Poly Prep Country Day School

Brooklyn · NY · Private independent · K-12 combined

Private

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At a glance

Programs & features

Teaches no AP-designated courses — common among independent schools that run their own advanced curriculum

Academic signals

SAT avg 1364
ACT avg 31

Composed from the school's own published profile (2024), and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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Your state's public flagship

Stony Brook University

49%

admit rate

$10,931

in-state tuition/yr · $32,741 out-of-state

1320–1490

SAT 25–75 · ACT 28–33

The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $18,784/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Pay for college in New York

New York's public scholarships

New York's Excelsior Scholarship makes SUNY and CUNY tuition-free for middle-income families — there's no GPA or test gate, but you commit to staying in New York after you graduate.

Promise Excelsior Scholarship

Free SUNY/CUNY tuition (last-dollar, up to $5,500/yr)

Income: Household AGI ≤ $125,000

Tuition-free SUNY/CUNY for NY families under $125k AGI — no GPA or test gate, but you must stay on track and live in New York after graduating. (Stay on-track (30 credits/yr); live & work in NY afterward for the years you received it.)

Official program details ↗

Eligibility rules change yearly — confirm with the official program before relying on it. Amounts are recent published figures; awards cover tuition/fees, not housing or books unless noted. Verified 2026-06-14.

Their published matriculation list

Where the Classes of 2020–2024 enrolled

Poly Prep Country Day School publishes where its graduates enrolled. What follows is copied from that document — 164 colleges, ordered by the number of students enrolled.

College · Students

Lehigh University* 20

New York University* 19

University of Wisconsin (Madison)* 19

Tulane University of Louisiana* 18

Colgate University* 16

Tufts University* 15

Wesleyan University* 15

Syracuse University* 14

Cornell University* 12

Bucknell University* 11

Northeastern University* 11

Skidmore College* 11

University of Miami* 11

Brown University* 10

Emory University* 10

Yale University 10

Bates College* 9

Dartmouth College* 9

Georgetown University* 9

Trinity College* 9

University of Pennsylvania* 9

University of Southern California* 9

Villanova University* 9

Wake Forest University* 9

Williams College* 9

Colby College* 8

Indiana University (Bloomington)* 8

University of Colorado Boulder* 8

University of Michigan* 8

Washington University in St. Louis* 8

and 134 more

George Washington University 7

Lafayette College* 7

Columbia University* 6

Duke University* 6

Hamilton College 6

Haverford College* 6

Middlebury College* 6

Boston College* 5

Carnegie Mellon University 5

Claremont McKenna College* 5

Franklin & Marshall College 5

Northwestern University* 5

Swarthmore College* 5

University of Richmond 5

Vanderbilt University* 5

Amherst College 4

Carleton College 4

Fordham University* 4

Kenyon College* 4

Occidental College* 4

Southern Methodist University* 4

Bowdoin College* 3

Ithaca College 3

Oberlin College* 3

Rutgers University (New Brunswick) 3

Scripps College 3

The American University of Paris 3

The Ohio State University 3

The University of Texas at Austin* 3

University of California (Los Angeles) 3

University of Denver 3

University of St Andrews 3

Vassar College* 3

Washington and Lee University* 3

Bard College* 2

Barnard College 2

Boston University 2

Bryn Mawr College 2

Chapman University* 2

College of the Holy Cross 2

Colorado College* 2

Denison University* 2

Fairfield University 2

Gettysburg College* 2

Grinnell College 2

Hartwick College 2

Howard University 2

Marist College 2

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2

McGill University 2

Mount Holyoke College* 2

Muhlenberg College 2

Penn State University (University Park) 2

Pepperdine University* 2

Pomona College* 2

Rhodes College* 2

Rice University 2

Santa Clara University* 2

Smith College* 2

Spelman College 2

St. John’s College (Santa Fe) 2

St. Lawrence University* 2

Stony Brook University 2

SUNY at Purchase College 2

Texas Christian University 2

Union College 2

University of California (Davis) 2

University of Chicago 2

University of Connecticut* 2

University of Notre Dame* 2

American University 1

Bennington College 1

Binghamton University 1

Case Western Reserve University 1

Catholic University of America 1

Clark University 1

CUNY Bernard M Baruch College 1

CUNY Brooklyn College 1

Davidson College 1

Dickinson College 1

Dominican University New York 1

Drexel University 1

Durham University* 1

Eckerd College 1

Elon University 1

Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School 1

Fashion Institute of Technology* 1

Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 1

Furman University* 1

George Mason University 1

Hampton University* 1

Harvard University 1

Harvey Mudd College* 1

Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1

Hult International Business School (Boston) 1

IE University (Madrid)* 1

Johns Hopkins University 1

Loyola Marymount University 1

Loyola University New Orleans 1

Marymount Manhattan College 1

Michigan State University 1

North Carolina State University 1

Nova Southeastern University 1

Oxford College of Emory University* 1

Providence College 1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1

Rochester Institute of Technology 1

Roger Williams University 1

San Diego State University 1

Sarah Lawrence College 1

Springfield College 1

Stanford University 1

SUNY University at Buffalo 1

Temple University* 1

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art 1

The New School 1

Trinity College Dublin 1

United States Military Academy at West Point 1

United States Naval Academy 1

University of California (Berkeley) 1

University of California (San Diego) 1

University of California (Santa Barbara) 1

University of Florida 1

University of Maryland (College Park)* 1

University of Massachusetts (Amherst)* 1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill* 1

University of Oregon* 1

University of Oxford 1

University of Vermont 1

University of Virginia (Main Campus) 1

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1

Wagner College 1

Wellesley College* 1

William & Mary* 1

These graduates went on to the colleges above.

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Independently verified As published by Poly Prep Country Day School — 2024-25 Poly Prep Profile / College Tear Sheet ↗. Found at: p.5, 'COLLEGE MATRICULATION CLASSES OF 2020–2024' list ('Poly graduates are currently attending the following colleges as of September 2024').

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment went from 993 in 2018 to 1,081 in 2022 — over 4 years.

+8.9%

Why only 2 data points?

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 Poly Prep Country Day School's own published school profile (as of 2024-25): www.polyprep.org/files/24-25/2024-25_poly-prep-pr… ↗

Most similar nearby high schools

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
Bay Ridge Preparatory School Brooklyn	Private	1.1	359	—
Bay Ridge Prepatory School Brooklyn	Private	1.3	358	—
Geller House School Staten Island	Private	2.5	14	—
BASIS Independent Brooklyn Brooklyn	Private	4.3	845	+5.5%
Staten Island Academy Staten Island	Private	4.6	305	-6.7%
The Berkeley Carroll School Brooklyn	Private	5.1	910	+5.1%
Brooklyn Amity School Brooklyn	Private	5.2	128	-8.6%
Fontbonne Hall Academy Brooklyn	Private	0.6	342	-14.1%

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