The Bronx High School for Medical Science was established on September 2002 to fill the need for a school featuring a medical science program in our area. The HSMS serves students from more than ten countries; our school follows an extended day program in a multi-session structure with nine periods a day. We followed a uniform policy for students; the uniform is provided for free at the beginning of the school year to all entering freshman classes. The hunter green scrub is unique of high school students; the hunter green is exhibited at all doors across the floor. A mint green scrub is unique of all middle school students; the mint green is exhibited at all walls across the floor. We are the only school in the building following a school-wide “self-contained’ model; this model fosters the rotation of teachers from classroom to classroom. Students take ownership of their classrooms and develop strong bonds among themselves. Cutting classes is eliminated and attendance improves. The HSMS is the only school in the city with a school-wide program that graduates one third of the entering cohort in three years. This “in-house educational opportunity” affords students the possibility to start college a year earlier than their peers. Consequently, early college starters have the possibility to graduate a year ahead from their peers; which may place them in an employment status before their classmates. By the time these early high school graduates reach a retirement age, they may have accumulated an extra year into their pension funds. Our school has been recognized as one of America’s Best High Schools (as featured in U.S. News and World reports) and one of the top High Schools in the United States (as seen on Top schools in the USA .com).
