About Bridge Gate Community School

We Offer:

• A safe and secure learning environment

• Rigorous, comprehensive, and differentiated curriculum

• Small class sizes

• Student centered instruction with free tutoring

• Student achievement (see our Results page)

• Highly Qualified Teachers

• Technology focused classrooms

• Teachers who speak Somalian

• Transportation provided for eligible students

• Family programs and festivals

• Free breakfast and lunch

• Community partners and programs

• Quarterly Achievement Celebrations

• Physical education

Mission Statement

Bridge Gate Community School will promote knowledge, wisdom and understanding to all stakeholders that empowers success in our global society. The mission of Bridge Gate Community School has four components.

1. Prepare students with 21st Century skills including using informative and communications technology (ICT) to gather and assess information, collaborate, be innovative, think critically, and solve problems, promote knowledge, wisdom and understanding to all stakeholders that em-powers success in our global society.

2. To achieve this goal, the teaching and learning culture must build positive relationships with all students and their families in order to gain trust and respect while providing an opportunity for active engagement and adapting programs and practices to achieve full student potential.

3. Create a productive learning environment featuring nontraditional methods of instructional delivery and high expectations that involve parents and families.

4. Ensuring students reach their full potential, are prepared to be successful in life after graduation and enter a global society that requires being trained in the utilization of various technological tools.

Vision Statement

Each year, the numbers of students who enter school with circumstances in their lives that inhibit their educational success are increasing. Bridge Gate Community School believes that we need to Be THE School that each individual student requires. Each student needs something different out of school and it is our belief that each student is a unique person with individual needs. These individual needs must be met prior to becoming a successful student.

Ohio Community Statement

Bessie Sherrod Price Preparatory Academy is a community school established under Chapter 3314 of the Revised Code.  Bessie Sherrod Price Preparatory Academy is a public school and students enrolled in and attending the school are required to take proficiency tests and other examinations prescribed by law. In addition, there may be other requirements for students at the school that are prescribed by law. Students who have been excused from the compulsory attendance law for the purpose of home education as defined by the Administrative Code shall no longer be excused for that purpose upon their enrollment in a community school. For more information about this matter contact the school administration or the Ohio Department of Education.