Founding Year: 2004 Grades: 6-12  |  Grades Active: 6-8 1180 Tinton Avenue Fourth Floor Bronx, New York 10456 | | | The UA Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists at Casita Maria (BSSWA) is a thoughtful, self-critical, and highly dedicated community of teachers, artists, and committed to cultivating a generation of scholar-activists – globally-minded, readers and writers committed to lifelong learning, personal wellness, the protection of human rights, the empowerment of local communities, and the preservation of the Earth. Students at BSSWA are deeply immersed in a highly personalized, literacy-rich, project-based learning environment that prepares every student to write persuasively, read and think critically, and speak clearly and informatively on a broad range of subjects. We regard Art as a fundamental literacy each student should refine and develop so that she or he may better decipher, negotiate, and enrich our complex world. | | | | Members of our first two graduating eighth grade classes were accepted to specialized and highly competitive examination and audition schools including Brooklyn Latin, Bard Early College High School, Professional Performing Arts High School, and Art & Design HS. Sixteen BSSWA student ambassadors participated in a week-long international immersion program in Spain in the summers of 2007 and 2008. Our school community will relocate to a new state-of-the-art $55 million educational facility on Simpson Street (Bronx, NY) in September 2009. Our attendance daily attendance rate has met or exceeded 90% each year since our founding in September 2004. Address: 1180 Tinton Avenue, Fourth Floor, Bronx, NY 10456 Principal: David J. Vàzquez  |  (718) 861 8704  |  fax (718) 861 8703 Parent Coordinator: Mildred Nuñez  |  (718) 861 8704 Casita Maria, Inc. Christodora ASPIRA of New York City Lights Youth Theater