The Community School for Social Justice is a proud member of the NY Performance Standards Consortium which means that instead of having Regents exams as all of the graduation requirements, some are replaced with Performance Based Assessment Tasks, or PBATs. PBATs require students to design and accomplish deep inquiry projects and defend thesis papers in four core subject areas. This is a real college preparatory school - PBATs are often more challenging than Regents exams and the long-term projects allow students to practice the skills they will need to achieve in a four year college. We are also the only NYC Outward Bound School in the Bronx. This means that CSSJ uses an approach to education that joins together demanding and engaging learning, community, and character in ways that lead to high achievement for all. It also means that we focus on character and community development through opportunities to camp overnight, strong post-secondary planning and team-building through Advisory. Advisory, or Family Group, is the core of our school. Our advisory classes meet four times a week with a teacher, or Family Group Advisor and stay together for four years with the same group of students.Through Family Group, students will work together and experience new things throughout their four years at CSSJ while receiving a high level of support from their teacher and their peers. At CSSJ, students work with a team of highly trained counselors, social workers and high school professionals who focus on individual student needs and their high school journey. Our College Advisory Team will ensure that all students are accepted into college and full-time college and career counselors work with them to explore post-secondary goals and complete college and scholarship applications. CSSJ students are exposed to opportunities that make them student leaders. As freshmen, they are mentored by seniors in our Peer Group Mentoring program, and throughout their time at CSSJ they are exposed to potential careers through our curriculum, they have the opportunities to go to Broadway shows, play PSAL sports, learn how to podcast and deejay and take part in an internship senior year through our Community Partnership with New York Edge. Our CSSJ students are performers, thinkers, activists and athletes and they are our greatest assets and our pride and joy!

Reports: School Budget | PTA Financials | Room Utilization

Teachers with more than 3 years of experience: 95%

Academic Highlights: Performance-Based Assessment Tasks (PBATs)

Other Features: College Courses On Site, College Trips, Community School, Community Service Expected, Expert College and Career Advisor On Staff, Internships, Online Grading System, Paid Internships

School Features:

• Performance Assessment School, which base graduation requirements on the successful completion of performance assessments in major subject areas in lieu of one or more Regents exams
• School whose primary location is co-located with another school
• Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Bilingual Guidance Counselors

This data was gathered from various NYC DOE reports: https://infohub.nyced.org/reports/students-and-schools/school-quality/information-and-data-overview

Note: Yellow bars indicate city-wide averages for the associated category

This data was gathered from the NYC DOE's demographic snapshots: https://infohub.nyced.org/reports/students-and-schools/school-quality/information-and-data-overview

This data was gathered from the NYC DOE's yearly quality reports: https://infohub.nyced.org/reports/students-and-schools/school-quality/school-quality-reports-and-resources

This data was gathered from the NYC DOE's Special Education Reports: https://infohub.nyced.org/reports/government-reports/special-education-reports

This data was gathered from the NYC DOE's yearly quality reports: https://infohub.nyced.org/reports/students-and-schools/school-quality/school-quality-reports-and-resources