Hunter College Campus Schools

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEWS

NYSunWorks and HCES Cut the Ribbon on the new HCES HYDROPONICS LAB!
3/23/2025
Congratulations to Jay N. - NYC Spelling Bee Champion
3/17/2025
Congratulations to Jay N (5Kruvi) for placing 1^st in the 2025 New York City Spelling Bee Finals. Jay will be one of two spellers representing New York City at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in May. Here's Jay in the championship round spelling "mediobrome".
HCES joins the NSCF celebration of founder Sunil Weeramantry
3/13/2025
HCCS welcomes Math educator Mr. Eddie Woo
11/20/2024
On Monday, 11/18, HCCS was delighted to welcome Mr. Eddie Woo, the Australian HS Math teacher and author with a world-wide online following for his math videos on Youtube. Thanks to support of the PTA and our ES Math Specialist, Ms. Wolf and our HS Math Dept Chair, Mr. Owens, Mr. Woo presented fun and educational sessions to HCES parents, faculty and students and met with HS students and the HS Math teachers.
Welcome Back to School!
9/4/2024
Hunter College Elementary School
Classes begin Thursday, Sept 5th
See you soon!
(K & 1st grade will have 1/2 days this week (Th, 9/5 and F, 9/6)

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HIGH SCHOOL NEWS

Recognizing some of our HCHS Poets of Note
5/18/2025

Congratulations to some of the extraordinary HCHS poets whose artistry was recognized by 2025 poetry awards.
HCCS at the Chess SuperNationals VIII !
5/13/2025
Every 4 years, Chess SuperNationals is held, which combines the Elementary School, Middle School and High School Championships. This is a fave chess event uniting all of our Hunter schools into a team of 53 players!

This past weekend in Orlando, FL, at the Chess SuperNationals VIII (with over 6,000 players), HCHS won trophies in both middle school and high school, click to read all the successes!
HCHS performs at the Chamber Music Society's Young Muscians Concert
5/13/2025
Bravo to ninth grade students Charlotte Y, and Kevin Z. and junior Danny S. for being selected to perform at Alice Tully Hall on the Lincoln Center campus last week. They performed a trio by D. Milhaud for violins and piano. With gratitude to Mr. Stratechuk for his support.
Congrats to Hunter's Middle School's Division B Science Olympiad Team!
4/30/2025
Congrats to the HCHS Middle School Division B Science Olympiad team! Special thanks to Dr. Perry for advising!

They won 6 medals at States in Syracuse:

1st Place - Entomology (Miles W. and Deven K.)
3rd Place - Reach for the Stars (Jocelyn C. and Aayaan K.)
7th Place - Meteorology (Chengtian C. and Catherine D.)
9th Place - Metric Mastery (Jocelyn C. and Bryan L.)
9th Place - Road Scholar (Thomas H. and Aayaan K.)
10th Place - Anatomy & Physiology (Aria K. and Jocelyn C.)
HCHS Observes Climate Day 2025
4/28/2025
On Friday, April 25, Hunter's Environmental Action Team hosted Climate Day with speakers during 4 periods: Daniel Propp, energy and climate policy expert in the US Department of State's Bureau of Energy Resources; Shiv Soin and our own senior Iz G. from Treeage, a grassroots student-led climate advocacy organization; Larry Bock, who has contributed to Diamond Sustainability Standards and created the Carbon Negative Diamond Company; and Michael Brownstein, CUNY professor of philosophy who studies philosophical and sociological aspects of social change. All the speakers emphasized that students can make change in their own lives that contribute to greater impact by influencing peers and acting in groups to influence policy and societal behavior.

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