Al-Noor School

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'''Al-Noor School''', [[Arabic alphabet|Arabic]]: مدرسة النور, is a co-ed gender-separated private school located in the [[Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn|Greenwood Heights]] neighborhood of [[Brooklyn, New York City|Brooklyn, NY]]. It is a school dedicated to the teaching of [[Islam|Islamic Culture and Religion]], with its curriculum including [[Arabic]], Islamic Studies, and Quran along with traditional subjects such as Math, Science, Social Studies, and English. Admission to Al Noor is based on an entrance exam, personal interview and previous school records.<ref name=brave>{{cite web|title=Where Islam Meets 'Brave New World'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/education/where-islam-meets-brave-new-world.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 11, 2001 |access-date=22 February 2015 |last1=Bahrampour |first1=Tara }}</ref>

The school was founded in 1995 and today serves over 650 students. The school runs from Pre-K to the 12th grade, offering Regents High School diplomas. The first graduating class was in 2002.

==School== An annual art fair is held offering prizes to students participants at each school level. The curriculum includes a wide range of AP classes offered including AP Human Geography, AP Calculus, AP Chemistry, AP World History, AP Psychology, AP English, AP Physics, and AP Computer Science AP. The school offers a highly competitive gifted & talented enrichment based program catered towards high school juniors and seniors entering the engineering, design and architecture world in a collaborative program aimed at increasing Muslims and women in science and math fields.

The school participates in the annual MIST, Islamic School Quran Memorization, and Islamic School Spelling bee competitions in the Brooklyn area. The school offers the debate team, competitive urban design squad, math club, drama club, Girls Who Code team, and Model UN.<ref>{{cite web|title=ART FAIR AT AL-NOOR SCHOOL Islamic school's motto: We love to see you tile|url=http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/24/dtg-bb-al-noor-art-fair-2014-06-13-bk_37_24.html|website=[[The Brooklyn Paper]]|date=June 9, 2014 |access-date=24 February 2015}}</ref>

==Community involvement== The Park Slope Flea Market launched in 2009 is located in the rear of the Al-Noor School 25,000-square-foot parking lot, bringing more than 60 vendors each Saturday and Sunday to the block between Fourth and Fifth avenues. Merchandise ranging from clothing, jewelry, antiques to middle eastern food and clothing takes place starting in May through the fall. Students intern and volunteer at a multitude of organizations including, but not limited to: the [[Maimonides Medical Center]], Methodist Hospital, [[Museum of Modern Art]], the [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|Guggenheim]], the MET, [[Barclays Center]], Aviator Sports Arena, Lutheran Hospital, [[Citibank]], [[Chase Bank|Chase]] and [[Wells Fargo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=How bazaar! A Park Slope flea market joins the crowd|url=http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/13/32_13_bm_ps_flea.html|website=[[The Brooklyn Paper]]|date=March 31, 2009 |access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=City flea markets|url=http://www.timeout.com/new-york-kids/shopping/city-flea-markets-markets-fairs-1|website=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]|access-date=22 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Former P.S. 321 Flea Market Vendors Move South to Greenwood Heights|url=http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131023/greenwood-heights/former-ps-321-flea-market-vendors-move-south-greenwood-heights|website=[[Joe Ricketts]]|access-date=22 February 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222174231/http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131023/greenwood-heights/former-ps-321-flea-market-vendors-move-south-greenwood-heights|archive-date=22 February 2015}}</ref>

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==External links== *http://www.alnoornyc.org {{Education in Brooklyn}} {{Islamic schools in the United States}}

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