Original Research by School Decision on Girls Preparatory Charter School of the Bronx
Girls Preparatory Charter School of the Bronx serves girls from pre-kindergarten through tenth grade across a network in Bronx County. The school recently underwent a significant governance transition: as of the 2025-2026 school year, it moved from the Public Prep network to Excellence Community Schools, a Bronx-based charter management organization. For families evaluating enrollment, this represents a lasting change in the organization managing the school, its branding, and instructional model.
The school's enrollment is small and concentrated in the elementary grades, with substantially higher enrollment in kindergarten through fourth grade and a marked dropoff in the upper grades. By tenth grade, enrollment is minimal. The student body is predominantly Hispanic and Black, with very small numbers of students from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. No data on the free-or-reduced-price lunch rate, special education enrollment, or English learner enrollment was available.
State academic testing data and a graduation rate were not available for this entity. Without these metrics, a parent cannot evaluate how students perform on standardized assessments or how many complete high school, which are key questions in choosing a school. A parent may want to contact the school directly to understand student outcomes, or look into whether testing data is published through other channels.
One operational strength is the recent physical consolidation of Girls Prep Bronx II. The school moved into its own newly constructed building in the Bedford Park neighborhood in the North Bronx for the 2024-2025 school year. After years of sharing space and operating from temporary locations, having a permanent, purpose-built facility is a durable factor that addresses logistical stability for families.
Within Bronx County's districts, this school's chronic absenteeism rate falls below the midpoint, meaning absenteeism is higher than the median district in the county. Per-pupil current spending sits in the middle range of the upper half among Bronx County's districts. These comparisons offer limited context without academic results to pair alongside them; a parent may want to look into absenteeism patterns further with the school to understand what drives the rate and whether the school has strategies in place to address it.
The school structure itself is worth noting: offering grades pre-K through ten means it does not serve eleventh or twelfth grades, so students must transition elsewhere to complete high school. This is a matter of practical planning for families with high school-age children. The small enrollment at the tenth-grade level raises a question about the school's trajectory in the upper grades that a parent considering long-term enrollment might want to explore directly with admissions.
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