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Spring Dance
Our annual Spring Dance is tonight, May 16, running concurrently with this evening's PA Meeting.
 
Regents Prep Program
Our Regents Prep afterschool program began on Monday, May 14, and continues weekly on Mondays and Wednesdays until closer to Regents week itself.
 
PA Executive Board Nominations
The Mark Twain Parents' Association Executive Board Elections for school year 2012-2013 will be held tonight, at the Parents' Association meeting, Wednesday, May 16 at 7:00pm. Please see the PA page for details.
 
P.S. Art 2012 Winner
One of our students was selected from over 800 applicants to have their work displayed publicly as part of the PS Art competition. The letter of congratulations can be viewed by clicking on the latest Headline at the right side of this page.
 
Specialized High School Acceptances
Read the article on the right for the latest info on another banner year of specialized high school admissions results.
 
Latest Admissions News
The remainder of the admissions process is overseen by the DOE's Office of Enrollment. Their schedule for the release of results is regularly available at http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/Middle/Calendar/default.htm
 
Twain Wins Blackboard Award
Founded by New York Family's parent company, Manhattan Media in 2002, The Blackboard Awards accomplish two worthy goals: They help New York City parents make informed choices about their children's education, and they honor and celebrate schools, principals and teachers of excellence from all education communities—public, private, parochial and charter—and from all grade levels, from nursery school through high school.
 
We are one of the FIVE New York City middle schools (and we're talking public, private, parochial and charter) selected for 2011 to be formally announced at a November 28 event. You can read more information about the award at blackboardawards.com.
 
Fourth "A" in a Row!!
The NYC Department of Education officially released the annual Progress Reports and we're thrilled to announce our fourth consecutive grade of "A"! We're particularly proud of two facts. First, the Progress Report emphasizes comparisons (when generating a grade) to our peer group consisting of the top 25 middle school programs in the city based mostly on 4th grade test scores rather than to typical NYC middle schools. And even more rewarding is that the "A" is largely based on student year over year progress rather than our obvious strength of simply looking at current test scores (which are of course high as well).
You can view more information about the Progress Report at the
NYCDOE site.
And you can view the actual documents themselves in PDF format:
 

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