Determine if your child is eligible
To apply for Fall 2025 Kindergarten, your child must be five (5) years old by December 31, 2025.
To apply for Grades 1-5, your child must have successfully completed a full school year in the immediately preceding grade.
After you apply, please visit SchoolMint to view the status of your application or to submit a new application for another student. Please note all applications submitted after 11 PM on Monday, April 1, 2025 will be placed on our waitlist. Additionally, please check to make sure your contact information is accurate in SchoolMint to avoid notification delays.
There is no cost to submit an application or attend. PAVE Academy Red Hook is a free public school open to New York City residents.
Contact us with lottery questions at [email protected].
PAVE Academy Charter School does not discriminate against or limit the admission of any student on any unlawful basis, including on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, gender, disability, intellectual ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, athletic ability, race, creed, gender, national origin, religion or ancestry.
Enrollment preferences
First preference will be given to returning students from the prior school year.
Second preference will be given to siblings of returning students. “Siblings” means two or more children that are related by having the same father and/or mother, through biology or legal adoption.
Third preference will be given to children of current employees.
Fourth preference will be given to students who live in Community School District 15.
PAVE Red Hook Lottery
Our lottery will be held at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, April 3, 2025 via Zoom and at PAVE Red Hook Charter School, 732 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231.