About Us

Discovery’s Vision:

Discovery is an arts-integrated, theme-based, technologically-inclined, and academically-focused Bronx High School. The goal of Discovery is to provide students with an experience of learning that is aesthetic in nature, creative in approach, and inquiry-based in application; in our school, students learn about the arts through both aesthetic and experiential exposure. While it is true that Discovery students don’t have to be artists, dancers, musicians, actors, creative writers, etc., they should appreciate the arts and want to learn about and participate in hands-on, cognitively-focused projects that ask them to be self-reflective on both their own identities and the identities of those around them.

There is a significant paradox at the heart of our educational goal: We do not teach students how to answer the questions that are posed in life; our goal is to teach students how to question the answers that have been established—to teach students that education is, paradoxically, about understanding that we don’t understand the things that we think we understand (about life, those around us, and, especially, ourselves).