Academics

We offer FREE 3-K for All and Pre-K for All through the NYC Department of Education. Learn more here.

Kindergarten is for children who will be 5 by Dec. 31.  Our Kindergarten program follows NYS Next Generation Learning Standards as well as incorporating the best elements of the Pre-K experience (learning by doing, exploring, collaborating in a center-based classroom).

Primary Grades from Kindergarten through 4th Grade are self-contained; that is, the students remain together in their homeroom for all major subjects: Religion, English Language Arts (ELA), Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. The students have these courses four or five times each week.

Middle School consists of 5th Grade through 8th Grade. These classes are departmentalized, meaning that the students meet in their homeroom at the beginning of the day and then travel to their classes: Religion, ELA, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. These classes meet four or five times each week.

Special Subjects: Students have special subjects that meet once each week: Gym (Kindergarten through 8th grade), Music (1st through 8th grade) and Spanish (2nd through 8th grade).

Additional Academic Support: Students who need additional academic support are provided with Title I services in Literacy and Math once or twice each week and with SETSS  (Special Education Teacher Support Services) as recommended by a student’s IEP (Individual Education Plan).

A dynamic STEM lab opened at Immaculate Conception Catholic Academy in Astoria in the Fall of 2018. Students have been thrilled to use cutting-edge equipment including microscopes, anemometers, spectrophotometers, scales, hot plates, scientific models, construction kits, digital multimeters and so much more! 

With our interactive STEM lab, students are actively building, coding, collaborating, and engaging with STEM concepts and work collaboratively to problem solve. This equipment provides students with the opportunity to explore, problem-solve, collaborate, build, create and learn. Interactive, hands-on, and engaging experiments will develop inquisitive minds, logical reasoning and analytical skills. The STEM lab is just one more valuable resource added to our many opportunities for students to excel academically and socially.

“Our STEM Lab provides students with opportunities to be problem solvers, risk takers, critical thinkers and innovators by working collaboratively with their peers to overcome challenges.”
– Ms. Jennifer Michaels, Fifth Grade Science Teacher

“It is a joy to watch students collaborate to describe a problem, brainstorm ideas, design solutions, and evaluate what worked and what they would change using state of the art technology in the STEM Lab.”
– Ms. Mary O’Donoghue, Seventh and Eighth Grade Science Teacher