PS 133 located at 610 Baltic Street in Gowanus is a public un-zoned “choice” elementary school that draws 1/3 of its students from District 13 and 2/3 from District 15. The school that moved to a new building in 2013 offers French and Spanish Dual Language Programs where they follow the 50/50 model of instruction, where children receive 50% of instruction in English, and 50% of instruction in either French or Spanish. The objectives of the DLP programs are oral proficiency of two languages, the ability to read and write in two languages and to foster cross-culturural communication and understanding.
For Pre-K and Kindergarten the Department of Education assigns seats via lottery within the online application on their site. For 1st grade and up, new students are only accepted into the Dual Language Programs if they speak the target language fluently. The school has seats available for the following grades this fall:
First Grade:
- General Education
- Spanish DLP- Spanish Native Speakers only
- French DLP-French Native Speakers only
Second Grade:
- General Education
- French DLP-French Native Speakers only
All students not in the Dual Language Programs but in the General Education classes (two classes per grade) learn Spanish starting in Kindergarten. All classes in all grades have weekly cluster classes including science in the science lab, music in the music room, drama & theater, arts, physical education and more. Find out more about their curriculum here.
School hours are 8.20 am to 2.40 pm. School buses are available from various neighborhoods in District 13 and 15. Prospective parents can contact the parent coordinator Mr. Dickerson [email protected] or Literacy Coach/DLP Coordinator Dalila Rabsatt [email protected] for more information and to register their children for 1st and 2nd Grade.
Photo: Principal Foster-Mann on the left and Parent Coordinator Dickerson on the right
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