Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School
100 ESSEX DRIVE, Staten Island, NY 10314
About this school
Public choice option that is not guaranteed by address and generally depends on district choice or broader application rules.
McCown is a college preparatory uniform school partnering with NYC Outward Bound Schools and EL Education to offer challenging student-centered learning focused around case studies and expeditions that incorporate fieldwork and conclude with projects presented to authentic audiences along with service learning opportunities. We offer a small, safe personal environment which allows McCown to highlight each student's unique gifts, talents and creativity in pursuit of mastery of NYS Standards. McCown has dual enrollment partnerships with St. Francis College and CUNY CSI - all students are encouraged to take dually enrolled courses for college credits while attending McCown. We expect students to uphold our character traits of citizenship, integrity, perseverance, respect, and responsibility, wear our uniform, and complete 100 hours of community service by graduation. We offer electives and advanced electives in fine arts, robotics, forensics, and psychology along with week long courses of study called Intensives.
Source-reported description, not a current review or independent assessment. Programs may have changed.
Student demographics
NYC School Quality Snapshot · Reporting period: 2024-10-31 · Source release: 2025 · unknown · Retrieved September 10, 2026 · Source-reported for the stated period; retrieval does not establish present-day accuracy. Only the categories available in this record are shown; totals may be below 100%.
Academic measures
NYC School Quality Snapshot · Source release: 2025 release (measurement periods vary). Proficiency is the share of tested students meeting state standards, not a school rating.
- Student attendance
- 90%September 2024-June 2025
Sources and data dates
- School listing
- NYC School Search · Reporting period not recorded · unknown · Retrieved September 10, 2026 · Measurement period is not established; retrieval date is not the date of the underlying fact.
- Stored rating
- GreatSchools Summary Rating · Reporting period not recorded · unknown · Retrieved September 10, 2026 · GreatSchools-owned stored rating; measurement period undisclosed. Not an independently verified or current-year score.
- Enrollment
- NYC School Quality Snapshot · Reporting period: 2025 release (measurement periods vary) · unknown · Retrieved September 10, 2026 · Measurement period is not established; retrieval date is not the date of the underlying fact.
- School description
- NYC School Quality Snapshot · Reporting period: 2025 release (measurement periods vary) · unknown · Retrieved September 10, 2026 · Measurement period is not established; retrieval date is not the date of the underlying fact.
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