Type Public Principal Maria Timo Grades 6-8, SE Phone +1 718-891-9005 Number of students 1,230 Gender Mixed-sex education | School district 21 Staff Get 80+ Enrollment 1230 Mascot Bobcats Color blue/gold | |
Address 1401 Emmons Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11235, USA Similar Mark Twain IS 239 for the Gifted, David Boody Jr High Sch, Intermedi School 96, WA Cunningh IS 234, Coney Island Prep | ||
The Bay Academy is located in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. Formerly known as the Reynolds Junior High School, it is a magnet school that offers courses in a wide range of disciplines, including creative writing, art, drama, math/computers, science, and music, featuring wind instruments, stringed instruments, and vocals. Admission into Bay Academy is selective. Applicants are required to take two "talent tests" and must be from School District 21. In the 2008-2009 academic year, the school had an enrollment of 1,051.
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Alumni have gone to prestigious high schools such as Midwood High School, The Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences, as well as specialized high schools such as Stuyvesant High School and Brooklyn Technical High School. Also, Alumni have gone on to do great things with their lives.
Admissions changes
The Bay Academy formerly accepted students from across the city. With the retirement of Marian Nagler and the appointment of Maria Timo as principal in 2009, students are no longer accepted from other districts. The graduating class of 2011 was the last with students from outside District 21. Admissions still require two rigorous "talent exams," with the talent being the student's choice.
Talents
Talents are specialized classes, determined by a student's entrance exam. They include creative writing, science, math/computers, dance, athletics, art, wind instruments, stringed instruments, drama, and vocals. Media talent is not part of Bay Academy.
Foreign languages
As part of Maria Timo's changes to the school, Spanish, French, and Italian. Latin is learned
Special programs
The Bay Academy offers a wide range of special classes, including Regents-level courses in biology and living environment integrated algebra, as well as several programs intended to give students valuable life skills, such as the Stock Market Game which is for Computer Math Talent only. Additionally, the school takes part in the national Arista/Archon honors society.
Performances
Hosted by the Parent-Teacher Association, the Bay Academy has various shows throughout the school year. These include an annual Winter Concert, with students singing various Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa songs, a Spring Concert, and a Talent Show. There are also several dance performances, such as the Nutcracker Ballet.In addition to that they have the bay revue which is the showing of the talents to different elementary schools {grade 5} across district 21.
Sports
Bay Academy has a basketball team, soccer team, a flag football team,and a volleyball team And these past years they have added a girls volleyball team and a soccer team.