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Our Mission: New Beginnings Family Academy provides students a meaningful, high-quality education through experience-based learning that helps develop essential social, emotional and critical-thinking skills. This gives all children a foundation to achieve their full potential at every stage of life.

Our Students: NBFA students come from families of varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds who value education. They are curious, eager to learn and willing to work hard. NBFA seeks students who are highly motivated to learn inside and outside of the classroom.

Our Curriculum: NBFA’s research-based and culturally responsive curricular programs and instructional practices ensure a solid grasp of essential literacy and math foundational skills, critical thinking and problem-solving, and rigorous preparation for challenging secondary education.

Our Purpose and Values: NBFA is a community of empathic learners; one that educates the whole-child, ensuring each student is equipped with the social-emotional and academic skills needed to be a lifelong learner.

Our Partnerships: Relationships with Fairfield University, Horizons at Sacred Heart, Quinnipiac University, Maritime Aquarium, Bridgeport Sailing School and Bank Street College of Education offer NBFA students exposure to a wide variety of subject matter, enrichment courses and extracurricular activities.

Our Future: Opening This Fall
With a strong focus on the formative years, NBFA will open a brand-new, state-of-the-art Early Learning Center on its urban campus, serving three-, four-, and five-year-old children. NBFA 's Early Learning Center will serve as a feeder to NBFA’s elementary school, which implements an emotionally responsive practice model designed to meet the needs of urban learners from early childhood through Grade 6.

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Who is Eligible For Enrollment?:

In accordance with NBFA’s enrollment policy, only students who reside in Bridgeport are eligible for enrollment. This residency requirement applies to all applicants, including siblings of current students. NBFA currently enrolls 499 students from Bridgeport. Applications are accepted for children entering pre-school (3- and 4-year-olds) through the 6th grade. To enter your child in the 2026-2027 blind lottery for enrollment at New Beginnings Family Academy, click the appropriate link below.

Attention: The Connecticut State Department of Education strictly prohibits the practice of enrolling a student in more than one or more magnet or charter school at the same time. Anyone caught dually enrolling their child/ren, may lose their slot in both institutions.

To enter your child in the 2026-2027 blind lottery for enrollment at New Beginnings Family Academy, click the appropriate online form below.

Pre-K3
Children who turn 3 years old on or before September 1, 2026, are eligible for Pre-K3. Apply Here!

Pre-K4
Children who turn 4 years old on or before September 1, 2026, are eligible for Pre-K4. Apply Here!

Kindergarten-Grade 6
Children who turn 5 years old on or before September 1, 2026, are eligible for kindergarten. Apply Here!

Open House: New Beginnings Family Academy offers tours and visits of its turn- of-the-century school building, located directly off Interstate-95 in Bridgeport. Information will be forthcoming.

Siblings: Families of students currently enrolled are given sibling preference. Please make sure to fill out an application for any siblings wishing to enroll.

The Wait List: The Wait List will remain in effect until all seats are filled. New applications must be submitted each year, as names on the Wait List will not be held over to the next year’s lottery.

Click here to meet members of our learning community and learn more about NBFA.

Pre-K Extended Day Program: Pre-K families who qualify for free and reduced price lunch are exempt from tuition. Others are subject to a sliding scale fee based on income and family size. Proof of income required.