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
We are asking families to continue to submit applications to the Gates Chili school nutrition department, even though free meals will be offered through the 2021-22 school year
Ultimately, our goal is to bring students and staff back safely. Our plan for the fall takes into consideration the CDC guidelines, New York State Education Department guidelines and recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Effective Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, all staff, students and visitors of the district are required to be masked inside all buildings while the county falls under the substantial transmission designation. Masking outdoors is not required.
Headlines include: Congratulations Class of 2021!; A return to Seabreeze for GC fifth-graders; Music and excellence at GCHS; and more!
Gates Chili Central School District is proud to congratulate members of the Class of 2021 for their designation as Black Scholars by the Urban League of Rochester, Inc.
Gates Chili Central School District congratulates the eight recent graduates of the Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES Center for Workforce Development Commercial Driver's License (CDL) Training class.
Gates Chili Central School District voters approved the proposed budget for the 2021-22 school budget and three additional propositions, in addition to filling three Board of Education seats.
