Campus Tour
You're invited to explore our campus, where each space combines beauty and purpose as part of our mission to educate girls of adventurous intellect.
Our Campus
Three Buildings, One Campus
Located on the Upper East Side, Brearley's campus consists of three buildings: our historic schoolhouse at 610 East 83rd Street, which holds our Middle and Upper School students; 590 East 83rd Street, which is for our Lower School students; and our Field House just a few blocks away on East 87th Street.
East 83rd Street
This newly constructed 12-story building is the centerpiece of Brearley’s Lower School. In addition to the Lower School classrooms, library and cafeteria, the building offers leading-edge science labs, a regulation-sized gymnasium, a spacious lobby with integrated learning landscape, and a large multiuse performance hall distinguished for its acoustic design. The building was designed with a focus on sustainable initiatives, as its daylight harvesting and state-of-the-art HVAC uses significantly less energy, fossil fuels and water.
East 83rd Street
Our historic schoolhouse serves as the anchor to Brearley’s foundation and the focal point of our campus. In addition to housing the Middle and Upper School classrooms, this building features a brand-new library, a stately theater, a newly renovated gymnasium, and the “Caf,” where our students socialize and eat sustainable meals.
Planned renovations to the building will create a new studio art center on the building's top two floors, which will allow for updates to our ceramics studio, light and dark rooms and digital arts capabilities. Complete redesigns of the cafeteria, lobby and classroom floors are also scheduled for an overhaul; each division will be housed along three contiguous floors, creating a school within a school.
Used daily by both Middle and Upper School teams for practices and games, our 87th Street Field House is the centerpiece of Brearley’s athletics program. A brand-new turf roof offers additional spectator seating, as goals for lacrosse and soccer have been installed. Within the building, recent improvements to the gym include a state-of-the-art scoreboard, new Brearley-red wall mats and refurbished flooring, which bears the image of Bev the Beaver, our school mascot.
On the East End, in the Center of Everything
Located on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Brearley campus takes great advantage of the neighborhood’s world-class facilities and public spaces. Students regularly use the fields at Asphalt Green and Randall's Island for sports games and practices, while the Second Avenue subway makes our school convenient and accessible to all corners of the city. The neighboring Carl Schurz Park offers the entire Brearley community a space to take leisurely walks on the water, explore local playgrounds, and simply relax while watching the boats sail by on the East River.