Bridges: A School for Exploration and Equity

MS 915 focuses on creativity, field trips, research, and hands-on exploration, while also encouraging students to engage with their community and work towards social justice. Students study studio art for three years, and 6th and 7th graders take part in drama classes. 

Two times each year, students engage in a two-week study of one of our planet’s problems. They read, talk to experts in the field, interact with the community, and visit some of the many cultural, historical, and educational institutions of New York City. Examples of past projects can be found on the school's website.

Field trips may include the Children’s Museum of the Arts, NY Aquarium, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Center for Architecture, Red Hook Community Farm, City Growers at Brooklyn Grange, Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum, and Bushwick Graffiti & Street Art Walking Tour.

All students have science class five or more times a week; 8th graders have a 90-minute weekly session to develop research skills, read nonfiction, and write lab reports. Students connect learning to the real world through fieldwork at local sites like Brooklyn Bridge Park and the American Museum of Natural History. Eighth-graders take algebra and living environment Regents classes. 

MS 915 offers a wide range of free after-school activities, including art, music, dance, and sports. Students can explore creative writing, STEM projects, fashion, and culinary arts, or stay active with basketball, soccer, running, and jiu-jitsu. There's also dance therapy and opportunities to learn at the Brooklyn Music School.

Some students complain of bullying on the NYC School Survey.

Founded in 2012 as the middle school grades of PS 8, MS 915 opened as a separate middle school and under separate leadership in September 2019.  MS 915 moved from the Westinghouse High School Campus to 491 Dean Street in 2024.(Lydie Raschka, web reports, November 2024)