Trey Whitfield School

Trey Whitfield School is an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. The school has many activities including basketball, computer, choir, and drama. The grades range from pre-k to 8th grade and there can be more than one class per grade depending on how many students there are. Its students are very dedicated to their academic work, and the teachers are committed to making sure that the students try their best to do well in school. This motivated the students to do more work, and based on the statistics, encouraging the students has made their grades surpass what is expected of the New York State academic system.

Academic program

Early childhood

The early childhood program consists of nursery, pre-kindergarten, and kindergarten. The focus of these levels is to teach the students social skills followed by entrance into actual academic courses. The students learn begin to learn how to read, write, and begin to learn about the world around them. They are also introduced to the beginning concepts of mathematics.

Lower school

Lower school, also known as the elementary department, is the second level of the school. This department consist of grade levels one through fifth grade. In this level the purpose is to further advance the students' minds in mathematics, science, social skills, and writing. Students are also introduced to extensive history classes in which the motto is "in order to know where the world is going you have to know where the world has been."

Upper school

Upper school has 1 primary goal which is to prepare the students for high school. They began to do high school work and are given high school privileges which teach them self control and respect. After completion of this level, students go to high school with a 95 percent chance of college.

Founders

Janie C. Whitney

The school was originally founded by Ms. Janie C. Whitney who has led the development of the school for over 20 years. Ms. Whitney was born in Cuthbert, Georgia. She attended Long Island University and studied accounting. She had always had a love for children and opened a day-care and after-school program in Bushwick, New York. In 1983, she became co-founder of Bethlehem Baptist Academy. As time went on the school became very productive and showed a strong will to build up a strong academic curriculum with good more character within its students.

A.B. Whitfield

A.B. Whitfield was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. he pursued many high school and college activities such as football, wrestling and track. He would later go on to play professional football. After he retired from football, he went on to earn a masters degree in education. He is the administrator and co owner of Trey Whitfield School. He has 35 years of educational experience and is retired from the NYC Board of Education where he was a teacher for 17 years, taught at elementary school level. He and Janie have also established the "Trey Whitfield Foundation" in memory of their son.

Name change

The school was originally known as Bethlehem Baptist Academy when it opened, but changed its name when the founders' son Trey Whitfield died in a boating accident while he was a senior attending Brewster Academy. The name change is seen as a tribute to their son who was considered an all-around good person.

External links

* [http://treywhitfieldschool.org/ Trey Whitfield School website]