Brooklyn Lab School

Brooklyn Lab School is a positive learning environment. Being successful here means working hard, coming to school everyday, making friends who are positive influences in your life, participating in class discussions, and getting involved in school activities.

We believe that you deserve the opportunity to have a range of choice for attending college. We contend that every student should experience a rigorous high school education that prepares him or her for success in college and post-secondary life. We believe that with the right supports, expectations and school culture, you can excel.

Our school is an environment where you will be known well, cared for, and graduate knowing that there is nothing that cannot be accomplished with perseverance, the pursuit of knowledge and community involvement. We strive to be a place where all of our students are accepted to college, confident that they have the knowledge, skills and habits that will ensure them post graduation success with their academic endeavors, careers and healthy lives.

Our Partner

Our principle partner is the Institute for Student Achievement (ISA) because we share a common goal: to improve the quality of education for children so they have the tools to be successful community members. ISA works in partnership with many high school principals and superintendents to create academically rigorous and caring small schools. Our specific approach can be defined through 7 ISA principles focused on a single outcome: to prepare students for success in college, work and life.

How We Will Succeed

In a small school with a culture that values good teaching, creative programming and broad community/parent engagement, students achieve great things. We have created a small, personalized and intellectually demanding school. Reducing our school size, however, is not on its own sufficient to achieve the positive academic gains and social outcomes that we envision. We strive to ensure that you will receive an excellent education. This requires getting to know students well. We believe that you will learn best in close-knit, nurturing environment where no child can fall through the cracks and where students develop “relational trust” with adults and other students in the building. This combination of academic and social support is what will set Brooklyn Lab aside from schools that are less successful.