The Alternative School for Math and Science opened in January 2004, the result of a vision by a group of concerned citizens, parents and educators to provide a middle-level learning program that was academically excellent, developmentally responsive, and socially equitable.
Corning Incorporated played a key role by availing a former school building on Corning’s Southside the company was leasing. Seven years later, the company purchased the building and, in 2012, fully funded a 35,000 square-foot expansion to accommodate the growing number of students in grades six through eight. The school originally opened with 20 students, and has grown to approximately 130 students annually.