Join our campus for BENCO’s annual Bard-BQ! We hope you’ve been having a wonderful, restful, and safe summer. Come pick up your summer reading book, get some good grub, and meet your faculty and administration.

Learn about why we do summer reading, how it ties into your seminar class and polished piece of prose, and tell us all about your summer fun and what you’ve been getting into in the community!

Race/Ethnicity of BECNO students: 94% Black or African American; 5% Latinx; 2% White; 4% Native American or Alaska Native; 1% Native Hawaiian

Gender of BECNO Students: 69% Female, 31% Male

83% of students starting BECNO’s full day program graduated high school with an Associates Degree and an average of 68 credits (Class of 2024).

Students in BECNO’s half day program earned an average of 23 college credits (Class of 2024).

BECNO students access meaningful postsecondary opportunities and resources:

• 100% of BECNO graduates enrolled in college first-fall after high school (Class of 2023)

See here for list of colleges enrolled in by recent BECNO alumni.