The Brooklyn High School of the Arts in Boerum Hill was founded in 2000. The large school building reverberates with the sounds of instruments and singing, just walk by one afternoon and you'll see. Approximately 700 students attend the school, and auditions are required before enrolling in a preferred artistic medium.
Gersh Academy's Hauppauge center, the "I Am I Can" middle school and high school, provides educational and vocational training for children with spectrum disorders. Its philosophy is a student will do well if they can, not if they want to. Classes are tailored to individual students' needs and interests. Courses of study include New York State Regents diploma, Advanced Regents diploma, college-bound courses and vocational training. Gersh Academy also offers a life skills program that teaches hands-on cooking, gardening and shopping through a school store with the objective of teaching children to be fully independent.