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
Gates Chili CSD needs your help to finalize additional details of its reopening plans. While these plans are still tentative and subject to approval by the governor, it is critical that the district begin finalizing these plans in order to communicate student placement with families.
You may recall, in accordance with current NYSED and NYSDOH guidelines, Gates Chili cannot open fully in person. This means that we will move forward with our hybrid and remote instruction models when we begin school on Sept. 14.
Gates Chili submitted plans for an in-person, remote and a hybrid model instruction. After review of these plans, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will make a final decision on reopening schools.
Headlines feature Capital Project Update, 150,000+ meals served during COVID-19 school closure and a full synopsis of our Class of 2020 commencement ceremonies.
Thank you again to all the families, staff and most of all, our graduates, who took part in this wonderful day. We are so proud to have been able to hold live ceremonies and provide a compilation video for our Class of 2020. OHANA!
Gates Chili is pleased to be able to proceed with kindergarten screening for the 2020-21 school year. Guidance from health officials will be followed to ensure a safe and comfortable experience.
