My Students

Music has never been such an important need at our school. As our budget continues to be cut and teachers are forced to devote more and more time to test preparation, our students are evermore bored and discouraged. Exposure to music is paramount for our students' growth.

Our school is a public elementary school serving students in Pre-Kindergarten - 5th grade in the South Bronx.

Ninety-seven percent of our students qualify for free lunch and breakfast. Almost 25% of our students are students with disabilities, and 13% of our students are English language learners. Despite their families' limited financial resources, our students demonstrate hard work and persistence daily; like wealthier children, they deserve every opportunity to succeed. Our school's staff members are deeply committed to every students' success. They come to school early and stay late, often collaboratively planning next best steps.

My Project

Last year, our school was part of a larger grant with multiple schools and had the opportunity to participate in on-site music classes taught by professional musicians from the Harlem School of the Arts. While the grant continues this year, our school must pay for some of the classes as well as for recorders for our third grade students. We need your help to bring a much needed music program to our second, third, and fourth grade students.

If we are able to continue our partnership with Harlem School of the Arts, each of our 4 second grade classes will enjoy a general music class once a week, all third grade students will participate in a recorder class once a week, and all fourth grade students will take an African drumming class once a week.

Our students love this program and need the enrichment in their school days. Thank you in advance for your support.