Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant prepares students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding college preparatory high schools and colleges. You can download our 2010-11 School Year Brochure here. We cultivate in our young men the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to succeed academically, embrace responsibility, and become honorable citizens and courageous leaders. Located in the Bedford Stuyvesant community of Brooklyn, the school opened in August 2004, and currently serves 360 boys in grades K-6. A new Kindergarten class will be added each year to eventually serve grades K-8. Excellence Boys scholars will graduate from college despite the very grim odds facing their demographic. According to Education Week, more than half of all African-American male students drop out of high school. U.S. Census data show that less than 8% of young African-American men (ages 18-29) have graduated from college, compared to 17% of young White men and 35% of young Asian men. These education gaps, according to a UC-Berkeley study, result in there being more Black dropouts in their late twenties in prison than in a job. Excellence Boys represents a response to these alarming trends. We believe that success in school leads to success in life. For our boys, success begins with Excellence. Excellence Boys is housed in a 90,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility with a 10,000-volume library, a 500-seat auditorium, music and art studios, a gymnasium, a climbing wall, a rooftop turf field, and sufficient classroom space to house Excellence Boys as it grows into a K-8 school.