Fort Greene Preparatory Academy

Fort Greene Prep, a small middle school opened in 2010, aims to engage students with projects and field trips. Special needs kids are integrated into all classes; every class has two teachers.

The curriculum is “inquiry-based,” meaning that students apply their learning to real life situations. For example, one year students built and launched a rocket, instead of just reading a textbook about rockets, the school’s founding principal, Paula Lettiere, told our reporter Pamela Wheaton. In an 8th grade Spanish class, students prepared guacamole and created a restaurant.

The school has a large proportion of students who enter with a history of chronic absenteeism. The school has hired a guidance counselor to work with families to make students feel welcome, according to the school’s Comprehensive Educational Plan (CEP).

Fort Greene Prep has a partnership with the Brooklyn Tech Pipeline Program which prepares students for entry into the specialized high schools with extra classes on Saturdays and in the summer. Students from the Brooklyn Tech robotic team mentor younger students from Fort Greene Prep robotic team, according to the CEP. There is an afterschool drama program with Irondale Theatre. 

The school is housed on the third floor of PS 46. The two schools share an auditorium, cafeteria, library and large school yard.  [photo credit: Fort Greene Prep]

Admissions:  District 13 choice. (Clara Hemphill, web reports, May 2019)