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Bennett High School
South Park High School
SPHS inspires students to achieve academic excellence through a community that honors tradition, celebrates diversity, promotes social responsibility, and instills a desire to learn.
New York CityBRONX
Bronx
Laboratory High School
Bronx Lab prepares students for the world by providing a vigorous liberal arts, college preparatory experience. We empower students to make informed choices about their learning and their lives. We engage them in a challenging environment that is collaborative, experimental, and democratic. Graduates will be thinkers and global citizens.
Explorations
Academy
Explorations Academy's mission is to provide all students with an academically rigorous college preparatory program so they graduate from high school ready for college. A unique aspect of the program is the participation of experts in various fields who work with students in project-based learning at cultural institutions and college. Students will be enrolled in classes on college campuses during grades 9-12.
Holcombe L. Rucker School of Community Research
The mission of Holcombe L. Rucker School of Community Research is to foster a community that collaborates to produce confident young adults with a commitment to creative learning and academic excellence.
We will promote high expectations for students in all areas: academic, artistic, physical, health, citizenship and service. We will commit the resources necessary to establish and maintain:
Pablo Neruda
Academy
Mission Statement: To prepare students for college and life beyond as highly literate, critical thinkers who are also compassionate, engaged world citizens.
School for Excellence
Mission Statement: The School for Excellence will develop in all of its students strong intellectual skills of literacy, mathematics, science and critical thinking and an informed sense of social responsibility. Through our multicultural curriculum that integrates instruction in creative arts with academic courses, students’ perceptions will be extended beyond their immediate circle to encompass a broader world-view. Through our project and portfolio-based curriculum, students’ natural conceptual and creative skills will be encouraged towards innovative ideas for their community. Our graduates will be able to succeed in the higher education or career opportunities of their choosing. All adults in the school community will work with parents, guardians, and community organizations as partners in reaching these goals for our students.
BROOKLYN
Academy for Young Writers
Mission: The Academy of Young Writers is a small, 9-12 learning community with writing at its core. We believe that excellent teaching, small class size, close relationships and high expectations lead students to college. College is the goal for every one of our students. Courses are organized around the investigation of challenging and relevant questions. Classes are student-centered and project-based. There is a heavy focus on building skills in the areas of communication: writing, presentation and self-expression through the arts. Students will participate in an advisory program to develop close relationships, promote personal growth, and work on college readiness. At our full capacity we will serve approximately 430 students.
Arts & Media Preparatory Academy
Practice in creativity and problem solving is essential for those aspiring for meaningful work in a world that is rapidly changing. Our students, especially those previously underserved, will face new challenges—personal, societal, and economic—demanding new ideas and tools to resolve them. In today’s world of meaningful work, it is customary for teams of people to tackle issues together creatively, develop ideas, conduct research, and organize information in order to produce new products, services, or solutions. This is the model we have in mind for Arts & Media Prep because we understand that education is an effective means toward a healthy mind, a satisfying life and belief in the possibilities for positive contribution to our world.
The mission of Arts & Media Prep, in partnership with the Institute for Student Achievement, is to offer a caring small-school environment that prepares students to be college ready, life-long independent learners, creative thinkers, and students confident in themselves and cooperative with others. Through a focus that utilizes problem solving, research, and the habits of mind, we will offer academically challenging standards-based curricula that will stimulate curiosity and encourage high expectations while providing support. Our focus on inquiry, literacy, the arts, science and technology will help students to think critically about their world and prepare them for life’s future challenges. We value effort toward improvement, and we hope to assist all students to find their passion.
Brooklyn
Community High School for Communication, Arts & Media (BCAM)
Mission: Responding to this high stakes reality, the Brooklyn Community High School of Communication, Arts and Media provides students a small, personalized learning environment with school, family, and the surrounding Brooklyn and citywide community in a collaborative educational partnership.
Brooklyn Preparatory High School
Brooklyn Prep is a small, rigorous college preparatory high school. Our mission is to ensure that all students acquire the knowledge, skills and habits to succeed in a challenging college program and ultimately, to take responsibility for our world. We challenge our students through an intensive two-year biology and chemistry science program organized around real-world themes and problems. Our math curriculum is designed around real-world applications that test and expand student understanding of math concepts. Our art and graphic design program channels their creativity and teaches them valuable computer skills. Writing skills are honed in every subject, through creating and revising thesis papers, poems and stories, literary essays, math journals, power point presentations, webpages, art analyses and detailed science lab write-ups. We are a portfolio school. Students present and defend their best work at the end of each semester through an interdisciplinary portfolio process. In all classes, students use the arts and technology to show what they have learned.
