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Community Day

Although it wasn\’t a complete surprise to everyone, Community Day was an awesome day of getting to meet new people in the school and take part in teambuilding activities. Go ESA! All photo credit goes to senior Jonathan Maldonado.

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Volunteers of Legal Services

Essex Street Academy has a partnership with the law firm Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.  The law firm provides free assistance for families with legal issues that could disrupt the education of their child. They can provide legal help for immigration, housing, public assistance, food stamps, Medicaid, and S13. If you believe a lawyer may be

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Hard at Work

October 9, 2015 Students in Jenny\’s Senior Circle literature class, \”The Struggle To Survive\”, work together to get more out of the texts we read. In this photo you can see students working in groups to analyze a common theme they\’ve identified in 3 or more of Edwidge Danticat\’s short stories from \”Krik Krak\”. This

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ESA’s Got Spirit!

Every year, ESA hosts two annual spirit weeks, one during the Fall semester and one during the Spring semester. It\’s a time for our community to dress up, be silly and most of all, have fun. The schedule for this Spring\’s spirit week, which runs from May 4th to May 8th, is as follows:  

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How to Get Into Ivy League Schools

ESA would like to congratulate two amazing members of the Class of 2015, Grisel Isidor and Brianna Vizcaino, on their college acceptances! Grisel received full scholarships to Cornell University, Vassar College, and University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and Brianna received full scholarships to University of Pennsylvania and University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. Carla Cobb, class

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Winter Theater Production!

Congratulations to Jackson and the amazing cast of \”Witness for the Prosecution\” for another amazing ESA Theater Production! Alexander Eisenthal Arlester Carney Bryan Zapata Dylan Peritz Farzana Jewel Grisel Isidor Kenny Mendoza Maizy Greenberg Muse Mccormack Samantha Diaz Sasha Parrish William Chiu

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Welcome to ESA

Welcome to Essex Street Academy, a project-based public high school in the Lower East Side. Our mission is to prepare prepare all of our students for success in college and in life by treating them as individuals with specific strengths and needs, and appealing to their intellectual curiosity in our courses.

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