The Excellence network includes Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant, launched in August 2004, and Excellence Girls Charter School, which is in its founding year. Excellence Boys and Excellence Girls are committed to being particularly uncommon in providing a single-sex learning environment.

Excellence Boys, which posted exceptional results on the 2009 New York State English Language Arts and Math exams in grades 3 - 5, has the unique opportunity to serve as a path-finder for single-sex education - particularly all-boys schools - at a time when the achievement gap between male and female students is both fast-growing and alarming. Excellence Boys cultivates in its young men the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to succeed academically, embrace responsibility, and become honorable citizens and courageous leaders. It prepares its young men to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college. Principal Jabali Sawicki and Co-Director Tim Saintsing jointly lead the school.

In the summer of 2009, Excellence Girls, an all-girls charter school, serving students in Kindergarten and 1st grade, opened. The school, which is based in part on the model of her brother school, Excellence Boys, will grow to include grades K through 8. The mission of Excellence Girls is to prepare its students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from outstanding high schools and colleges. Excellence Girls is jointly led by Co-Director for Curriculum and Instruction, Celestina De La Garza and Co-Director for Operations, Samantha Tweedy.

At full capacity, the Excellence network will serve more than 1,500 students. This network is managed by Brett Peiser, the Founder and former Executive Director of Boston Collegiate Charter School.

Excellence Boys Charter School of Bedford Stuyvesant
225 Patchen Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11233
Phone: (718) 638-1830
Fax: (718) 638-2548
Email: office@excellencecharter.org

Website: www.excellenceboys.org

Excellence Girls Charter School

794 Monroe Street, 3rd floor
Brooklyn, NY 11221

Phone: (718) 638-1875
Fax: (718) 228-6670
Email: eginfo@excellencecharter.org

Website: www.excellencegirls.org