Chatham Middle School

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...

Students in grades six, seven, and eight learned about the science and warning signs of addiction with Courtney Lovell, an addiction prevention and recovery advocate whose visit...

Congratulations to sixth grader Bryce Schuster, who is Chatham Middle School’s Science & Technology Fair logo contest winner! Bryce’s design becomes the official logo for the 20...

National Art Honor Society (NAHS) students visited the CMS Life Skills class to work on Eric Carle inspired art together. Our middle schoolers listened to a story and worked along...

As part of the 8th grade’s study of the holocaust, students worked on a timeline project in social studies class. Students first became familiar with a real person from history ...

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

8th grade English classes attended a very special presentation about the Holocaust on February 23. Local resident and researcher Linda Ziskind was gracious enough to share her fa...

Grade 6 Honor Roll Theodore Carr, Charlie Delaney, Junxi Jiang, Cory Kratt, Celine Lucas, Haven Plourde, Clara Rossman, Samantha Salvatore, Sharon Schober, Vincent Schweizer, ...

Curriculum Associates has named Chatham Middle School math teacher Tracey Fuller as one of their Extraordinary Educators. Ms. Fuller is one of 29 teachers from 15 states selected...

Seventh graders took a field trip to the NYS Capitol in Albany on February 14. The trip tied in with their social studies curriculum on government.

The CMS Service Club recently spent their time after school at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society cleaning the shelter and then spending some quality time with the animals.

The New York State Education Department has informed us that NYS schools are required to make some changes to the way students use Google services. These changes are being made be...

CMS invited investigator Matt Card from the Columbia County cyber crimes unit and health & safety specialist Eric Barnes from Questar III to talk about internet safety with our s...

Mrs. Velez's 6th-grade Social Studies class celebrated the Lunar New Year on January 28. Students had the opportunity to create dragon puppets and red envelopes and had the chance...