New York Interschool is a consortium of eight Manhattan independent schools known for their high academic standards, outstanding teaching, and traditions of quality. 

We run curricular and extracurricular programs that serve students, teachers, administrators, trustees, and parents, linking our schools to the greater New York City community.

 
 

Every January, the Browning Form IV boys along with students from the other single-sex schools in New York, Brearley, Chapin, Collegiate, Nightingale and Spence, make the trek upstate to the Frost Valley YMCA camp to discuss issues surrounding their shared identity as high schoolers and New Yorkers. Learn more about the program and the crucial role that Form VI peer leaders play in these discussions.

FOR STUDENTS

Whether it’s a seasonal leadership program, immersion camp or full-year curriculum, Interschool offers classes, seminars, discussion groups and workshops to its students year-round.

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FOR FACULTY + ADULTS

Interschool and its partners offer various programs to enrich, engage and recruit faculty of color to work in New York City area’s independent schools.


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FACULTY DIVERSITY SEARCH

Interschool conducts the Faculty Diversity Search (FDS) program which recruits and places teachers of color and other under-represented groups in New York City independent schools. Each year FDS works with approximately 25 member schools and over 50 talented candidates and independent schools. FDS has placed over 500 faculty and administrators in the New York City area.

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Frost Valley Retreat

The Frost Valley 10th grade trip, an annual two-day retreat to the Frost Valley YMCA Camp in Claryville, New York, took place in January 2025. Students from our single sex schools - Brearley, Browning, Collegiate, Nightingale and Spence - have an opportunity to experience a "larger campus" and get to know their classmates in other schools in a coed setting. About 300 tenth graders, 40 faculty members and the Interschool staff all take part.

Spring Bird-a-thon

Interschool hosted its first Bird-a-Thon with the Wild Bird Fund in Central Park. Students from all divisions, faculty, and families joined us to search for dozens of species of birds - including rose-breasted grosbeak, blackburnian warbler, and red-tailed hawks. Everyone had a wonderful time connecting with people from other schools and remembering Flaco, the wild owl, whose life and journey in Central Park inspired this event.