Avenues: The World School

Avenues: The World School
The school from Tenth Avenue in May 2013
Address
259 Tenth Avenue Manhattan, New York City, New York United States
Information
Funding type	Private for-profit
Established	2011
Founders	Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., Chris Whittle, Alan Greenberg (businessman)
Head of School	Robert "Skip" Mattoon
Grades	pre-K–12
Tuition	~ $50,450/year
Website	avenues.org

Coordinates: 40°44′58″N 74°00′12″W / 40.74941°N 74.00327°W / 40.74941; -74.00327

Avenues: The World School is an international system of for-profit private schools for pre-K-12th grades.The first campus opened in September 2012 in New York City in the neighborhood of Chelsea. Avenues plans to open 20 or more campuses in other cities around the world over the next decade. The system is planned to be an integrated "learning community" with a shared vision, curriculum, technology, professional development of faculty and oversight by a centralized headquarters team.

Avenues is organized in four "schools" or divisions: the Early Learning Center (nursery school and pre-kindergarten), Lower School (kindergarten through grade four), Middle School (grades five through eight) and Upper School (grades nine through 12). Tuition at the schools will cost $45,350 annually per student (2015-16 academic year). Originally the tuition was supposed to be $40,000 per year but, citing a recession, Avenues started charging $45,350 a year in September 2015.

Avenues' Senior Advisor and Co-Founder is Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., formerly president of Yale University and dean of Columbia Law School. Schmidt co-founded Edison Schools, now EdisonLearning in 1992, and he currently serves as chairman of the board for the City University of New York. The system's second Co-Founder is Chris Whittle, a media and education entrepreneur. Whittle founded Edison Schools with Schmidt in 1992, and before that built a single college magazine into one of America's top 100 media companies in the 1980s. The company's President - Americas & EMEA and final Co-Founder is Alan Greenberg, a businessman with a background in interactive and traditional media in the education, healthcare and global travel sectors. He founded Greenberg News Networks, which was subsequently purchased by WebMD.