Bard High School Early College
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United States |
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| Type | Public secondary, college |
| Established | June 2001 |
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| Dean | Martha J. Olson |
| Principal | Michael Lerner |
| Grades | 9-12 |
| Enrollment | Approx. 560 students |
| Campus | Urban |
| Color(s) | Black, white, and red |
| Mascot | Raptors, Bardbarians |
| Affiliations | Bard College, Bard College at Simon's Rock, NYC Department of Education |
| Website | www.bard.edu/earlycollege |
| Students graduate with a high school diploma, an A.A. in liberal arts, and 60+ college credits. | |
Coordinates: 40°43′10″N 73°56′55″W / 40.7195°N 73.9485°W
Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) is an alternative public secondary school in New York City, United States, that allows highly motivated and scholastically strong students to begin their college studies two years early. Students complete their high school requirements in two years and then embark on college work. After four years, they receive both a Regents diploma and an associate degree. BHSEC has three campuses: BHSEC Manhattan, which opened in 2001, is located in the Lower East Side, Manhattan in a building previously occupied by Public School 97; BHSEC Queens, which opened in 2008, located in Long Island City; and BHSEC Newark opened 2011 and located in Newark, New Jersey. In 2012, The New York Observer ranked BHSEC Manhattan as the number one public high school in New York City, with an A+ grade, a higher grade than the top school in the private school rankings.
Founded in 2001 as a partnership of the New York City Department of Education and Bard College and funded in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the school accepts students into the ninth grade and allows them to earn both a high school diploma and an Associate of Arts (AA) degree in four years. BHSEC was the first school in the Gates Foundation's Early College High School Initiative, which aims to improve education in the United States by introducing smaller public high schools which help remove the barriers to a college education by offering students a college education in a high school setting. Many of the teaching philosophies that BHSEC has implemented were developed at Bard College at Simon's Rock, the oldest and most highly regarded early college entrance program and the only accredited four-year early college to date.
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