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P.S. 26 Jesse Owens
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Brooklyn NY 11221
Our Insights
What’s Special
Popular principal; G&T in 3rd grade
The Downside
Below average attendance
PS 26 in Bedford Stuyvesant is a neigborhood school with a "gifted and talented" program starting in 3rd grade, designed to offer greater academic challenge to bright students in black and Latino neighborhoods.
One mother told the Wall Street Journal the gifted program "fostered independence" in her daughter, who comes home with research to tackle. "I try to help her and she says, 'No, we have to do it on our own!'" the Journal quoted the mother as saying. Children are selected for the program "by a mix of report cards, written work and teacher recommendations," according to the Journal.
Overall, the school gets high marks from teachers, who uniformly praise the prinicpal, Cynthia Celestine, and say they would recommend the school to parents.
One downside: the school's attendance rate is below average.
Admissions: Zoned neighborhood school. Gifted program open to students in District 16, based on recommendation of 2nd grade teachers. (Clara Hemphill, news reports, February 2019)
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Is this school safe and well-run?
From 2018-19 NYC School Survey
From 2017-18 NY State Report Card
From this school's most recent Quality Review Report
From 2018-19 School Quality Guide
How do students perform academically?
From 2019 State ELA+Math Results Summary
What is the Pre-K like?
From the NYC Program Assessment (CLASS and ECERS-R) Database through 2018-2019
Who does this school serve?
From 2019-20 Demographic Snapshot
From 2018-19 School Quality Guide
From 2020 School Directories
How does this school serve special populations?
From 2019 State ELA+Math Results Summary
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Zone for the 2019-2020 school year. Call school to confirm.
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