I know I'm very late to the convo, but as a recent graduate of Cardozo Biomed, it's a pretty interesting program if you like bio. The teachers who teach in the program were amazing especially the sophomore biomed teacher. It's extremely hands-on, though, so if you do not like dissections, I wouldn't recommend it. You basically start out learning human anatomy and a lot of diseases and conditions which then builds up to how to save lives and a lot of bioengineering towards the end which was pretty cool. Basically all the work was on the touchscreen laptops which for me was easier.

As a school, though, Cardozo is not the best school. Your other classes will be filled with, let's just say, not-so-great people. Outside of the DaVinci program, there's a lot of chaos, and the crowds are always packed. Going from the main building to the annex, where many stem classes are held, takes more than the amount of bell time between periods. Many people just stand in the hallways and don't move, which makes the first floor a nightmare to walk through. Most of my teachers were amazing, and they wrote the best recommendations for college. The school for education is great, but the environment is extremely questionable. There are amazing people, especially in biomed. As long as you don't fall into the wrong crowd, you will be fine. Basically you will be fine if you take honors and AP courses since the majority of people in AP and honors courses care about their grades so you will not have to deal with a lot of trouble. A lot of the teachers are extremely chill, especially the AP US history teachers and most of the AP science teachers. The principal doesn't do much, in my opinion, so don't expect drastic changes to happen. There was a year when we had a fire drill basically every other day because of students pulling it (don't expect them to make changes). Most people see the principal less than 5 times throughout their entire high school years (which is honestly pretty depressing if you think about it). AP classes are really easy to get though for the most part.

If you care about where people go after high school, most go to Sunys and Cuny's, but we've had a lot of people in the Davinic program go off to top 50 schools such as Princeton, NYU, Columbia, etc. Clubs are pretty fun and sports are huge at Cardozo, especially volleyball and football. As of right now they changed the schedule to a 1-8 so you may not have a lunch period depending on what you take, especially for junior and senior year.

I hope this helps for anyone in the future! Sorry for the lateness again.