The Urban Assembly is proud of the achievements of our schools and our students.
  • When the Urban Assembly Academy for Careers in Sports (ACS) opened in 2002, only 18 percent of its freshmen performed at grade level in math. By the end of their sophomore year, 99 percent of them had passed the Math A Regents exam. In June 2005, ACS administered the Math A Regents for the first time to its freshmen. Ninety-eight percent of them passed, compared to an 81 percent pass rate citywide.
  • In 2005, 98 percent of students at the Bronx Academy of Letters passed the English and Math A Regents exams. Students have won scholarships to highly selective summer writing and journalism programs at Columbia, Princeton, and Smith College.
  • In 2005-2006, the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science challenged 23 sixth-graders with the ninth-grade Biology Regents exam. Almost half of them passed it, compared to 58 percent of ninth-graders who took the exam citywide.
  • Every single student at the Urban Assembly School for Law and Justice passed the Math A Regents exam by the end of tenth grade. A quarter of them were accelerated and passed it a year early, in ninth grade. Ninth- graders produced a documentary selected for screening at the Boston Film Festival. In the summer of 2006, four students from the school were awarded scholarships by Junior Statesmen of America and took college-level courses at Yale and Princeton.
  • Ninth-graders at the Urban Assembly School for Law, Government and Justice in the Bronx, coached by attorneys from the law firm and school partner, Kaye Scholer, competed successfully against students from the elite private school, Horace Mann, in a mock court competition. In 2006, two seniors were awarded Posse Foundation scholarships to Trinity and Franklin and Marshall Colleges, and two won full scholarships to Dartmouth and New York University.
  • Digital photography students at the Urban Assembly School for Music and Arts, in partnership with Kids with Cameras, mounted an exhibit in Williamsburg and sold every photograph.
  • The Urban Assembly School of Business for Young Women won a competitive bid to be formally adopted by Time Warner Women's Network.
  • Students at the Urban Assembly's New York Harbor School have won four scholarships to the prestigious Island School in the Bahamas, where high school sophomores and juniors spend a semester studying environmental sciences and marine biology.