by coordinating the curriculum and classroom placements. The assistant principal of the Upper School is Elizabeth Breland, and Dennis Moeller has the same position in the Lower School. Long-served Lower School clinic director Sherri Bordoff moved to the Upper School and currently oversees their clinical faculty, with Lacy Ostrander, who was a social worker in the Lower School for a number of years, taking over her prior role as senior social worker. Tara Pino has been the director of the Upper School's work-based learning program since 2019. Enrollment The Summit School has approximately 300 students enrolled annually. Admission process Parents are required to fill out an application form, provide their childs' individualized education plan, neurological and psychological evaluations, social history, current report card, school transcript and prior records, as well as "any other relevant material that will add to [the school's] understanding of the applicant." Appointments are also scheduled to visit the school, which are overseen by the admissions director. If the student is not accepted into the school, the admissions director will refer them to different schools. For the students who are accepted, their parents are obligated to sign a contract for "approval of funding from the New York City Department of Education or [their] local school district." Extra-curricular activities The school features a student government and offers a host of extra-curricular activities, including after school enrichment programs, band, fine art, and a basketball team. Summit also sponsors annual career assemblies, and evening workshops for parents that are conducted by guest lecturers. School newspaper The Summit Sun, currently published every other Friday, is the school's official newspaper. The paper was founded in January 2010, and is primarily student organized, which discusses school activities, sports, current events, and opinion pieces. References 1968 establishments in New York City Educational institutions established in 1968 Private elementary schools in Queens, New York Private high schools in Queens, New York Private middle schools in Queens, New York Special schools in the United States