Over the years, the students, parents and staff of The Bridges Academy (formerly Academic Enrichment Center Prep) have made up geographical ingredients of a “Heritage Stew” as we hailed from many countries the world over. From tiny island nations to major world powers, we have stirred together the makings of our international family. Our roots are planted in the countries listed below:
| Angola | China | Gambia | Ivory Coast | Nevis | South Africa |
| Anguilla | Costa Rica | Germany | Jamaica | Nigeria | Spain |
| Bahamas | Dominican Rep. | Ghana | Japan | Pakistan | Sudan |
| Barbados | Ecuador | Grenada | Kenya | Panama | Taiwan |
| Benin | Egypt | Guatemala | Korea | Peru | Thailand |
| Brazil | El Salvador | Guinea | Liberia | Philippines | Togo |
| Burkina Faso | England | Guyana | Mali | Puerto Rico | Trinidad/Tobago |
| Cameroon | Eretria | Haiti | Martinique | St. Thomas | United States |
| Cape Verde | Ethiopia | Honduras | Mexico | Sierra Leon | Venezuela |
| Chad | Ireland | Senegal | Viet Nam |
Bridges students have continued their academic success in other private and selected programs in local public high schools and later in the institutions as listed below:
High Schools
Private – Burke-Carroll-DeMatha-G’town Day-Gonzaga-Heights- Piney Woods-Queen Anne- Sankofa-Seton-Sidwell-Stone Ridge-Ujamaa-St. Albans-Heights
DCPS – Banneker-Cardozo-Coolidge-Dunbar-Ellington-Roosevelt-Sch. W/out Walls-Wilson- Woodson, Edison Friendship, Hyde Leadership, Eastern, Chavez
PG County – DuVal-Roosevelt-Northwestern-Crossland-Oxon Hill-Bowie-Douglass-Flowers
Montgomery County – Kennedy, Paint Branch, Blair, Blake
Fairfax County – Potomac
Colleges and Universities
Howard, Morehouse, Xavier, Florida A & M, Salisbury State, Pitt, UDC Bowie, Maryland, Hampton, Delaware St., Norfolk, Cheyney, Rensselaer, Delaware, Frostburg, A & T Vanderbilt, Arcadia, U. Delaware, Macalester, Temple, Kentucky St., Yale, Harvard, Trinity, Lehigh Princeton, Rutgers, UNC Central/Chapel Hill, Tuskegee, Johnson & Whales