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. Open houses are from 6-7pm.

  • Tuesday, October 13th 
  • Tuesday, October 27th 
  • Tuesday, November 17th
Open House RSVP
Tours are led by current students and allow families to peek inside classes while school is in session. Tours will take place on the following Wednesday mornings from 9:30-10:30am. 
 
September 23rd
October 7th
October 14th
October 21st
October 28th
November 4th
November 18th
Tours RSVP