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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 950 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 Gates Chili Central School District offers Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) for students who will be 4 years old by Dec. 1, 2019.
Local and national news have been covering a social media concern that is alarming to parents and could be harmful to students. This recent increase in online safety concerns is an appropriate time to revisit students’ online behaviors in school and at home.
The Gates Chili Central School District is now on Facebook and Twitter.
The Gates Chili Education Foundation Board of Directors wishes to extend our sincere thanks for your enthusiastic support of our Harlem Wizard fundraiser event on March 1st. More than 1,000 people attended the event, which yielded more than $3,500 for the Foundation.
Gates Chili Continuing Education is proud to host a free community mental wellness fair featuring 30+ vendors, a panel discussion and a screening of "Suicide: The Ripple Effect" on Thursday, April 4 from 5-8 p.m.
Four seats on the Gates Chili Board of Education are open for election. District residents interested in running for the Board must be nominated by petition.
The Gates-Chili Chamber of Commerce is proud to announce its 7th Annual College Scholarship Award to be awarded to a senior at Gates Chili High School.
Today’s students are digital natives with technology impacting their lives daily.
Gates Chili earned the top spot in the Junior Achievement of Central Upstate New York’s first ever JA Stock Market Challenge on March 1.
Congratulations to the Gates Chili Middle School students who earned high honor roll and honor roll during the second quarter. For a full list of names, click the headline.
Senior Colton Crane earned himself a 37-1 record and a Section V first-place title and a fourth-place title at the state wrestling tournament.
The Friends of the Gates Public Library is sponsoring a poetry contest open to all students attending Gates Chili schools, or Gates Chili students attending schools elsewhere. Contest prizes will be awarded in three divisions: K-5, middle School and high school.
For the past four years, Kelsey the therapy dog has been working at Neil Armstrong Elementary School alongside her owner, School Social Worker Christine Magee.
