About Us

Established in 2003 by Akil Bello and Hashim Bello, Bell Curves, LLC is a minority-owned socially responsible educational services company based in New York City. Over the last five years, the company has developed a diverse clientele comprised of non-profit organizations, educational institutions, young professionals, and college-bound students.

Our Mission

Bell Curves exists to serve the educational needs of underserved and disadvantaged communities. It accomplishes this mission by researching, recording and understanding the deficits that exist in its target communities and creating solutions that supplement already existing services.

Bell Curves management and staff are committed to ensuring that every individual who is ready to excel is provided the tools and opportunity to realize his or her fullest educational and career potential.

Our Partnerships

Bell Curves actively seeks partnerships with organizations and individuals that seek to provide access to high quality resources to disadvantaged and underserved communities. Bell Curves creates partnerships with such organizations to provide a broad spectrum of support for students in the pipeline to educational and career success. Partnering with organizations and schools allows teachers and administrators to focus on their roles while we provide the supplemental support services that we have the experience and resources to address more economically. Rather than selling generic programs, Bell Curves works with organizations and schools to evaluate and identify areas in which the skills and talents of our team and the resources at our disposal will most efficiently support our partners' existing programs.

Our Approach

The Bell Curves approach is to provide information and support to educational communities and professional networks in order to increase awareness and understanding of the necessary steps to achieve educational and career success. We also aim to provide low-cost educational and test preparation programs to allow students to bridge the divide between formal schooling and standardized testing.

Our programs provide students with the knowledge, recognition, and execution skills necessary to succeed on standardized tests and the information necessary to apply successfully to top schools. Contrary to popular opinion, we understand that true test preparation begins years before the test date and extends years beyond. Our programs are designed to help students understand and overcome the roadblocks to achieving their best performance on a test and in school. Rather than focusing on guessing strategies, we teach how to first properly analyze and approach each problem first. Then we teach reliable test-taking strategies that allow students to maximize their score. We design our curriculum in order to ensure that a test-taker will never be forced to guess or feel that guessing is the only option for approaching a problem.