Abacus Guide Private School Directory
This list contains more than 65 well-known NYC private schools serving students in the kindergarten - 12th grade years. We hope it makes your research easier.
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Bronx
Riverdale
All three Riverdale schools attract large numbers of bright, intellectually motivated students (school populations 1000 or more). All are similar to colleges: large, beautiful campuses with excellent sports and arts facilities, many clubs and teams, diverse course offerings including many honors classes, and talented faculty. All attract a largely liberal student population from NYC and nearby Westchester suburbs. This year, a number of Abacus Guide educational consulting clients achieved admission to these very competitive schools.
The Fieldston School / Fieldston Road and Manhattan College Parkway, Riverdale, NY 10471 / 718-329-7300/ N-12 / www.ecfs.org
The Horace Mann School / N: 55 East 90 Street, New York, NY 10128 / K – 5th grade: 4440 Tibbett Avenue, Riverdale, NY 10471 / 6th grade - 12th grade: 231 West 246 Street, Riverdale, NY 10471 / 718-432-4000 / N-12 / www.horacemann.org
The Riverdale Country School / 5250 Fieldston Road, Riverdale, NY 10471 / 718-549-8810 / N-12 / www.riverdale.edu
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Heights
The Brooklyn Heights schools are the most competitive in Brooklyn. Packer and Saint Ann's, while different in focus, both attract a motivated, liberal Brooklyn and lower Manhattan student base. Many Abacus Guide educational consulting clients seek admission to these schools. For more information on our services, please click here.
Packer Collegiate Institute / 170 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 / 718-875-6644 / N-12 / www.packer.edu/
Saint Ann's School / 129 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 / 718-522-1660 / N-12 / www.saintanns.k12.ny.us
The other Brooklyn schools attract many local students. Poly Prep, because it offers bus service, also sees many students from around the city. Each school is individual in character and philosophy, with an intimate atmosphere. Poly Prep is unusual amongst city schools because it offers such stellar arts and sports facilities.
Cobble Hill
Brooklyn Heights Montessori / 185 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 / 718-858-5100 / N-8 / www.bhmsny.org
Downtown
Brooklyn Friends School / 375 Pearl Street , Brooklyn, NY 11201 / 718-852-1029 / N-12 / www.brooklynfriends.org
Park Slope
The Berkeley Carroll School / N – K: 712 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 / 1st grade – 4th grade: 701 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 / 5th grade – 12th grade:181 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217 / 718-789-6060 / N-12 / www.berkeleycarroll.org
Park Slope and Dyker Heights
Poly Prep Country Day School / N - 4: 50 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215 / 5th grade - 12th grade 9216 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11228 / 718-836-9800 / N-12 / www.polyprep.org
Manhattan
Downtown
The Downtown schools all reflect their local neighborhood, attracting a largely liberal, and sometimes artistic, literary, and/or activist parent community. At Abacus Guide, we give our educational consulting clients the inside scoop on each school's character, offerings, and level of competitiveness of admission. For more information on our services, please click here.
The City & Country School / 146 West 13 Street, New York, NY 10011/ 212-242-7802 / N-8 / www.cityandcountry.org
Claremont Preparatory School / 41 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004 / 212-232-0266 / N-8 / www.claremontprep.org
Friends Seminary / 222 East 16 Street, New York, NY 10003 / 212-979-5030 / K-12 / www.friendsseminary.org
Grace Church School / 86 Fourth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 / 212-475-5609 / N-8 / www.gcschool.org
Little Red Schoolhouse and Elisabeth Irwin High School / 40 Charlton Street, New York, NY 10014 / 212-477-5316 / N-12 / www.lrei.org
St. Luke's School / 487 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 / 212-924-5960 / N-8 / www.stlukeschool.org
Village Community School / 272 West 10 Street, New York, NY 10014 / 212-691-5146 / K-8 / www.vcsnyc.org
East Side
The East Side is home to many of the most competitive schools in the city. If you're looking for an all-boys or all-girls school, you've hit pay-dirt: many of these institutions are on the East Side. If you prefer coed schools, there are plenty here too. Abacus Guide clients have been accepted at many well-known East Side schools, including Dalton, Nightingale, Buckley, Ramaz, and UNIS. For more information on our services, please click here..
