172 Chandler Ave
Staten Island, NY 10314

This school is a mini prison they could careless about your child's safety. They have gang activity drugs sex bullying smoking and the staff does nothing. My kid was wrongfully suspended for being bullied the Principal Mr. Melee is a warden. Politics and protocol is what they like to use. The violence is out of control opt your children out immediately my kids use to love school until they got here. There is a handful of teachers who do care but that's it. My kids literally have to look over their shoulders hoping they won't get attacked. Trust nobody. The lunches are disgusting make sure to send your child with their own lunch. This school needs to be shut down. I do not recommend your child going here unless you want them being treated like inmates and being harassed by staff and students.

I began the 2022-2023 school year with high hopes for this school with a stellar reputation that has LONG PRECEDED the current principal. But, my high hopes for my academicaally gifted child soon turned sour when ALL it seemed the school wanted to do was find problems with my non-disruptive and honor roll student EVEN if a problem NEVER existed (and then my child's very respectful and quiet demeanor also magically became a problem in the eyes of the school). There are SERIOUS issues with bullying on the part of both the staff and students as well as EXTREMELY SERIOUS health and safety concerns that the school takes every opportunity to sweep under the rug (and the problems can be traced to the atrocious and despicable behavior by the person in charge of the school). The assistant prinicipals are good but they, unfortunately, came over with the person in charge and must try to often smooth things over. And, whoever gave the review about how the school was ill-equipped to deal with students with IEPS was spot on but the craziest thing is that the school will want to put MORE kids on IEPS for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING (even handwriting)! It seems they want perfect zombies for students and if the child does not fit the nonsense zombie mode...the student is deemed to be a problem! And, what's even wilder is the fact that these "professionals" making IEP and disability diagnosis recommendations are NOT healthcare professionals or, even, at the very least, a PhD in psychology, so please take EVERY opportunity to call them out on their nonsense opinions! And, if a child is unhappy and having his or her spirit broken...PLEASE listen because the child's feelings are VALID!!! In addition, students have gotten screwed by ridiculous amounts of homework/classwotk that is rarely checked along with the unjustified withholding of earned points on tests and report cards (and good luck trying to find out a freaking reason why because the teacher will take no accountability and deflect like the rest of the school administration). Lastly, I have noticed some thinly veiled racist practices by the school (ex: grouping the majority of Chinese and Indian children in classrooms) so be weary if you are a minority or even look like a minority because you may be treated differently as well as rather poorly .

The school was much better under the prior leadership. The current principal doesn’t fight for the students at all. He embraces this remote learning nonsense and even offered up the school as a vaccination hub. Very disappointed in the change in and now lack of leadership and our children are no longer being educated. My son worked his butt off to get into the scholars program, and he’s not receiving the education he earned.