The New American Academy

The New American Academy is a Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York public school, PS 770, which opened in the fall of 2010.[1][2]

The New American Academy
PS 770
Address
60 East 94th Street

Crown Heights, Brooklyn
,
New York

United States
Information
TypePublic school
Established2010 (2010)
HeadJessica Saratovsky
Websitethenewamericanacademy.org

History

The school opened to kindergarten and first grade and will gradually grow with the students each year to include fifth grade.[3][4] The school was founded by and is led by Shimon Waronker, who has a bachelor's degree from Rabbinical College of America and a master's degree from Touro College.[3][5][6] The New American Academy puts sixty children in a single, large classroom.[7] The New American Academy has four teachers with sixty students (for a 15:1 ratio) in one classroom.[5] Waronker modeled The New American Academy after Phillips Exeter Academy's methods.[8]

The New York City Department of Education withdrew a proposal to expand The New American Academy with a middle school after less than ten percent of The New American Academy's first class of third-graders passed state examinations in the spring of 2013 before a vote by the Panel for Educational Policy on October 30, 2013. Just two students out a class of twenty-two students passed the 2013 spring New York state math and reading tests.[7] As of November 4, 2013, more than half of The New American Academy's first class (the class of 2010–2011) of forty first-graders were no longer enrolled or failed to be promoted to the fourth grade, city statistics show.[7]

See also

References
  1. Brooks, David (March 22, 2012). "The Relationship School". The New York Times.
  2. Otterman, Sharon (January 10, 2011). "New American Academy in Brooklyn Is an Experiment in Class Size". The New York Times.
  3. The New American Academy Archived February 7, 2012, at the Library of Congress Web Archives, website and brochure to parents.
  4. The New American Academy at Lincoln Terrace Park Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Insideschools.org.
  5. "School Comprehensive Education Plan : 2010-11" (PDF). Schools.nyc.gov. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  6. "NY Times – article on former student of Rabbinical College of America | Lubavitch of New Jersey Regional Hdqts". Rabbinical College of America. February 8, 2008. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  7. Monahan, Rachel (November 4, 2013). "Brooklyn's New American Academy Suffers Setback After Poor Exam Results". New York Daily News. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  8. Molloy, Joanna (November 20, 2010). "New Schools Chancellor Cathie Black Should See How Bold Ideas Life Crown Heights School". New York Daily News. Retrieved May 7, 2016.


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