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
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.
District residents interested in running for the Board of Education must be nominated by petition. Interested individuals may pick up a petition from the district clerk.
Daniel McAlpin will fill the immediate vacancy at Gates Chili Middle School beginning April 17. Meanwhile, Garonia Parchment-Magnussen and Mayra Ortiz will succeed Mr. Richard Pound and Mrs. Jeannine Bezon, respectively, who are both retiring on June 30.
For nearly 10 years, the sidelines of Gates Chili winter athletic contests have featured an important group of students who are not there as athletes: the Gates Chili High School Pep Band.
Friday afternoons at Neil Armstrong Elementary School have become synonymous with celebration.
Students and teachers are working together to harness the power of technology for important social studies units.
Tickets are now on sale for this year's high school musical production, "High School Musical on Stage!"
The district e-newsletter is sent out each month and contains news and updates from around the district, current job openings, a list of upcoming events, and new this month--a list of recently-hired new staff members!
Gates Chili Central School District Senior Network Technician Roger Thaine, CETL, has received the 2023 ClassLink Magic Maker Award.
