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Poly Prep Country Day School company history timeline

1854

Poly began in 1854 as an all boys’ school called the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute at 99 Livingston Street in Brooklyn Heights.

1889

After 45 years, the future of the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute was re-evaluated in 1889, when the preparatory school and the collegiate division were finally separated.

1891

In 1891, the construction of a new building next door provided a home for the college, to be known as the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.

1905

In 1905, the school purchased a plot of land between Ocean Parkway and Gravesend Avenue for use as athletic fields.

1916

The school acquired its Dyker Heights location in 1916 after a 25-acre parcel of land, formerly the Dyker Meadow Golf Course, was offered to the trustees.

1917

Construction at the new site was still underway as 350 students arrived to begin classes in the fall of 1917.

Classes began during the fall of 1917 at the new campus, amid continued construction that helped shape much of the school's current appearance.

1995

Poly Prep expanded dramatically in 1995 with the acquisition of the site of the former historic Woodward Park School (or, as it’s sometimes known, “The Mansion”) on Prospect Park West in Park Slope.

2009

In April 2009, Poly Prep's Lower School won the Lucy B. Moses Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy as an outstanding example of historic preservation and renovation.

2020

Last year, 2020, Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School entered the pandemic just as unprepared as the rest of the world for the effects COVID-19 would have on its students.

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