The city’s first all-boys public school in a generation is coming to Brooklyn.
The State University Charter Schools Institute has recommended opening the Bedford-Stuyvesant Charter School for Excellence. Its board of trustees is expected to approve the application at a Feb. 25 meeting.
“Terrific! We’re on our way,” said Norman Atkins, the head of a charter school in Newark, N.J. and a co-founder of the all-male Brooklyn public school.
The boys school, which could open as early as September or in 2004, would accept 88 pupils in kindergarten and first grade, and eventually expand to grade five, with a total of 329 students.
The organizers are still looking for a facility in Bed-Stuy.
The board also is expected to approve three other city charters – publicly funded schools that operate independently of the city Department of Education: the KIPP College Prep Charter School in Harlem, the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning and the Bronx Charter School for Excellence.