Zeta Constitution Faculties has signed a two-year lease at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Washington Heights. The 35,000-square-foot web site will function the interim campus for Zeta’s first highschool, serving college students from its present campuses.
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One more constitution college is opening its doorways to college students in Manhattan.
Zeta Constitution Faculties has signed a two-year lease at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Washington Heights. The 35,000-square-foot web site will function the interim campus for Zeta’s first highschool, serving college students from its present campuses.
The situation will probably be Zeta’s eleventh college and its first enlargement into Manhattan, with earlier campuses in Inwood, the Bronx and Queens. Zeta presently serves over 4,000 college students in grades Pre-Okay by eighth grade, and can welcome its first ninth-grade class on the Higher Manhattan location. The property will bear vital upgrades earlier than its first cohort of scholars arrives within the fall.
Zeta was represented within the transaction with the owner, the Archdiocese of New York, by OPEN Impression Actual Property, a woman-owned industrial actual property brokerage and companies firm that makes a speciality of nonprofit and affect actual property. Zeta has labored with OPEN since 2018.
In September, Zeta opened two new colleges in Queens serving elementary college college students in Jamaica and Elmhurst.
“Creating Zeta High School seats for our Upper Manhattan and South Bronx communities has long been a part of our plan,” Zeta’s founder and CEO Emily Kim mentioned. “When students and families arrive at the start of school this August, they will walk into a beautiful building designed in every detail to prepare students for powerful college, career, and life trajectories that enable them to fulfil their highest potential.”
Based in 2017, Zeta makes use of a “social-emotional, mindfulness approach” within the classroom. Speciality applications together with chess, taekwondo, dance breaks and meditation exist alongside tutorial research. The college is devoted to the concept that “excellent education is a right of every child,” based on their on-line mission assertion.
“We repudiate the status quo of decades of educational failure that have plagued our nation,” the assertion reads. “We don’t accept that only those with means can have access to cutting-edge, innovative, self-actualizing, and evolving education that prepares kids for access and leadership in a modern world.”
Constitution colleges like Zeta are publicly funded however independently operated establishments, with no price to use or attend. In line with the Constitution Faculty Middle, greater than 15% of town’s public college college students attend constitution colleges as of 2025-26, or about 155,000 college students in all 5 boroughs.
There was a notable surge in recognition for constitution college schooling throughout the nation. Public constitution college enrollment greater than doubled from 2010 to 2021 to three.7 million college students nationwide, based on the Nationwide Middle for Training Statistics. In the meantime, experiences present that NYC public colleges skilled a big decline in scholar enrollment in 2025.
Inside the metropolis, constitution colleges have gained consideration for check scores that outperform NYC public colleges. Final yr, the New York Metropolis Constitution Faculty Middle launched a web-based listing to assist households navigate town’s 281 constitution colleges.
