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Why Gateway?
• No Tuition Fee
• No Admissions Test
• Early College Courses
• Varsity Sports
• Honors Program
• Internships
• Six Years of Alumni Support
School Leadership
Gateway Academy is committed to the continual hiring, training, and development of diverse school staff and leadership. Driven by school leaders who share a commitment to fighting the status quo, we provide our students with a high-quality education and support their success from cradle to career.
Yolanda Floyd
Principal
Roberta Washington
Vice Principal of STEAM
Allison Addona
Vice Principal of Instruction
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our programs
Internship Program and Community Service
We partner our students with some of Newark’s leading institutions to place our students with organizations like the Abbott Leadership Institute, NJPAC, Newark Public Library, the City of Newark’s Department of Law, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark Public Radio, and many more.
Internship Program
Our students spend an entire school year interning 20-25 hours a month learning crucial skills that set them up for a lifetime of success.
And by working at organizations so central to the heart and soul of Newark, students gain a deeper understanding of their city and an appreciation for the people of their community.
Internships also allow students to make connections and develop skills that serve them well beyond the end of their placements.
Jerome, a Gateway Academy alumnus, interned at Gadget Software for three years, where he discovered a passion and a talent for programming that brought him to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on a full scholarship. Temilade, a Gateway Academy junior, learned from her supervisors how to be confident in herself when going on job interviews and developed critical networking skills to help her build relationships in her fields of interest.
Community Service
We are committed to giving back to Newark and our communities.
Each fall, we host an annual Day of Service, where our entire school community comes together to support local organizations, including Community Foodbank, Branch Brook Park, Greater Newark Conservancy, La Casa de Don Pedro, and New Community Corporation.
Throughout the year, our students continue to regularly volunteer at these organizations and others, embedding themselves even deeper into their communities while doing meaningful work.
“The work that I do at PPCS helps diminish the opportunity gap. I am able to provide my students with opportunities that did not exist for me as a young girl who attended a small public school with minimal resources.”
-Manoushka
Enrichment Programs and Extracurriculars
Our athletic programs and clubs provide enrichment opportunities for all students to discover new talents or sharpen their existing skills.
This programming is key in ensuring our students are well-rounded and competitive when applying to college, scholarships, and summer opportunities.
Sports at Gateway Academy include basketball, track and field, cheer, and volleyball.
We offer year round varsity athletics to give all of our students the opportunity to excel in the classroom and on the court!
In our clubs, students can learn acting, music, art, and more.
We believe it is vital to close the exposure gap for our students, so we encourage students to apply for summer internships and enrichment programs. We rely on the support of our community members to ensure that students participate in programs that challenge them. Examples of recent partners include:
- Sadie Nash
- Rutgers Pathways to Achievement and Success Program
- Ignite Newark
- Boat Building with Project USE
- Greater Newark Conservancy
Our honors program, Voyage, offers a rigorous interdisciplinary pedagogy to students who have a proven academic track record.
Voyage students will enroll in honors classes in the arts, math, and humanities, some Voyage students will additionally matriculate in dual-enrollment programs at local colleges and universities, will work as year-long interns with a Newark business partner, and benefit from off-campus cultural enrichment trips. Students will need to meet cumulative GPA and ACT benchmark requirement and complete an application, which includes one personal statement and one teacher recommendation. Students who have not built a proven academic track record may also apply to the program if they demonstrate a desire and capacity to opt into the challenge. The program will play a dual role in both preparing students for social and academic challenges, while also improving students’ academic profiles so they may transition to more selective colleges and universities upon high school graduation.
Academics
Regardless of our students’ academic standing when they come through our doors, we make it clear that we believe each one can graduate from college and work hard to make it happen.
“As a council, your collective lives will be filled with ups and downs, old and new members, detentions, honor roll, summer school, college acceptances, and after four lightning-quick years, graduation. After the smoke clears and the dust settles, you’ll forever cherish the memories and the love that brought a group of individuals together to form an everlasting bond.”
