Thank you for your interest in being a part of East Side Community School!

Current 8th graders are welcome to apply to East Side, through the MySchools account, for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year. The deadline for families to submit their high school applications will be March 1st, 2022.

As a Consortium School, we believe that students thrive when they are given the opportunity to study topics in-depth and apply their learning to real-world situations.

Instead of a focus on taking tests, our students demonstrate their skills in practical terms: they design experiments, discuss and debate issues, make presentations, discover and apply mathematical concepts, write reports, and defend their work to outside experts.

All applicants to East Side are expected to reply to one of the two prompts below.  Please take a few minutes to review our mission and values and in 500 words or less respond to one or both of the prompts:

1) How do you think a school with this approach to learning will help you grow academically, personally, and creatively? What do you think you have to offer a school community like this?

2) We admire students who are flexible in their approach to learning and willing to take intellectual risks that move them out of their comfort zone. Reflect on a time when you were intellectually challenged, inspired, or took an intellectual risk - inside or outside the classroom. How has that experience shaped you?

Admission to East Side is based 100% on your response to this prompt.  Please note that we anticipate that at most, we will have 25 new seats available in September due to the fact that most of our students come from our 8th grade.  Finally,  to remain true to our school's mission, 70 % of our seats are offered to students who qualify for free or reduced lunch.

We do look forward to reading your reflective pieces of writing.