Bushwick School
for Social Justice
We are developing a community of young leaders demanding the best from themselves today and working together for a more just tomorrow. We are committed to providing a challenging curriculum that empowers students to succeed and to be active in the social, cultural and political life of their communities and their world. We are committed to ensuring that every student has constant and consistent opportunities for intellectual engagement and becomes confident in facing the pressing issues of the day.
Foundations
Academy
Mission Statement: Foundations Academy is dedicated to enfranchising its students by providing a secondary education in a small school setting that will prepare every student for a collegiate experience, as well as leadership opportunities during their lifetime, through the effective implementation of a rigorous liberal arts, leadership, social justice, and service learning curricula.
Life Academy High School for Film And Music
Mission Statement: LIFE Academy High School for Film and Music is a premier educational institution serving all students. Through the integration and study of audio production, filmmaking, and new media into our curriculum, we are committed to successfully preparing our students to attain academic excellence. In partnership with The Institute for Student Achievement, Life Academy incorporates the seven core educational principles to empower students to achieve their goals through collaboration, inquiry-based project learning, and a dynamic curriculum. Life Academy is a small, safe, college-preparatory environment where students pursue their learning in an atmosphere supported by the entire school community. School leaders work in collaboration with teachers, parents, students, special service providers, support staff, and neighborhood partnerships to meet students’ individual needs. We strive to make learning interesting and relevant, capture students’ imaginations, and provide outlets for creative expression. At Life Academy we motivate students to think critically, while discovering and developing their unique and creative talents.
Victory Collegiate High School
Mission Statement: Victory Collegiate believes that education is the most powerful instrument for sparking the revitalization essential to urban communities. We seek to ensure a productive, diverse community of learners willing to take suitable risks, learn from their mistakes, and support each other as we examine social problems, peak social awareness, develop social conscience and work toward community and personal growth.
MANHATTAN
Bayard Rustin Educational Complex (BREC)
Mission Statement: Our mission is to prepare our students for a challenging and rewarding life by engaging students in rigorous academic work, promoting excellence and nurturing the development of the whole individual.
Park
East High
School
Park East High School is a neighborhood school serving the East Harlem community. We are committed to providing a supportive and inclusive environment and to developing initiatives and programs that ensure students meet the highest standards possible. Through a rigorous academic curriculum, students are provided with all the tools they will need to successfully complete a 4-year college or university. Park East is a community that focuses on teamwork and collaborative learning between students, parents, faculty, the surrounding community, community-based organizations and local junior high schools, to achieve its mission. We aim to instill in our students the responsibility, self awareness and the opportunity to learn, so that they can achieve maximum success. No student is overlooked.
QUEENS
Queens High School of Teaching
Queens High School of Teaching is an ISA partner school. The school is comprised of three small learning communities: Freire, Montessori, and Emerson.
Excelsior Preparatory High School Excelsior Prep is a collaborative learning community offering a rigorous challenging academic and multicultural program experience with an emphasis on technology and the humanities.
Long Island City High School Academy
Mission: To provide a resoundingly high level educational experience to all students. As a school with a successful history in preparing youngsters for achievement in the twenty-first century, Long Island City High School ensures that all its students take the courses which challenge their minds to the utmost. In addition to encouraging four years of study in math, science, and foreign language, we encourage active study of art, music, culinary arts, and technology. Consequently, students supplement the traditional academics and athletics with a healthy balance of aesthetic activities.
Queens
Preparatory Academy
Queens Prep is dedicated to the academic empowerment and social development of all of its students. We are focused on providing our scholars with a rigorous college preparatory curriculum within a stable, respectful and caring support network.
Students will engage in inquiry-based learning by applying content area knowledge to real world issues.
Long Island
Hempstead High School
The mission of the Hempstead School District, a culturally diverse public school system, is to ensure that students achieve personal growth and academic success by providing a challenging curriculum in a safe and orderly environment that prepares all students to become productive citizens in a global society.
Wyandanch High School
Wyandanch’s Vision Statement: When the children of Wyandanch depart the halls of each level of our institutions, they will be scholarly, imaginative, confident, competent and empowered change agents for the 21st Century and beyond. They will possess a profound sense and command of their history, an expert proficiency in oral and written communication, the essential skills in mathematics and computer sciences, a comprehensive understanding of morals and ethics, a passion and love for literature and the arts and a fervent desire to be of service to mankind. Our schools will have met their physical, emotional, social and academic needs so that they will want to attend the most prestigious colleges and universities in America. They will become builders and titans, revolutionaries, artists, scientists, entertainers, politicians, and entrepreneurs. They will not just exist in the world. They will forever change it!
Westchester
Ossining High School Academy Mission Statement: Ossining High School provides an academically and socially adaptive environment, emphasizing an academically stimulating surrounding with quality instruction. In addition, all students will come away with a sense of respect and appreciation for individual and cultural diversity and for an equal educational opportunity for all.
Peekskill High School
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