GED Schools in NYC

Union Settlement Association

• The Union Settlement Association has been providing free adult education in New York for more than 20 years. Union Settlement offers classes to adults of all ages and abilities for three levels of GED preparation: GED literacy, pre-GED, and GED. Individual students are assessed and classes are tailored around student's abilities in the GED subject areas, with instruction provided in math, social studies, science, reading and writing. Students also are trained to understand the format of the GED test and given strategies to control test anxiety.

  Union Settlement Association
  237 East 104th St.
  New York, NY 10029
  212-228-6016
  unionsettlement.org/adult-ed#coursesactivities

Community Impact at Columbia University

• For over 20 years, Community Impact has been offering GED classes at Columbia University, a prestigious Ivy League university. CI offers classes on the Columbia campus and at satellite locations in Harlem, with morning and evening classes in English and an evening class in Spanish. All CI teachers are carefully chosen volunteers, and teach only one GED subject area, so students will have different teachers for math, social studies, reading and writing, and science. Students generally must be 19 years old to take classes, but 18-year-olds can also be accepted with an interview. Students are grouped as pre-GED if they will need more than one semester to prepare for the GED test, as intermediate if they plan on taking the GED test after one semester, and as advanced if they plan on taking the test and applying to colleges.

  Community Impact at Columbia University
  204 Earl Hall
  New York, NY 10027
  (212) 854-9621
  communityimpactatcu.org/programs/jeep/gedpre-ged

HANAC, Inc. Education Center

• Founded in 1972, HANAC, Inc. is a social services organization based in New York City that provides youth, senior and immigrant services, and employment and education programs. HANAC provides pre-GED and GED classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights from September through June, and is open to anyone pursuing a GED. Students can stay in the program for however long it takes them to pass the exam. Approximately 650 people take pre-GED and GED classes at HANAC each year. HANAC also provides combined English as a Second Language and GED classes in Astoria, Queens.

  HANAC, Inc. Education Center
  55 West 125th Street, 9th Floor
  New York, NY 10027
  212-996-3949
  hanac.org/internal_pgscr.php?id=148&idsub=187