Our Mission

To bring life to our vision, the mission of our school is to: 

  • Nurture students’ independent thinking skills through rigorous experimentation, participation in active meaningful tasks, creative problem solving and self-evaluative processes to assess their own progress. 

  • Experience education as a lifelong endeavor where there is not always one path to the right answer and growth occurs through taking risks and making mistakes. 

  • Believe that students thrive in an environment that promotes care, fun, fairness and honesty.

  • Create and nurture an experience that promotes healthy emotional, social and intellectual growth and a passion for learning. 

  • Build a strong, open-minded and inclusive community that embraces unique identities, values, life experiences, learning styles and points of view.

  • Develop and embrace curricula that appreciate diversity, empathy and responsibility for self and others.

  • Promote partnerships between home and school where all members feel included, safe, joyful and informed. 


P.S. 234 Independence School is ranked within the top 20% of all 4,239 schools in New York (based off of combined math and reading proficiency testing data) for the 2017-18 school year.
— Public School Review