Bank Street College of Education

Bank Street College of Education
Former name
Bureau of Educational Experiments, The Cooperative School for Student Teachers
Typeteaching school, private school, graduate school, research university, elementary school, preschool
Established1916 (1916)
FounderLucy Sprague Mitchell
AccreditationMiddle States Commission on Higher Education
Endowment$49.1 million (2019)
PresidentShael Polakow-Suransky
Dean of Children's Programs & Head of SchoolDoug Knecht
Academic staff
125
Students597 (2023, graduate school)
451 (2025, school for children)
Location, ,
United States

40°48′20″N 73°57′59″W / 40.80556°N 73.96639°W / 40.80556; -73.96639
CampusUrban
Websitewww.bankstreet.edu
2km
1.2miles
Bank Street College of Education

Bank Street College of Education is a private school, graduate school, and education research center located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It consists of a graduate-only teacher training college, Bank Street Graduate School of Education, and an independent nursery-through-8th-grade school, the Bank Street School for Children.