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 continues to monitor the situation around a new coronavirus known as COVID-19. You can find information and resources at this link.
We want to take a moment to thank our GC, that is our GREAT COMMUNITY, for their patience, understanding and willingness to help as we navigate the ongoing COVID-19 situaiton. Use the hashtag #GCcares to show how our community is helping each other.
Junior Calvin Finger placed second overall in the high jump, jumping 6 feet and 6 inches. Junior Brennan Hong placed seventh overall in the pole vault clearing 14 feet.
Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped to make Brasser's annual Family Fun Night a great success.
For years, schools have focused on equality, aiming to provide an educational environment equal for all students. In recent times, that paradigm has shifted to equity, that is, giving everyone what they need to be successful.
Paul Road is equipped with a brand new sensory hallway thanks to the Gates Chili Education Foundation.
More than 500 bottles of toiletries were donated to GCCSD, which are being combined into care bags by Walt Disney students.
