Welcome to Gates Chili Middle School! We are proud of our school and invite you to travel "inside GCMS" to learn more about the quality of our instructional programs, staff commitment, and community partnership. Gates Chili Middle School enjoys a proud tradition of academic excellence. We are an innovative school with an educational program that is challenging, integrated, and standards-based. Our instruction and support is focused specifically on the needs and characteristics of young adolescents. The single mid-level building within the Gates Chili School District, GCMS enrolls 900 students in grades six through eight.
GCMS establishes smaller learning communities by dividing a large school into three separate, small communities (6 – 8). The communities are designated a specific hallway in which the students attend their core, academic classes. For exploratory classes, the students have an opportunity to travel to different parts of the building and mix with other students.
Each community has an administrator, faculty, and 6th - 8th-grade students and teachers, with a student assignment process that ensures equitable distribution of students by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status (SES), language, gender, prior educational achievement, and ability/disability. The grade levels within each community are effectively teamed, creating a small personalized learning environment in which interdisciplinary teams share the same students. The three communities are named: Amerks, Red Wings, and Rhinos. The Assistant Principals are:
Our staff is dedicated to the service of children and their families. Together we teach and inspire excellence for all learners.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lisa C. Buckshaw, Principal
The food pantry, supported in partnership with Gates Chili Community Connections, is located at the Gates Chili Administration building.
Click this link to view or download the calendar at-a-glance for the 2023-24 school year. This calendar will also be mailed home as part of the budget issue of the district newsletter.
Students are inducted into NTHS based on their demonstration of superior performance in their CTE classes, including high attendance, grades, and leadership qualities.
This issue includes stories about free meals for all students, new district signage, the revival of an old tradition and much more!
Join the GCMS Outdoor Club Eclipse Ambassadors to learn more about the 2024 total solar eclipse!
Gates Chili High School students are spreading kindness in honor of World Kindness Day.
Gates Chili’s work is being recognized again this year by the New York School Public Relations Association.
Gates Chili High School student represented the district at the 2023 Rochester Business Hall of Fame.
