Overview

The new school opened in September 2006 with students in grades pre-kindergarten through 4. An additional grade will be added each year until the new school reaches the capacity of a pre-kindergarten through grade 8 school. For the first year, Goldie Maple Academy consisted of three classes on each grade level (Pre-K – 4). All students will be selected through our application process. In grades K, 1, 2 and 4 one class at each grade level will be an ASTRE(gifted) class. Students for the ASTRE classes will be selected through the ASTRE screening process. Students for the remaining classes at the kindergarten through grade 6 level will be selected through School Choice. We have a full day session for all classes, including the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten programs. All  classes will be maintained at a small class size ratio.Starting in 2008, selected classes in grades 2 -6 will be departmentalized. The students will have a subject specific teacher for the content area classes.

In 2009, we were recognized as the second Core Knowledge Visitation site in New York State.

The instructional program of the Goldie Maple Academy is Core Knowledge, a nationally recognized research-based school reform model, which advocates a curriculum that is designed to present a coherent sequence of skills and knowledge that build cumulatively year by year. Students that entered the Goldie Maple Academy were able to benefit from the Core Knowledge sequence. This sequential building of knowledge not only helps ensure that children enter each new grade ready to learn, but also helps prevent the many repetitions and gaps. Grade-by-grade sequencing of topics is important because it gives teachers some assurance that children will come prepared with a shared core of knowledge and skills, and because children learn more effectively when instruction follows the basic psychological principle that we learn new knowledge by building on what we already know.