Learn about our peer mediation program, featured on ABC’s Protect Our Children, an annual segment exploring issues affecting children, students, and parents here in New York City.
Welcome to Leaders High School!
Leaders is a small high school in south Brooklyn that promotes deep and flexible thinking. Our students collaborate to complete meaningful projects that allow them to creatively apply what they have learned in real-world contexts. The Leaders’ curriculum, pedagogy, and wide range of programs are designed to support and inspire students as they grow to embody our core values of leading, learning, contributing, and exploring.
What is a NYC Outward Bound School?
Leaders is a NYC Outward Bound School. NYC Outward Bound Schools is a nonprofit organization that operates a network of public schools in partnership with the NYC Department of Education. All NYC Outward Bound Schools prepare students for college, citizenship, and the 21st century workplace by bringing to life the central principle of Outward Bound: that combining intensive challenge with guided support leads to students achieving far more than they ever thought possible.
Like all NYC Outward Bound schools, we implement the nationally recognized EL Education model, which is rooted in Outward Bound. This model features rigorous learning experiences, both in and out of the classroom, and is built upon a culture of high achievement and mutual support. Leaders uses hands-on learning that has real-world application to ignite a joy for learning and discovery in our students. At our school, leadership, active citizenship, and character development go hand in hand with academic rigor and challenge. In 2016, EL Education recognized Leaders with a prestigious national credential for exceeding the EL standards for student achievement.
Leaders High School
2630 Benson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11214
(718) 333-7700
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School Code: 21K572
Updates & News
How Is Change Achieved When Protest Ends? Leaders High School Sends Teens Citywide Seeking Answers
Leaders High School sent a teen team to delve into modern community organizing during their week-long field course “Intensive.” Read about what they learned in this thought-provoking article.
The Takeaway: Leaders High School’s Success with Restorative Justice
The Takeway interviews Principal David O’Hara and counselor Felicia Harper of our Leaders High School. They discuss the power of restorative justice in bringing down school suspensions and in raising levels of student engagement in all students and, in effect, breaking Leaders’ contribution to the school-to-prison-pipeline.
Credentials
Leaders is a proud member of the New York Performance Standards Consortium.
Contact Us
Leaders High School
2630 Benson Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11214
(718) 333-7700
Principal: Tom Mullen
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Assistant Principal: Rachel Madris
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Work for Us
Are you interested in joining the Leaders community as a staff member? Reach out to Principal Tom Mullen at [email protected].