ESSEX STREET ACADEMY

ADMISSIONS

Essex Street Academy (02M294) is a District 2, open admissions high school located in the Lower East Side. We are an Inside Schools “Staff Pick” school.

Number of 9th grade seats: 90

Admissions Method: Open. We are not Ed-Opt and we do not screen for any grades or attendance. We do NOT require an essay for admissions.

Note: We are a Consortium school which allows our students to graduate using Performance Based Assessment Tasks (PBATs) in lieu of the Regents exams. Students at our school take the English Regents and do 4 PBAT presentations.

2026 Fall Open Houses and Tours

During Open Houses, you will have a chance to meet our administrators, teachers, and our admissions and college counselor, and learn about the academic programming and extracurricular activities our school has to offer.

2027 important dates:

September 30th -> November 18th – Wednesday school tours (9:30am to 10:30am)
October 13th – Open House
October 27th – Open House