Which universities or schools did Zohran Mamdani attend for primary, secondary, and higher education?

1. Early schooling — the Bank Street foundation

Mamdani’s elementary years are repeatedly described in reporting as rooted at Bank Street School for Children, the progressive K–8 school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, where accounts note his early political engagement even in mock elections; multiple biographical entries list Bank Street as his early school ^{[1] [4] [5]}. Those profiles cast Bank Street as formative — a place of inquiry-based pedagogy that reporters and biographers cite when linking his youthful activism to later organizing — but the claim in the assembled reporting is straightforward: Bank Street for his elementary education ^{[1] [4]}.

2. Secondary school — Bronx High School of Science and the NYC public system

For his secondary education, Mamdani is described as a product of the New York City public school system who attended the Bronx High School of Science, where he helped launch a cricket team and engaged in student government activity, according to his Assembly biography and encyclopedic profiles ^{[2] [5]}. Official and biographical sources consistently present Bronx Science as his high school, and his Assembly directory explicitly frames him as “a graduate of the NYC Public School System” and names Bronx High School of Science as the institution he attended there ^[2].

3. Higher education — Bowdoin College, Africana studies

Mamdani completed his undergraduate degree at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in Africana Studies; national reporting and college profiles (including The New York Times and Bowdoin-focused coverage) specify his 2014 graduation and major in Africana studies, which many accounts link to his intellectual formation and later political work ^{[3] [2]}. Multiple overviews and profiles used in campaign and biographical materials repeat the Bowdoin/Africana Studies detail and place it at the center of his college-era development ^{[3] [6]}.

4. Reconciling occasional variants and what remains unconfirmed

The available sources show strong consistency on the three institutions above — Bank Street (elementary), Bronx Science (secondary), and Bowdoin College (undergraduate) — but occasional write-ups emphasize broader labels (for example, “NYC public schools” in official bios) rather than listing every grade-level placement ^[2]. Some profiles expand on early childhood in Uganda and South Africa before the family’s move to New York and interpret those years as part of a transnational upbringing that fed into his schooling choices, but the assembled reporting does not provide a separate named primary school in Uganda beyond the Bank Street reference for his U.S. elementary education ^{[1] [4] [7]}. When accounts give extra color about pedagogical style or political influence at each stop — most notably Bank Street’s progressive pedagogy and Bowdoin’s seminar culture in Africana studies — those are interpretive readings by reporters and critics rather than separate named academic credentials ^{[4] [3] [6]}. Where sources diverge or omit detail (for example, specific pre-Bank Street primary schools abroad), that absence is noted in the record rather than contradicted here ^[7].