Closed No longer operating (2025)
The Hicks Street campus closed in 2025, one of four New York City Guidepost schools shut after parent company Higher Ground Education filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Only the Williamsburg campus still operates in NYC.
Snapshot
Brooklyn Heights
Hicks Street runs through the heart of Brooklyn Heights — landmarked brownstones, the Promenade over the harbour, and quick access to Manhattan on the 2/3, 4/5, A/C and R.
What happened
Guidepost Montessori grew under Higher Ground Education into the largest Montessori operator in the world, with more than 150 schools. Lender foreclosures took most of them, and Higher Ground filed a pre-arranged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 17, 2025, emerging that December. Its New York City campuses — Brooklyn Heights among them — closed during the collapse. Listing services recorded the school as closed from mid-2025. If you're seeing it in an older directory, it is no longer enrolling.
A lingering registration, and what came before
Before Guidepost, 212 Hicks Street housed an AltSchool campus; AltSchool’s New York schools passed to Higher Ground for the 2019–20 year and were rebranded Guidepost. One consequence is still visible in city data: the DOHMH register returns an “AltSchool Preschool” school-based child-care record at this address, listed active with a placeholder permit expiry of 2115 and a last inspection in February 2023. That is a stale trade-name registration that never lapses on its own, not evidence of a school operating here now — we found none. Flagged so nobody re-reads that record as a contradiction.
Open Brooklyn alternatives
Nearby operating options in our directory include Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (a separate, unaffiliated school in Cobble Hill), Montessori Day School of Brooklyn and Albee Square Montessori — or browse the full directory.
Note on the name: Guidepost Montessori at Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Heights Montessori School were entirely different, unrelated schools. The latter is open, independent and AMS + NYSAIS accredited. Older search results conflate the two.