Get more from InsideSchools

A Message from InsideSchools: The data below is the most up-to-date data available from City and State systems. We are working hard to update the narratives for all schools. We welcome your insights in the Comments section. Questions? Ask us!

Aspire Preparatory Middle School

2441 Wallace Avenue
Bronx NY 10467

Our Insights

What’s Special

Good attendance.

The Downside

School closing because of poor performance.

Aspire Preparatory Middle School was opened in 2006 in the MS 135 building with the hope that several small schools would be better than the large chaotic middle school they replaced. Aspire had some good teachers and a fun, energetic tone when we visited in 2007, but it never succeeded in boosting academic performance and the Department of Education closed it in 2014. 

In 2011, Aspire was placed on the list of the state’s most dangerous schools, and students told The New York Post that fights were common. When the city decided to close the school, PTA President James Wetherington complained that the DOE set it up to fail. “It's unfair you're going to shut us down,” he told WNYC. “But yet you've lacked to give us the funding to do any type of after school stuff to help these kids, you haven't shown up to give us any inspiration, any hope, any ideas.”

On the positive side, the school had a good attendance rate, as well as a partnership with Fordham University to provide tutoring, peer mediation and professional development for staff, according to the 2011 Quality Review.

The school was replaced by Bronx Park Middle School and Pelham Academy of Academics and Community Engagement. (Clara Hemphill, DOE statistics, news reports, June 2012; updated August 2014)

Read more

Contact & Location

Location

Allerton (District 11)
Trains: 2 Line, 5 Line to Allerton Ave
Buses: Bx26, Bx39

Contact

Principal
Steven Cobb

Other Details

Shared campus?
No
Metal detectors?
No

Was this information helpful?

Get more from InsideSchools

You may also like …

J.H.S. 080 The Mosholu Parkway

149 East Mosholu Pkwy
Bronx, NY 10467

Bronx Dance Academy School

3617 Bainbridge Avenue
Bronx, NY 10467

Comments

  • Is this your school? Please post any news, updates, events, changes, or other information!
  • We welcome questions, open discussions, and disagreements but comments with personal attacks, rude language, or those with seemingly malicious intent will be deleted.
  • Very long comments, those that contain links, or repeat comments may be blocked by our spam filter.
  • Problems? email us at contact@insideschools.org.
  • Users must comply with our Terms of Use.

×