Admissions

Why Choose Yorkville East?

Yorkville East Middle School has a 50% screened 50%

limited unscreened admissions method.

What Does Screened Mean?

50% of students are admitted based on a screening process that takes into account academic record, performance on the most recent New York State Math and ELA tests, and a group interview.

What Does Limited Unscreened Mean?

50% of students are admitted using a limited unscreened process (which is essentially a lottery) in which priority is given to students who attend and sign in at an information session, school tour, or open house event.

 Contact  Us  

 1458  York  Avenue  New  York,  NY  10075  

Phone:  (917)  432-­‐  5413  Fax:  (917)  432-­‐  5418  

 Website:  

http://www.ms177.org  

ACADEMIC RIGOR

STUDENT VOICE

COLLABORATION

SELF-DIRECTION

EMPATHY

v We are a small school, which allows us to get to know each of our students as individuals and support them throughout their middle school experience.

v We embrace a holistic educational philosophy. We provide social-emotional and academic supports through a 3-year advisory. Advisory ensures that all students are known well and supported by at least one adult.

v We emphasize a project-based, interdisciplinary approach to learning so that students are prepared to make informed choices regarding their academic path.

v Argumentation across content areas develops student voice, allows students to delve deeply into world events, and strengthens problem-solving skills.

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Q & A About Yorkville East Middle School What extracurricular activities

does Yorkville East Middle School offer?

We will offer a variety of extracurricular activities both during the school day and after school. These include: v Physical Education v Art v Cerebral Diversity: Enrichment

classes that include Newspaper, Foundations of Drawing, Math Club, Debate, and Wildlife and Conservation.

v Afterschool Programs that include a variety of sports, drama, coding, yoga, photography, choir club, percussion & homework help.

What leadership opportunities do

you offer? We will be offering a variety of leadership opportunities for students, such as Student Council, Student Newspaper, and Community Outreach.

Will students take any Regents

Exams in 8th Grade?

Yes, students will have the opportunity to take the Integrated Algebra Exam in 8th grade.

Our Mission Yorkville East Middle School prepares students to be critical

thinkers, effective problem solvers and powerful communicators in a rapidly changing 21st century world. We engage students in an

education that broadens their interests and deepens their understanding of the world around them in both the social and

physical sciences. Through academic rigor, student voice, collaboration, self-direction and empathy, our students will have

the confidence, tenacity and skills for success.  

Core Values Academic Rigor is our commitment to challenging, enriching education that deepens thinking about the world around us.

    Student Voice describes our commitment to hear and enhance our students’ ability to express their thoughts, opinions and findings in a professional manner through individual and collective action.

     Collaboration is the commitment to teamwork and learning from one another.

      Self-Direction is the belief that the role of education is to provide the knowledge and confidence to choose an academic path and build on interests, ask questions and investigate the world.

 

 

Empathy is our deep regard for the people and the world around us, treating everyone and everything with compassion and understanding.

Curriculum  In each of our content areas, our students engage in a curriculum that supports student voice, self-direction and project-based learning. In ELA, we will be utilizing Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project curriculum. In math, we will use Connected Math Project 3. In social studies, we will be creating our own curriculum utilizing Stanford’s Reading Like a Historian curriculum and the New York State Scope and Sequence, and in science, we will utilize Glencoe’s Science Modules and Lab Aid Kit. In addition to the core content classes, there are 2 half-year interdisciplinary courses at MS 177. The first course is a humanities course that fuses key academic skills in ELA and Social Studies. The second utilizes a STEM-based curriculum. These courses promote analysis of current, modern-day occurrences and scientific processes, in which students create and develop their own experiments, track the development of world events and present their findings.