BASIS Independent Schools believe in educating students to the highest international standards. The knowledgeable and passionate subject-expert teachers believe that with the right support and encouragement, any motivated child can achieve academic excellence.
The International Academy of New York is a non-profit, independent school developing bilingual, culturally astute students with fluency in Mandarin or Spanish.
Nursery and Pre-Kindergarten programs at Trevor Day School are based in Trevor’s Lower School (N-Grade 5). Both programs are focused on the social and emotional development of children in concert with academic growth, and each features a dynamic, play-based curriculum that sparks wonder in young children. Two teachers in every classroom provide a nurturing setting. Language arts, math, science, art, music, PE, library, Spanish, rooftop play, and Central Park excursions all form the basis of inquiry-based learning. Extended-day options and half-day nursery are available.
Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School prepares students for the future, instilling within them unparalleled confidence, curiosity, creativity, values, and knowledge. The interdisciplinary, award-winning curriculum from pre-school to grade eight stimulates students’ minds, the nurturing coed community supports their dreams, and the school’s commitment to Jewish identity from generation to generation welcomes all backgrounds. Teachers cultivate a lifelong love for learning and provide students with the tools to achieve academic excellence.
The British International School of New York is a private school for boys and girls from ages 3-14, expanding to offer an Upper School in 2018. BIS-NY is proud to be an I.B. World School, authorized to deliver the Primary Years and Middle Years program, with a world-class faculty. This dynamic combination promotes a fully-rounded and stimulating experience in a warm, welcoming, and child-centered environment where every child is both supported and stretched to meet their individual potential.
AltSchool offers a whole-child, personalized education to prepare students for their future by developing their self-awareness, nurturing their innate capabilities, and fostering collaboration skills. AltSchool educators involve students in their own learning and incorporate project-based learning to help students develop a sense of agency and responsibility for their education.
Blue School’s inquiry-based approach to education emphasizes the value of play, from the dramatic play areas of the 3s program to play with language and project work in the 5th grade.
Corlears is an independent/private school dedicated to the education of children from the nursery school ages through 5th grade.
HWIS’ full immersion environment emulates how students learn their first language. All of the instructional time (except about 30 minutes of English language arts) is spent in the target language, either Mandarin or Spanish.
Founded in 1928, Saint Stephen of Hungary School is a pre-K through 8th grade award-winning Catholic school with a rich heritage of academic excellence.
Sara Curry Day School builds on emotional intelligence and allows children to come up with projects that interest them, take responsibility for them, and bring them to completion. The school helps to develop a community of responsive and responsible human beings who have the confidence to change the world. Children learn to communicate constructively and discuss all topics openly—in this way bullying is prevented because each child feels safe and listened to.
Science, Language & Arts International School (SLA) is an independent Nursery to Grade 8 school in Brooklyn focused on hands-on science, arts, and math. SLA was founded on a deep-seated belief in the limitless capabilities of children and is committed to providing children with a rich and rigorous multilingual education in French and Mandarin.
The Cathedral School offers a nurturing environment for students to learn and thrive. A co-educational school located on Manhattan's Upper East Side, The Cathedral School provides Preschool and Day School programs educating children from nursery through 8th grade.
