The school was organized in 1955 by a small group of parents supported by The Women's Auxiliary of what was then The Presbyterian Hospital. Originally it was planned as a parent cooperative program to serve the children of interns and residents with an advisory board made up of Auxiliary members and prominent attending physicians. The first students were enrolled in October 1957 when the school opened in a small, ground floor apartment on West 165th Street between Broadway and Fort Washington Avenue. Seventeen children attended that first year. In March 1963 the school was granted its charter by the Board of Regents for the Education Department of the University of the State of New York. In September 1971 when the Bard-Haven Towers were completed, the school moved to its present facility in Tower I. The school currently enrolls over seventy children.
