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Marsh Avenue Expeditionary Learning School is a unique New York City Department of Education public middle school. MAELS is part of a network of 14 EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning) and NYC Outward Bound schools in New York City. EL is a proven educational model being implemented in over 150 schools across the country.
As an EL school, we believe that when a student leaves us and enters the world, they will be judged for the rest of their life not by their performance on tests of basic skills, but by the quality of their work and the depth of their character. Our vision of student achievement therefore has three dimensions: Mastery of Academic Skills and Content, High-Quality Work, and Character.