Building Great Oaks

Thank you for visiting our page, and welcome to the founding year of Great Oaks Charter School NYC!

The mission of the Great Oaks Charter School is to prepare its students to succeed in college. We will do this by instilling in students the scholarship, discipline, and honor necessary to be successful in college and to pursue a career of their choice.
Great Oaks' objectives are to create a rigorous, supportive middle and high school program that ensures its graduates have the requisite knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to earn a degree from a competitive four-year college or university. We strongly believe that all students can succeed in an atmosphere of high expectations and caring relationships where they receive considerable individual attention.
The Great Oaks Charter School of New York City will open its doors in the Fall of 2013 with 110 students in 6th grade and will grow by one grade each year until it will serve 550 students in grades 6-12. The School, which expects to draw students from families living below Canal Street in Manhattan, has set aside 25% of the seats in its lottery for English Language Learners. After two years the school plans to relocate to a newly renovated building on Governors Island.


We need your help to set up our teachers and students with the resources they will need to be successful! Please consider making a donation, no matter how small, to help us establish a strong founding year.


Great oaks, from little acorns grow.