The most recent addition, the BFS Preschool, has gained prominence as one of the city's premier early learning centers.

[5] The Academy Award-winning 1981 documentary Close Harmony chronicled how a children's choir of 4th- and 5th-graders from the school joined with elderly retirees from a Brooklyn Jewish seniors' center to give a joint concert.

In 2000, the school's headmaster, who had been in the position for ten years, resigned at the request of the board of trustees over allegations of financial mismanagement; audits revealed a deficit of $900,000 for 2000 and $375,000 for 1999.

In late 2019, collective bargaining over contracts began, and union representatives participated in negotiations over the layoffs of about 30 teachers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.

[3] In August 2020, however, the school's leadership move to dissolve the faculty and staff members' union, citing a National Labor Relations Board decision several months earlier that reversed an Obama administration-era NLRB decision that allowed employees of religiously affiliated institutions the right to form unions.