About SVA
Soundview Academy for Culture & Scholarship (08X448) was founded in 2009 with the mission to turn the conventions of community-based South Bronx middle schools on their head. One year later we became the first Bronx middle school to join the ambitious iZone360 cohort of schools. By our fourth year, we became the only “A” zoned middle school in District 8 and one of only 8 such schools in the entire borough of the Bronx.
In 2014, we joined the Bronx Middle School Consortium, a group of ground-breaking district public middle schools in the Chancellor’s PROSE district, representing the next generation of NYC public schooling. In 2015, we became one of President Obama’s celebrated Apple ConnectEd grantees, offering an unparalleled level of technology and support to the middle school students of our community.
In 2020, we joined the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools where all students received iPad 7’s with 10GB data. In 2021, we received the VILS grant to create an innovative learning lab. The Verizon Innovative Learning Lab program creates custom-designed, experiential learning spaces within Verizon Innovative Learning schools. Powered by a NextGen, emerging technology-infused curriculum and Verizon 5G, the Verizon Innovative Learning Lab program provides educators with professional learning and students with the technology and skills to build the future—to leverage technology, social innovation and design thinking to impact their communities.
Instructional Focus
To design and execute rigorous, differentiated, and culturally-relevant performance-based tasks in all content areas.
