National Spanish Exam

  In April, forty students from GSA chose to participate in the National Spanish Exam. They competed both on a national and local level. Isaiah Merchant (9th grade) and Maggie Kinealy (7th grade) received honorable mention for scoring higher than 50% of test-takers nationwide. Locally, GSA took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for middle school […]

Great Success at MathCon Competition 2013

April 20th, a select group of GSA students in grade 5th- 9th, accompanied by Mrs. Thurau, Mr. Ozkaya, Ms. Halpin and Mr. Lucas, competed in Concept Schools MathCon Competition in Chicago.  The students who were selected to compete had previously placed in the top 6 from their grade level in the MathCon Online Competition.  Michael […]

Police Station Visit

  On Tuesday, May 28th, 2013, a group of GSA students, teachers, a parent and an administrator visited the local police station. The group met with Police Captain and received a tour of the facility.  The goal was to help build a positive relationship with important community members and to make them aware of GSA’s […]

GSA Field Day

GSA celebrated field day on Thursday May 23. Every student was assigned a field day group and a field day teacher. Each group met several times before field day with their teams, doing ‘get-to-know-you’ activities, creating team t-shirts, and playing several games. Each individual team was put into two groups, the green team and the […]

IMP Summer Camp

Over Memorial Day weekend, students in the Ivy League Mentoring program went to Trout Lodge to celebrate all of their hard work this school year.  Every week this year, the students completed extra mathematics and language arts assignments.  In their weekly group meetings, they were challenged academically, physically and personally.  They had the chance to […]

Testimonials

Hello, I am a parent of a 6th grader, Gabriella Radosevich.  We are enjoying our first year at middle school this year.  I find that it was so much easier last year to establish relationships with the grade school teachers because of my involvement at lunch duty and at pick up times I was able to […]