Academic & Artistic Excellence
New York City Charter School of the Arts is an arts middle school in Lower Manhattan serving grades 6-8.
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Test scores do not define a school. But high academic achievement allows a school to define itself. We are proud of our record of continuous growth as a school with high student achievement without sacrificing our progressive approach to learning. Student average scores exceed citywide averages by 15-20% in both Math and ELA.
Located in a bright, sunny and private space at 26 Broadway, adjacent to Bowling Green in lower Manhattan — CSA is easily accessible:
…to inspire a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich rigorous academic scholarship and creative purposeful life.
Our Program is Comprised of Three Domains:
CREATE:
Required core-arts programming for every student 3 times a week
6th-Graders take Piano
7th-Graders take Visual Art
8th-Graders take Creative Connections: Master an academic topic while deeply exploring an art form.
All students have the opportunity to continue, or to explore beyond their core-arts with classes three times a week.
Ensemble (elective arts) include:
Theater, Digital Storytelling, CSA Writers, Visual Art, Dance, Piano, Strings, Vocal Music, Music Technology
Annual Performances:
Piano recital, School Winter showcase, Shakespeare play, Musical production, Ensemble exhibitions
LEARN:
Rigorous arts-integrated academic curricula spanning Humanities, Math and Science
Humanities is taught with the Wit and Wisdom curriculum which integrates ELA and Social Studies through the study of art forms and literature, history and modern culture.
Math utilizes iReadyMath which is a comprehensive program that implements problem-based learning, visual models, substantial daily practice, and differentiated interventions so that the content is taught with focus, coherence, and rigor.
Science instruction draws on the Next Generation Science Standards curriculum that provides all students an internationally benchmarked science education with hands-on laboratory experimentation.
All eighth-grade students take the Living Environment Regents.
THRIVE:
Students are engaged in CSA community-building through:
>Daily morning advisory
>Small groups
>Clubs, including Student Government
>Manhattan Youth after-school programming, including sports
Responsive Classroom is a set of evidence-based Social Emotional Learning (SEL) best practices that forms the basis of our socioemotional learning and leads to engaged academics, positive community, effective behavior management and creates a school environment that is developmentally responsive to the needs of each student. Teachers and staff at CSA weave these concepts throughout the school day.
