New City School will create a learning community that is diverse, knowledgeable, thinking, and caring, and will serve as a demonstration site for best practices in the integration of social and academic learning.

New City School is a supportive community, which actively engages students to build knowledge, ask meaningful questions, design creative solutions, open their minds, care for themselves and their community, and become skilled, responsive citizens of the world.

New City School will:

• Teach an ethnic and socio-economic mix of students in an urban setting
• Focus on a core curriculum that students will address critically and with depth
• Utilize instruction which is differentiated and challenging, active, arts-infused, interdisciplinary, and inquiry-based
• Model applied social and academic skills in collaboration with the larger community
• Launch students into the world as confident, competent, socially responsible citizens
• Share best practices with the education community by hosting workshops and trainings on the integration of social and academic learning, for pre and in-service educators.