted to at least one college or university.<\/p>\n

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Part of the Prospect Schools network<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Prospect High School is the upper end of a Prospect Schools network that runs from elementary through twelfth grade. The new high school sits two blocks from Brooklyn Prospect\u2019s Downtown Elementary and Middle schools \u2014 which deepens the continuity for families staying with Prospect through their child\u2019s full K\u201312 arc.<\/p>\n

Get a tour<\/p>\n

A short video walkthrough<\/a> of the new campus is online. Application info, open-house dates, and details on the rest of the Prospect Schools network are on the Brooklyn Prospect High School site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prospect High School \u2014 a tuition-free public charter school open to families across District 13 and the borough…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-788347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116554983756252165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}