Celebrating Community
Summit Academy Charter School has three graduates from its first high school graduating class in 2016 who are back working and making an impact on Summit scholars. Their names are Manny Cruz, Ibu Smith and Destiny Jennings. Cruz started at Summit in sixth grade when it first opened in 2009 and Smith and Jennings both came as juniors. The […]
Kiana Brereton and Sky Castro, who are both 6’2″, are the second and third female Summit Academy Charter School athletes to receive Division One basketball scholarships. Castro, who started at Summit in the eighth grade, will be attending St. Peter’s College in Jersey City. Brereton, whose first year at Summit was when she was a freshman, will be going to […]
The boys basketball team at Red Hook’s Summit Academy moved to 11-0 with their dominating 102-55 win over Brooklyn Collaborative Studies (BCS) on January 27. BCS, located in Carroll Gardens, dropped to 2-10 in the league. If Summit Academy wins their final three regular season games, they will complete their second consecutive undefeated season in the B division. Summit had […]
Summit Academy founder Natasha Campbell is frustrated by low community turnout at the many local events that are intended to be a service to the neighborhood. She invited Red Hook residents to the school meeting to talk about working together. “When you have a million people working on the same project for different organizations, there is little collaboration and what […]
Red Hook’s Summit Academy is in danger of closing or restructuring at the end of this school year. Every two, three or five years, charter schools have to submit an application to the New York City and State departments of education. [pullquote]Official Notice: There will be a public hearing at Summit Academy Charter School (27 Huntington Street) authorized by the […]
The Summit Academy girls basketball lost 59-40 at Midwood High School on January 18, in a game that was originally scheduled to be played in Red Hook. The 19-point loss ended Summit’s four-game winning streak. They edged Manhattan Center for Science & Math by one at home, beat Francis Lewis by three points, got a forfeit win over Boys and […]
The Summit Academy boys basketball team continued their winning ways as they defeated the Brooklyn Academy of Global Finance (Bedford Stuyvesant) 110-78 on December 17. After the decisive win over the Bulls, who are in the Brooklyn B North division, Summit is now 11-1 overall and 7-0 in the Brooklyn B division. Five of their seven B division wins have […]
The Summit Academy boys basketball team dominated their first home and conference game of their season as they beat the Cobble Hill School of American Studies, 85-45. Coach Phil Grant’s team came into the Monday, November 19 home opener, that had the gym packed with fans, after recording two convincing wins the previous two days to open the season. On […]
Phil Grant, in his third year coaching the Summit Academy boys’ varsity basketball team, believes that they could win it all this season, which begins on November 17 in the X-Men Invitational against Taft, at Our Savior Lutheran in the Bronx. The first home game is the following Monday at 4:30, against conference opponent Cobble Hill School of American Studies. “Every […]
The Summit Academy girls’ basketball team, which advanced all the way to the PSAL city semifinals last season when they lost to perennial power Murray Bergtraum 65-51 at St. Francis College, is back practicing with hopes of an even more successful season. On Saturday September 22, at the Summit Academy Charter School gym, girls’ basketball head coach and athletic director […]