About Bard High School Early College Brooklyn

Bard High School Early College Brooklyn will offer young people a set of extraordinary opportunities, including:

• Enabling students to graduate from high school with 60 transferable college credits and a Bard College AA degree, entirely free of cost to students and their families
• A core curriculum in the liberal arts and sciences
• Extensive guidance in postsecondary options and credit transfer 
• Robust student support structures that attend to students’ academic, social, and developmental needs

To learn more about the Bard High School Early College model, please visit www.bard.edu/earlycollege or reach out to us at [email protected]. 

Location

In the 2024-2025 school year, the location for Bard High School Early College Brooklyn is 301 Vermont Avenue in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood. 

Applying to Bard High School Early College Brooklyn

BHSEC Brooklyn will ultimately serve up to 500 students, prioritizing enrollment for students living and/or studying in Brooklyn. For the first two years, rising 9th and rising 11th graders may apply. There will be 125 seats for entering 9th graders and 25 seats for entering 11th graders.

The high school application for students entering 9th grade in September 2025 will open on October 1st, 2024. The link to register for our in-person assessment will be HERE. The Bard assessment consists of a writing and math portion and students have 1.5 hours to complete it. Applicants may take the assessment at any of our 4 locations in NYC but can only sit for our assessment once. This is an in-person assessment.

Selection Criteria

Average Course Grades – 10%

Humanities Writing – 30%

Math part – 30%

Interview – 30%