ESA’s Got Spirit!

Every year, ESA hosts two annual spirit weeks, one during the Fall semester and one during the Spring semester. It\’s a time for our community to dress up, be silly and most of all, have fun. The schedule for this Spring\’s spirit week, which runs from May 4th to May 8th, is as follows:   […]

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How to Get Into Ivy League Schools

ESA would like to congratulate two amazing members of the Class of 2015, Grisel Isidor and Brianna Vizcaino, on their college acceptances! Grisel received full scholarships to Cornell University, Vassar College, and University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and Brianna received full scholarships to University of Pennsylvania and University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Carla Cobb, class

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Winter Theater Production!

Congratulations to Jackson and the amazing cast of \”Witness for the Prosecution\” for another amazing ESA Theater Production! Alexander Eisenthal Arlester Carney Bryan Zapata Dylan Peritz Farzana Jewel Grisel Isidor Kenny Mendoza Maizy Greenberg Muse Mccormack Samantha Diaz Sasha Parrish William Chiu

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Welcome to ESA

Welcome to Essex Street Academy, a project-based public high school in the Lower East Side. Our mission is to prepare prepare all of our students for success in college and in life by treating them as individuals with specific strengths and needs, and appealing to their intellectual curiosity in our courses.

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Strengthening Our Community

Essex Street Academy is fortunate enough to have received a grant from New York City\’s Expanded Success Initiative which was designed to tackle the educational achievement gap and increase the number of Black and Latino young men who graduate high school prepared to succeed in college and careers. Through a partnership with Outward Bound, ESA

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Jackson is a Big Apple Teaching Award Finalist!

Our very own Jackson Shafer was one of the finalists for the 2013 Big Apple Teaching Awards! Based on nominations from parents, colleagues, principals, students, and members of the public, 50 New York City teachers were chosen to be finalists based on their ability to demonstrate exceptional success impacting students’ learning, excellence in their instructional practice, and

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