It's hard to generalize about the East Side schools. While many have a traditional, conservative bent, others are quite progressive. The school choice is tremendous: besides the well-known "Baby Ivies" (a questionable term), you can find a Montessori school, a French school, an Italian school, a Christian school, an international school, a tutoring school ...
The Allen-Stevenson School / 132 East 78 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-288-6710 / K-9 / www.allen-stevenson.org
The Beekman School and Tutoring Center / 220 East 50 Street, New York, NY 10022 / 212-755-6666 / 9-12 / www.beekmanschool.org
The Birch-Wathen Lenox School / 210 East 77 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-861-0404 / K-12 / www.bwl.org
The Brearley School / 610 East 83 Street, New York, NY 10028 / 212-744-8582 / K-12 / www.brearley.org
The Browning School / 52 East 62 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-838-6280 / N-12 / www.browning.edu
The Buckley School / 113 East 73 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-535-8787 / K-9 / www.buckleyschoolnyc.org
The Caedmon School / 416 East 80 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-879-2296 / N-5 / www.caedmonschool.org
The Chapin School / 100 East End Avenue, New York, NY 10028 / 212-744-2335 / K-12 / www.chapin.edu
Convent of the Sacred Heart / 1 East 91 Street, New York, NY 10128 / 212-722-4745 / N-12 / www.cshnyc.org
The Dalton School / 108 East 89 Street, New York, NY 10128 / 212-423-5200 / K-12 / www.dalton.org
The Family School / 323 East 47 Street, New York, NY 10017 / 212-688-5950 / N-6 / www.amshq.org
The Geneva School of Manhattan / 583 Park Avenue / New York, NY 10021 / 212-754-9988 / N-8 / www.genevaschool.net
The Hewitt School / 45 East 75 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-288-1919 / K-12 / www.hewittschool.org
La Scuola D'Italia Guglielmo Marconi / 12 East 96 Street, New York, NY 10128 / 212-369-3290 / N-12 / www.lascuoladitalia.org
Loyola School / 980 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10028 / 212-288-3522 / 9-12 / www.loyola-nyc.org
Lycee Francais de New York / 505 East 75 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-369-1400 / www.lfny.org
Manhattan Country School / 7 East 96 Street, New York, NY 10128 / 212-348-0952 / N-8 / www.manhattancountryschool.org
Marymount School of New York / 1026-1028 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 / 212-744-4486 / N-12 / www.marymount.k12.ny.us
The Nightingale-Bamford School / 20 East 92 Street, New York, NY 10128 / 212-289-5020 / K-12 / www.nightingale.org
Philosophy Day School / 12 East 79 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-744-7300 / N-4 / www.philosophyday.org
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School / 164 East 68 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-737-6900 / N-8 / www.geocities.com/Broadway/8524/
Ramaz School / 60 East 78 Street, New York, NY 10021 / 212-774-8000 / N-12 / www.ramaz.org
Regis High School / 55 East 84 Street, New York, NY 10028 / 212-288-1100 / 9-12 / www.regis-nyc.org
The Rudolf Steiner School / 15 East 78 Street / New York, NY 10021 / 212-879-1101 / N-12 / www.steiner.edu
Saint David's School / 12 East 89 Street / New York, NY 10128 / 212-369-0058 / N-8 / www.saintdavids.org
The Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan / 50 East 87 Street, New York, NY 10128 / 212-427-9500 / K-8 / www.sssm.org
The Spence School / 22 East 91 Street / New York, NY 10128 / 212-289-5940 / K-12 / www.spenceschool.org
St. Bernard's School / 4 East 98 Street / New York, NY 10029 / 212-289-2878 / K-9 / www.stbernards.org
The Town School / 540 East 76 Street / New York, NY 10021 / 212-288-4383/ N-8 / www.thetownschool.org
The Trevor Day School / 11 East 89th Street New York, NY 10128 / 212-426-3300 / N-5 (6-12 is on West Side) / www.trevor.org
United Nations International School / 24-50 FDR Drive, New York, NY 10010 / 212-684-7400 / K-12 / www.unis.org
West Side
On the West Side, competition for entry to some schools is very stiff, and to others much less so. At Abacus Guide, we help our educational consulting clients apply to a balanced list. We educate people about not only the well-known schools, but also about some other schools that we think are strong. Some of our clients recently achieved admission to Trinity, Ethical Culture, CGPS, Trevor, and Dwight, among other schools.
