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Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School
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Key Facts
Last verified: 5/25/2026Location
New York, New York County, NY. Approximate area — the exact campus location isn’t verified yet.
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About
Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) is a coeducational, progressive independent day school serving Nursery through Grade 12 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Founded in 1921 by educator Elisabeth Irwin as an experimental public-school program and reorganized as an independent school in 1932, LREI is one of the oldest progressive schools in the United States. The curriculum emphasizes project-based learning, social justice, the arts, and intellectual inquiry over standardized testing, with no AP courses by design. The school occupies two Greenwich Village buildings — a Lower/Middle School on Bleecker Street and a High School on Charlton Street — and runs an extensive student-elected social action program. Alumni include public intellectuals, journalists, and artists, and graduates matriculate to a wide range of selective liberal-arts colleges and research universities.
Admission
- Test Required
- No
- Interview
- Required
- Essay
- Required
- Recommendation Letters
- 2
- Deadline
- Fri Jan 09 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Rolling Admissions
- No
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Data Sources (4)
- LREI AdmissionsData from: 2025-26 · Collected: 5/25/2026
- Deep enrich iter6Data from: 2025-26 · Collected: 5/27/2026
- Collected: 6/3/2026
- Collected: 6/6/2026