Admissions & Tours (2023-2024)

PSMS278 is a NYC zoned school that services children grades K-8. Please ensure that you are zoned for our school. You may visit this NYC Department of Education(‘DOE”) website to see if you are zoned for PSMS278 at http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolsearch

If your child was born in 2019, you may submit a Kindergarten Admission application. Applications are made one of three ways:

  • Online with MySchools(Open external link) in English, Spanish, Chinese, Bengali, Russian, Arabic, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Korean, or French. We’ll let you know when the application opens and you can apply online!
  • By phone at 718-935-2009.
  • By contacting a Family Welcome Center
  • All families, including those of students with disabilities and current pre-K students should submit an application.  For more information, visit www.nyc/gov/schools/kindergarten or call 718-935-2009.

278 School Tours IN-PERSON ALL START AT 9:00 AM

Please use the link below to register for our tours:
https://tinyurl.com/5b9ajd44

November 9, 2023

November 16, 2023

January 18, 2024

*If you are interested in a virtual tour, please contact Ms. Angelin Gonzalez at agonzalez32@schools.nyc.gov or call (917) 521-2060 (ext 1061). 

Admission/Application Deadlines

Kindergarten offers will be made in June. Your offer letter will tell you where your child will go to kindergarten in the fall. It will also tell you where your child is waitlisted.

For more information on the Middle School Admissions process, visit http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/Middle. If your child will be in Middle School in 2023, you should meet your elementary school representatives and find out about your middle school options. 

If you are interested in applying for student that will be in Elementary Grades 1 to 5 – please see the fillable 278 transfer student application (in English and Spanish) attached below and please contact Ms. Angelin Gonzalez at agonzalez32@schools.nyc.gov for more information.

If you have any questions regarding 278 school admissions or tours, please contact Ms. Angelin Gonzalez at agonzalez32@schools.nyc.gov or call (917) 521-2060 (ext 1061). 

Admission Priorities
Zoned schools will give priority to students who live in that zone, as they have in the past. Schools will make assignments according to the following priorities, listed from highest to lowest:

  • Zoned students with a sibling who will be in grades 1-5 at the school;
  • All other zoned students;
  • Students residing in the school’s district but outside the school’s zone, with a sibling who will be in grades 1-5 at the school;
  • Student residing outside of the school’s district with a sibling who will be in grades 1-5 at the school;
  • All other students residing in the school’s district but outside the school’s zone,
  • All other students.

Registration
Once you receive a letter that you child has been accepted to PSMS278, you must bring your child to the school along with the documents required for registration. Please call Ms Gonzalez, Parent Coordinator to make a registration appointment at (917) 521-2060, ext. 1061 or email her at agonzalez32@schools.nyc.gov.

If You Are Changing Schools
The Office of Student Enrollment implements three transfer programs, available to eligible parents who wish to transfer their child through the Public School Choice program. The No Child Left Behind Public School Choice program gives parents of eligible students enrolled at Title I Schools In Need of Improvement (SINI) and Schools Under Register Review (SURR) the option to request a transfer.

The Progress Report Transfer program gives parents of eligible students enrolled at non-SINI/SURR schools that received an “F” grade on their most recent Progress Report the option to request a transfer. Parents of students enrolled at newly identified phase-out schools will also have the option to request a transfer through the Progress Report Transfer program.

The Persistently Dangerous Schools program gives parents of eligible students enrolled at schools that the State Education Department identifies as “persistently dangerous” the option to request transfer.