Like the East Side, the West Side offers incredible diversity in school choice. The area is home to a few single-sex schools, as well as Jewish schools, church-affiliated schools, an international school, a performers' school ...
Many Abacus Guide educational consulting clients seek admission to these schools. For more information on our services, please click here.
Abraham Joshua Heschel School / 270 West 89 Street, New York, NY 10024 / 212-595-7087 / N-12 / www.heschel.org
The Alexander Robertson School / 3 West 95 Street, New York, NY 10025 / 212-663-6441 / K-6 / www.alexanderrobertson.org
Bank Street School for Children / 610 West 112 Street, New York, NY 10025 / 212-875-4433 / 3's - 13's / www.bankstreet.edu
The Calhoun School / 433 West End Avenue, New York, NY 10024 / 212-877-1700 / N-12 / www.calhoun.org
The Cathedral School / 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10025 / 212-316-7500 / K-8 / www.cathedralnyc.org
Collegiate School / 260 West 78 Street, New York, NY 10024 / 212-812-8500 / K-12 / www.collegiateschool.org
Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School / 5 West 93 Street, New York, NY 10025/ 212-749-6200/ N-12 / www.cgps.org
Corlears School / 324 West 15 Street, New York, NY 10011 / 212-741-2800 / N-4 / www.corlearsschool.org
De La Salle Academy / 202 West 97 Street, New York, NY 10025 / 212-316-5840 / 6-8 / www.delasalleacademy.com
The Dwight School / 291 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024 / 212-724-2146 / K-12 / www.dwight.edu
Ethical Culture / 33 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023 / 212-712-6223 / N-6 / www.ecfs.org
Mandell School / 127 West 94th Street, New York, NY 10025 / 212-222-1606 / N-1, expanding each year/ www.mandellschool.org
Metropolitan Montessori School / 325 West 85 Street, New York, NY 10024 / 212-579-5525 / N-6 / www.mmsny.org
Professional Children's School / 132 West 60 Street, New York, NY 10023 / 212-582-3116 / 4-12 / www.pcs-nyc.org
The Rodeph Sholom School / 168 West 79 Street, New York, NY 10024 / 212-362-0037 / N-8 / www.rodephsholomschool.org
The Solomon Schechter High School of New York / 1 West 91 Street, New York, NY 10024 / 212-877-7747 / 9-12/ www.sshsny.org
St. Hilda & St. Hugh's School / 619 West 114 Street, New York, NY 10025 / 212-932-1980 / N-8/ www.sthildas.org
The Studio Elementary School / 124A West 95 Street, New York, NY 10025 / 212-678-2416 / N-6 / www.studioschoolnyc.org
The Trevor Day School / 1 West 88 Street, New York, NY 10029 / 212-426-3360 / 6-12 (N-5 is on East Side) / www.trevor.org
Trinity School / 139 West 91 Street, New York, NY 10024 / 212-873-1650 / K-12 / www.trinityschoolnyc.org
York Prep / 40 West 68 Street, New York, NY 10023 / 212-362-0400 / 6-12 / www.yorkprep.org
Staten Island
New Dorp Christian Academy / 259 Rose Avenue, Staten Island, New York 10306 / 718-351-4442 / N-8 / http://newdorpbaptist.com/
Staten Island Academy / 715 Todt Hill Road, Staten Island, NY 10304 / 718-987-8100 / N-12 / www.statenislandacademy.org
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