School culture
Brooklyn Prospect High School held its annual sports banquet on June 6 to honor its student-athletes for their accomplishments during the year. The dinner and awards ceremony for the BP Hawks, coaches, and their families, was emceed by Athletics Director Chris McCoy and co-hosted with support from the BPHS PTSO Sports Committee. Principal Wendell Cheung…
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When the Brooklyn Prospect High School (BPHS) Varsity Basketball team stepped onto the court for the championship final on April 1st, it marked the last high school game for five of the team’s seniors. It was a nail-biter game with a tie score with 49.5 seconds to go, but the Hawks drew a foul in…
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On this Veterans Day, Prospect Schools is saluting two of our very own. So much of the school day runs smoothly because of these two Prospectors, who served our country and today serve Prospect Schools. A Culture of Organization and Care Jasmin Sowell-Spears is the Assistant Principal of Programs at Brooklyn Prospect High School, where…
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What is the best way to understand how our students experience Prospect Schools and what they get out of their education here? Spend a day in the shoes of our students, of course! Chief Executive Officer Tresha Ward did just that at the start of this school year as she shadowed students at each of…
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Last year, the students, teachers, staff and parents of our Downtown Elementary school created the Borinquen Backpack Project to send much-needed supplies and relief aid to school children in Puerto Rico following Hurricane María. After filling 400 backpacks with supplies and books, the school took on a letter-writing campaign to urge political leaders across the country to…
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This week, the middle and high school students at our Windsor Terrace campus closed out Black History Month by raising the Black Lives Matter flag, along with the U.S. and IB flags that are traditionally raised daily on the campus flagpole. As part of the ceremony, students sang the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and…
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In the wake of Hurricane María, members of the Downtown Elementary community came together to send much-needed supplies and disaster relief aid to fellow students at La Escuela Luis M Santiago in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. In total, they filled 400 backpacks with school supplies, books, toys and postcards from our DTES students! Check out these photos from backpack…
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Earlier this year, BPCS 9th grader Laura Camacho received some news that would stay with her for a while: her writing would be published in a new book about former First Lady Michelle Obama, titled Courage is Contagious. The book is a collection of essays and letters written by authors, luminaries, students, musicians, actors, comedians and…
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