-Unattributed
Council
Starting in ninth grade, all students are assigned to a group of 9-15 students with a council coach at the helm.
Council serves as a safe space for each student, a place where they know they can joke, laugh, cry, ask for help, discuss their fears, and talk about their dreams.
While councils are critical for academic support, they offer so much more throughout the course of each student’s time at Gateway Academy.
Students become sisters and brothers, council coaches become role models and support systems, and together, councils build a community where students feel safe, supported, and loved even on their toughest days.
College Persistence
Our mission is to ensure our students graduate — not from high school, but from the college of their choice. We have a number of programs and supports in place, from the first day of freshman year all the way through college graduation, to ensure that happens.
- Futures classes. Every student, starting freshman year, enrolls in a “Futures” class, where they learn the skills they’ll need to thrive in college and the workplace. Futures courses offer free SAT and ACT test prep for juniors and seniors, help students apply for financial aid, support resume and personal statement writing, and feature workshops on topics like navigating predominantly white spaces (like the colleges many of them will go on to attend).
- “Voyage” honors program. We give our highest-achieving students access to more challenging academic coursework through our Voyage program, offering extra-rigorous classes and the chance to matriculate in dual-enrollment programs at local colleges.
- College visits. Many of our students will be the first in their families to attend college. So we bring all 380 of our students on tours of college campuses four times a year where they get to understand what college looks, feels, and even tastes like.
- College placement. We maintain a college placement office with six full-time staff members dedicated solely to helping our students choose the college that will launch them into their futures. Once they are at those colleges, we maintain a robust support system to help them with anything they need, including assistance with paperwork (financial aid, transfer, re-enrollment forms, etc), regular advising sessions, a library of resources that includes textbooks and technology for the college level, and support with test prep for graduate-level entrance exams like the LSAT and GRE.
Even though our graduates are no longer on our campus, Gateway Academy supports all of our alumni for six years following high school graduation to help ensure matriculation through and graduation from their post-secondary choices.
Each graduate has a dedicated advisor in our Office of College Placement helping resolve small missteps and tackle big hurdles to continue moving towards earning a degree. We follow up with our alumni frequently through monthly phone check-ins and regular in-person meetings and provide additional resources including a textbook library, computers, and yearly financial aid application assistance. Beginning Spring 2017, Gateway Academy proudly partners with the Opportunity Network, which provides additional resources and support to all PPCS alumni.
In 2016, less than 14% of our city had earned a college degree, so our alumni support is paramount in our strategic plan to achieve our mission.
This programming is only possible due to generous donations from our Friends of Gateway Academy. If you would like to help our students in completing our mission of college graduation, consider donating today.
“What trips up a lot of students from first-generation and lower socio-economic backgrounds, its not that they cant go to the classroom and figure out what the professor is talking about… its persistence. Higher education demands the ability to recognize when you need to see the professor or go to the campus writing center. We work hard to build our students resiliency so they can be successful when the stakes are at their highest.”
–Tahirah Jordan Crawford
Game Changers
At Gateway Academy, our success is due in large part to the relationships our teachers and staff are able to build with our students and families. We invite you to learn about our school through the stories of these relationships in our Game Changers series.
College Prep For ALL Students
Choosing your high school is a big step on your journey to college graduation. Gateway Academy believes that all students should have the option of a college preparatory program.
docs & info
Health & Safety
- Lead Sampling Plan
- COVID-19 Health and Safety Guidelines
- Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB)
Curriculum
Chapter 27
In April 2020, Governor Phil Murphy issued an executive order that became P.L.2020, c.27. This law provides guidance for the continuity of instruction in the event of a public-health-related district closure so that LEAs can utilize virtual or remote instruction to satisfy the 180-day requirement pursuant to N.J.S.A. 18A:7F-9.
Below, please find a link to the Remote Plan in the event of a closure due to a health