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2 Mount Sinai Schools Earn NYS Reward Status

Mount Sinai Middle School and high school have both been identified for high achievement.

Two Mount Sinai schools were named as New York State Reward Schools by  New York State Commissioner John B. King, Jr. for the 2013-14 school year.

Mount Sinai Middle School and high school have received the designation as a Reward School. Mount Sinai Middle School was also named a 2012 National Blue Ribbon School in the performance category of “Exemplary High Performing", last year. 

Reward School status is awarded to schools that are identified “among those schools that have the highest achievement in the state or are making the most progress and do not have significant gaps in student achievement that are not being closed,” according to the state's Department of Education.

Both schools were selected to the select list due to student's high performance. 

The academic criteria these schools met in order to be named a Reward School include: 

  • A four-year graduation rate for the 2007 cohort (students who entered 9th grade in 2007) at 98 percent.
  • An average for Regents Diplomas with Advanced Designation of 60 percent, compared to the state average of 31 percent.
  • A combined unweighted ELA and Math Performance Index within the top 20 percent of all NYS schools.


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