Nightingale-Bamford School
New York · NY · Private independent · K-12 combined
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Spence School → Dalton School → La Scuola D'Italia → Lascuola Ditalia → Dwight School → Rudolf Steiner School → Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School → The Hewitt School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 21 AP courses offered (school profile)
- 🏆 9 National Merit Semifinalists last year
- 📝 SAT avg 1450 (25-75: 1400–1510)
- 📝 ACT avg 32.5 (25-75: 31–34)
- 📚 AP exam pass rate 90.0% (avg score 4.3)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, the school's own published profile, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Nightingale-Bamford School compares for families
Among the academically strongest private schools in our database.
- ▸ NationallySAT mean 1450 (≈ top 3% of US test-takers) · ACT mean 32.5 (≈ top 4%) · 90% AP pass rate (US average: ~60%) · 9 National Merit Semifinalists last year (NMSF is the top 1% of US PSAT scorers).
- ▸ LocallyNY sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Spence School, Dalton School, La Scuola D'Italia and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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Enrollment trend & projection
Private school enrollment comes from the NCES Private School Universe Survey (PSS), which is collected every other year — not annually like public-school data. The most recent published collection is 2021–22; NCES targeted spring 2026 for the 2023–24 release — we'll load it as soon as it's published.
For a more current snapshot, see Nightingale-Bamford School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.nightingale.org/admission/school-profile ↗
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +1.5%/year, projecting from 2022's 674 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At tuition per student, the 54 students projected to be gained by 2027 represent ≈ $864,000/year in tuition upside.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spence School New York |
Private | 0.0 | 769 | — |
| Dalton School New York |
Private | 0.1 | 1,221 | — |
| La Scuola D'Italia New York |
Private | 0.2 | 110 | -34.5% |
| Lascuola Ditalia New York |
Private | 0.2 | 111 | -33.9% |
| Dwight School New York |
Private | 0.6 | 742 | +18.5% |
| Rudolf Steiner School New York |
Private | 0.6 | 244 | -12.2% |
| Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School New York |
Private | 0.7 | 1,138 | -8.1% |
| The Hewitt School New York |
Private | 0.8 | 464 | -11.6% |