Enroll Today at Williamsburg Charter High School
Williamsburg Charter High School (WCHS)would like to extend a warm welcome to your family. We would be thrilled to have you join us for the 2022-2023 school year.
Robust Course Options
At WCHS, high-quality academic programs await you. We provide options to take your time and figure out where destiny is calling you. Our robust selection of courses lists all of your options for classes, seminars, internships, and independent study opportunities. We offer an exceptional honors program and college credited courses such as Advanced Placement (AP) courses, SUPA (Syracuse University Project Advanced), and more. Our core classes infuse culture, art, and experience with standards-aligned coursework that engage students and get at the heart of a variety of learning styles and intelligences.
Explore your creative side with a trimester of performing arts (dance, theatre, vocal music, or music recording) or visual arts (graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, and ceramics). Create in an inspiring and supportive community!
WCHS also offers a wide variety of services and supports to enable students to reach their full potential and create and achieve their dreams for graduation, college, careers, and beyond! These services include a special education and comprehensive literacy program, resource room, integrated co-teaching, self-contained core classes, speech and language, hearing specialist provided by the DOE, reading specialist, and academic intervention specialists.
Dual Language Program
The dual language program teaches students core subjects in two languages where English and their home language, Spanish, are used equally. The Dual Language program is for incoming ninthgrade students.
English as a New Lannguage (ENL) Program
We offer a mix of integrated co-taught ENL classes in the four major content areas, including English, History, Science, and Math, as well as a specific ENL class for students in the first three ELL performance levels.
Extracurriculars
WCHS also offers a variety of clubs and leadership programs throughout the school year, including cheerleading, choir, dance & step, fitness/workout/martial arts, ceramics open studio, musical theater, anime, cooking, peer tutoring, Model UN, National Honor Society, student ambassadors, student government...and many more!
WCHS offers a variety of sports programs such as baseball, flag football, varsity basketball, junior varsity basketball, soccer, softball, track, and volleyball.
Community
The Williamsburg Charter High School unites youth, families, staff, teachers, and the community in their goals of providing young people with the tools necessary to make sense of the world and preparing them for their journey to become citizens of the local and global community. Young people will accomplish this through participation in a liberal arts education that includes language, literature, writing, science, history, mathematics, the visual and performing arts, technology, and explorations in disciplines designed to teach justice, independent thinking, respect, and compassion for themselves and others as well as the skills of critical thinking, communication and research.
Williamsburg Charter High School received its operating charter in February of 2004. The public, community charter school serves 963 students in grades 9-12 and is located at 198 Varet Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.
To learn more about WCHS, visit www.thewcs.org or call
(718) 782-9830.