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
To gain valuable feedback during the budget development process, the district is again offering the Budget Ambassador Program for the 2022-23 school year budget. To apply to participate in this program, click the link above to sign up.
Headlines include: Junior Achievement lessons on the road; Students help give career center a facelift; District launches on-demand tutoring; and Connecting our community through music!
Mrs. Scott has been a Gates Chili Spartan since 2015, serving as assistant principal at Gates Chili Middle School and, most recently, at Florence Brasser Elementary School.
How do you build a set of experiences that transcend the classroom and bring an entire district together to celebrate pure imagination? You renew a past partnership and bring students and the theatre together, better than ever!
The Gates community now has the opportunity to enjoy the bliss that music brings with the return of the Gates Chili Central School Districts Community Band.
Students are back in the libraries in the Gates Chili elementary schools and they’re eager to explore what the facilities have to offer!
We want to stress that we have NOT seen this posted in Gates Chili, however, we are aware of these posts being reported in other areas of New York State and in New Jersey.
