Chatham Middle School

CMS Care Day for 6th graders as a culminating event for their character education. The students experienced a series of workshops about adversity, conflict resolution, diversity,...

The Columbia County Youth Bureau honored Chatham Middle School 8th grader Reese Agostinello-Burrows at its 21st Annual Youth Leadership Awards on May 21. She represented Chatham ...

CMS’ character theme for the month of May is 'resilience.' On May 20, the entire 7th-grade class visited MED to lead our 3rd graders through a story walk and read picture books a...

On Saturday, May 17, National Junior Honor Society and CMS key communicators joined forces to serve as "street soldiers." The Street Soldiers organization gathers monthly in Renss...

Our character education program at CMS is hosting some culminating activities this month, the first of which was our annual 7th grade Wellness Day with many interactive activities...

Congratulations to Chatham Middle School's April students of the month! These students have shown outstanding effort, kindness, and leadership in our school community. Chatham, w...

Chatham Middle School's National Junior Honor Society and Peer Buddies Club joined forces on May 1 to help the residents at Camphill Ghent start their gardens and do some spring c...

8th grade students engaged in career presentations and activities with members of the community recently at CMS. Ben Perry, Ghent highway superintendent and CHS grad, discuss...

As part of the CMS career exploration guidance program, 8th graders interested in career and technical education (CTE) visited Questar III's Donald R. Kline Technical School in Hu...

Chatham Middle School's new Fishing Club spent the morning of April 22 helping the Ghent Sportsman's Association stock their pond for their annual free youth fishing derby, happen...

Grade 6 Honor Roll Jaxon Andrews, Jamison Barnes, Theodore Carr, Jaxson Clarke, Ashton Gile, Harper Haley, Jamison Huyck, Junxi Jiang, Robert Kahn, Elisa Reyes Maldonado, Shar...

Congratulations to Chatham Middle School's March students of the month! These students have have shown outstanding effort, kindness, and leadership in our school community. Chatha...

Seventeen CMS Service Club members made an after-school visit to the Payne Home to play Uno, Match Game, cards, and bingo with the residents. They also made crafts together for th...

Mrs. Velez's 6th-grade class wrapped up their Ancient China unit with a review using Breakout Boxes. Students worked in groups to solve the problems and receive the codes to unloc...

CMS wrapped up its healthy choices and decisions theme for March with the annual cooperative games planned by phys. ed. teacher Lynn Fischer. The entire school, from students to s...

Our seventh-and-eighth-grade band, orchestra, and chorus once again had the honor of performing at the Empire State Plaza's South Concourse as part of the New York State School ...

As part of our ongoing character education, 6th graders enjoyed special cooperative challenges at lunch time, such as cup stacking and thread cereal onto a string using only one h...

Congratulations to our 2025 CMS Science & Technology Fair participants! This year, the fair included entries from students in grades five through eight. Students developed a hypo...

CMS congratulates our students of the month for February. These students have impressed our school community in different ways - through academic achievement, hard work, kindness,...

Hello Families of Chatham 8th Graders, The Chatham High School faculty and staff are looking forward to meeting you and working with your students throughout their high school ye...