{"id":370872,"date":"2026-10-12T10:38:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370872\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:38:59","slug":"tribeca-citizen-lower-manhattan-middle-school-proposing-a-high-school-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370872\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca Citizen | Lower Manhattan Middle School proposing a high school addition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Image capture 2024 \u00a9 Google<\/p>\n

Lower Manhattan Community Middle School<\/a> \u2014 aka LMC \u2014 will present a proposal to become a 6 to 12 school at this month\u2019s Community Board 1 Education Committee meeting, as part of its process to pitch the same to the Department of Education. This seems like a big deal to me! It\u2019s still in the early stages, however.<\/p>\n

The CB1 meeting is Tuesday, October 13, at 6p in person at 1 Centre or live on Webex.<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the DOE presented a proposal to CB1 that would co-locate an AI\/STEM high school \u2014 then called Next Generation Technology High School \u2014 with LMC, which has occupied the 6th and 7th floors of 26 Broadway since September 2010. The Education Committee and the full board wrote a resolution against the idea, arguing that the co-location would create space constraints and operational challenges.<\/p>\n

Since then the entire idea for the AI school has been scuttled.<\/a> (More soon on the AI-driven private school in Fidi\u2026) And also since then, the Urban Assembly School has left the education complex at 26 Broadway (the complex houses several public schools on upper floors, as well as shared facilities on the ground floor).<\/p>\n

LMC has grown from about 200 students to about 350 over the past 16 years for grades 6 through 8. My guess is they would need space for at least double that if the school continues. The school uses an entrance lobby with four elevators at 81 New Street; other schools in the building use other entrances. The gym is on the ground floor and is shared with Richard Green High School of Teaching, limited access to gym classes.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifferences in funding, programmatic resources, and access to special education services between schools in the building can create tensions when students notice disparities in facilities or support,\u201d the community board wrote in its resolution.<\/p>\n

LMC\u2019s founding principal previously requested that the school expand to a 6\u201312 model, the comittee said, and noted that there are no 6\u201312 public schools in Lower Manhattan currently, \u201ca model that is in demand among families.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cResearch suggests that reducing multiple school transitions may help minimize dips in student achievement and support adolescents\u2019 social, emotional, and cognitive development,\u201d the committee added.<\/p>\n

\u201c[While] expanding LMC to a 6\u201312 model would add additional students, the school would be able to fully manage student movement, scheduling, and use of shared facilities within its own program,\u201d CB1 wrote.<\/p>\n

More soon after the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image capture 2024 \u00a9 Google Lower Manhattan Community Middle School \u2014 aka LMC \u2014 will present a proposal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-370872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}