Our Mission

The Bronx Charter School for Children is a public elementary school that provides a rigorous academic curriculum supplemented with opportunities for enrichment, ensuring academic challenge and support to all students. Nurturing the potential of each child is our goal. We value the integration of literacy and math skills with all other content areas and encourage active inquiry. We are an educational community of teachers and learners, working together to emphasize the highest standards and levels of achievement, promote positive leadership and healthy choices, and develop resourceful, responsible, and thoughtful citizens of tomorrow.

Our Vision

The Bronx Charter School for Children empowers children to meet and exceed high academic standards, develop a life-long passion for learning, make healthy choices and become community leaders.

Our Philosophy

The Bronx Charter School for Children fosters the natural curiosity of children and helps them learn through discovery and discipline. Children learn best when they construct understanding from experiences and when they are expected to do high quality work; they must be empowered with a life-long passion for learning.

The BCSC draws strength from the diverse races, talents, languages, cultures, and interests of its community members. We work together to create a school environment that emphasizes the highest standards and levels of achievement, promotes positive leadership and healthy choices, and develops resourceful, responsible and thoughtful citizens of tomorrow.  The Bronx Charter School for Children encourages the integration of literacy and math skills with all other content areas and promotes independent and reflective learners.

Core Values

We believe that our students...

• Can and want to learn.
• Will produce high-quality work.
• Will flourish in a safe and nurturing learning environment.
• Will be responsible and reflective.

We believe that our staff and families...

• Must establish strong partnerships, essential for ensuring mutual support and achieving academic excellence.
• Must promote respect and cooperation through healthy communication.
• Must encourage students to develop a set of morals and ethics to guide them in life-long decision-making.

We believe that our learning community...

• Is a place where everyone is continuously working and learning together to expand their understanding of what is possible for themselves and their world, where achievement and success are expected for students, parents, teachers, and other staff members.
• Is a dynamic school environment that addresses the comprehensive needs of the whole child: academically, socially, emotionally, and physically.
• Encourages students to develop critical-thinking skills, taking responsibility for and being reflective about their own learning.
• Must employ effective teaching strategies to foster mastery of skills and concepts.
• Must actively utilize data to inform high-quality, standards-based instructional planning and implementation.