Welcome to Gates Chili Middle School! We are proud of our school and invite you to travel "inside GCMS" to learn more about the quality of our instructional programs, staff commitment, and community partnership. Gates Chili Middle School enjoys a proud tradition of academic excellence. We are an innovative school with an educational program that is challenging, integrated, and standards-based. Our instruction and support is focused specifically on the needs and characteristics of young adolescents. The single mid-level building within the Gates Chili School District, GCMS enrolls 900 students in grades six through eight.
GCMS establishes smaller learning communities by dividing a large school into three separate, small communities (6 – 8). The communities are designated a specific hallway in which the students attend their core, academic classes. For exploratory classes, the students have an opportunity to travel to different parts of the building and mix with other students.
Each community has an administrator, faculty, and 6th - 8th-grade students and teachers, with a student assignment process that ensures equitable distribution of students by race/ethnicity, socio-economic status (SES), language, gender, prior educational achievement, and ability/disability. The grade levels within each community are effectively teamed, creating a small personalized learning environment in which interdisciplinary teams share the same students. The three communities are named: Amerks, Red Wings, and Rhinos. The Assistant Principals are:
Our staff is dedicated to the service of children and their families. Together we teach and inspire excellence for all learners.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lisa C. Buckshaw, Principal
Gates Chili is again being hailed as a leader in diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I), this time by Top Workplace USA.
Gates Chili Central School District has been recognized by the New York School Public Relations Association (NYSPRA) in the 42nd Annual Communication Awards. The district was awarded an Award of Excellence for the "A Bit of Budget" video series and an Award of Honor for the budget issue of the district newsletter.
The learning never stops at Gates Chili, and that goes for all district staff, as well as students. The Gates Chili Central School District staff gathered at GCHS for the Superintendent’s Conference Day on Oct. 8.
We're gearing up for the Spartan Way Coat Drive - a chance for the Gates Chili family to show their Spartan spirit and donate new or gently-used coats, hats or gloves/mittens!
Gates Chili students and staff represent more than 30 different countries and nearly as many different languages.
Several Gates Chili High School Peer Leaders were hard at work volunteering at Foodlink's monthly food distribution in mid-October.
GCHS students filled the field house for a pep rally on the Thursday afternoon before the Homecoming football game to celebrate a successful start to the school year and to settle some class rivalries with games and contests.
