Poly Prep Country Day School
| Poly Prep Country Day School | |
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The clock tower atop the main building
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9216 Seventh Avenue Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, New York 11228 United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°36′43″N 74°01′30″W / 40.612°N 74.025°WCoordinates: 40°36′43″N 74°01′30″W / 40.612°N 74.025°W |
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| Type | Private |
| Motto | Virtus victrix fortunae (Virtue is the victor over fate) |
| Established | 1854 |
| Headmaster | Audrius Barzdukas |
| Faculty | approx. 270 |
| Grades | N-12 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Enrollment | 1,021 total |
| Campus | Urban |
| Campus size | 26 acres (110,000 m2) |
| Color(s) | Blue & Grey |
| Athletics conference | Ivy Prep |
| Mascot | Blue Devil |
| Accreditation | NYSAIS |
| Newspaper | The Polygon (Upper School) The Tower Times (Middle School) |
| Yearbook | The Polyglot |
| Affiliations | New York Interschool |
| Website | polyprep.org |
Poly Prep Country Day School (known familiarly as Poly Prep) is an independent school with two campuses in Brooklyn, New York. Poly Prep's Middle School (5th to 8th grades) and Upper School (9th to 12th grades) are located in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, New York. Poly Prep's Lower School (Nursery to 4th grade) is located in Brooklyn's landmarked Park Slope neighborhood. Initially founded as part of the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute (predecessor of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), Poly Prep now offers classes from the nursery grade to 12th grade.
Poly Prep Country Day School was founded 162 years ago in 1854 in Downtown Brooklyn as "The Polytechnic Institute." It was one of the first private boys' schools in the city of Brooklyn. The initial aim of the school was to offer an academic program similar to that of boarding schools of the time while striving to maintain a strong community feel amongst students and faculty alike.
After 45 years, the future of the Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute was re-evaluated in 1889 when the preparatory school and the collegiate division were finally separated. In 1891, the construction of a new building next door to the school's original building provided a home for the college which became known as the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Both divisions still exist, although the collegiate division, after many changes of name, was eventually acquired by New York University (NYU) in 2008 and, as of 2014, is now known as NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
After its initial separation from the collegiate division, the Polytechnic Preparatory Institute remained an all-boys collegiate preparatory program at 99 Livingston Street and, by the mid-1890s, had already become one of the largest prep schools in the country with over 600 students.
Poly Prep moved to its Dyker Heights campus on July 1, 1916 when a twenty-five acre parcel of land, formerly part of the Dyker Heights Golf Course, was offered to trustees. Classes began during the fall of 1917 in the new campus amidst continued construction and renovations that helped shape much of the school’s current appearance.
During the tenure of Headmaster William M. Williams, the school began the transition to co-education in 1977 when it first admitted girls, graduating its first coed class in 1979.
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