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The North Broward Preparatory Schools believes that its mission is to provide students with a challenging and dynamic college preparatory program enriched by expansive opportunities in the arts, athletics, community service, environmental studies, travel study programs, and technology. The North Broward Preparatory Schools offer a nurturing and supportive environment, in which students are motivated to excel and maximize their potential. Within a climate of mutual trust and respect, The North Broward Preparatory Schools encourage students to develop their individual abilities and talents as well as to achieve the fullest measure of personal growth and intellectual self-discovery. Shared responsibility and respect for others are integral to a learning partnership among parents, students, the community, and faculty.

Rules are few but well defined. Respect for the rights and feelings of others lead the effort to reinforce the understanding that to live in the type of community and society one desires, the individual must support and accept responsibility for not only following, but helping others follow the rules established.

Parents especially, are asked to help enforce this concept. First and foremost, to ensure that they not only provide verbal support of each rule and the importance of active participation in assuring others do likewise. But, that as parents they also model the behavior that will do more to determine whether the child will grow up to be the kind of person that they desire him or her to be than all the rhetoric and written information will ever deem positive.

The North Broward Preparatory Schools (NBPS) is an accredited (SACS, FCIS), college-preparatory, independent, non-sectarian school serving families of the pre-kindergarten through high school age groups in the Palm Beach and Broward counties of Southern Florida.

There are two programs at NBPS: The North Broward School offering students the best of traditional independent school education, and Lighthouse Point Academy, offering a similar education to students with mild learning differences in a more personalized program. The capability of Lighthouse Point Academy students mainstreaming into the North Broward School classes is a unique feature of the school. The focus of both programs is to enable students to achieve their individual best in a caring, exciting, and creative environment.

Founded in 1957, the school included grades MK through 8 on the school's original campus located in Lighthouse Point until 1997. From 1997 through June 2004 this lower campus included Grades PK-5. Grades 6-8 moved to a brand new campus in Coconut Creek. The freshman class added to the 6th-8th grades classes for that '97-98 school year officially signified the beginning of the school's expansion through a complete PK-12 grade program. A sophomore class was added for the 1998-99 school year with a junior class in 1999 and the school's first senior class in the autumn of 2000. The Class of '01 with its high school graduation commencement represented the school's charter graduating class. In January 2002, The North Broward Preparatory Schools obtained our second lower school which was previously the Nova University School in Coral Springs and named it The North Broward School at Coral Springs which includes grades PK3 through 5. In June 2004 the original NBPS lower school campus in Lighthouse Point relocated their grades PK through five classrooms, administrators, teachers and students to a brand new school on the 80+ acre Coconut Creek Campus.

Consistent with the School's dedication to providing opportunities enabling students to achieve their individual best, both campuses include state-of-the art technology equipment and networking capabilities. Access to individual classroom assignments as well as controlled access to the world wide web via wireless radio frequency (RF) technology. Both intranet and internet resources are available for students and faculty alike on a 24-hour basis from home as well as all classrooms and library media centers.

There are 2,000 students presently enrolled on both campuses with a ratio of one teacher for every 9 students. An active co-curricular and extracurricular program is offered at all age levels. Admission is competitive and students are accepted without regard to race, religion, or national origin. Financial aid is available at all grade levels. An academic honors scholarship program is also available for students in grades 9-12.