Breakthrough Magnet School South is a PreK - 8 inter-district magnet school located in Hartford, CT. With 355 students boasting heritage from over twenty-five countries, BMS is truly a "global community for students of character."
The Breakthrough Magnet School has a state of the art facility located at 290 Brookfield Street in Hartford, just off of the Flatbush Avenue exit of I-84. The building includes a library/media center with a computer lab and television studio, gymnasium/auditorium, outdoor amphitheater, green roof gardening area, Mindfulness room, and spacious classrooms. Students enjoy seven and a half acres of land with playground areas and fields. Total enrollment for the building is 355 students.
Breakthrough Magnet School (BMS), named the top magnet school in the nation in April 2015 by Magnet Schools of America, is first of only three magnet schools in the nation whose theme is character education, and now, is the first and only school in Connecticut to provide "Mindfulness" training to all students. Located in a state of the art facility that was custom built for its theme, BMS provides a rigorous and authentic learning experience in which students use real purposes and audiences as catalysts for the development of curricular skills. They gain knowledge, utilize higher order thinking, exercise body and mind, and explore the arts, technology and social values in the BMS environment. With 355 students boasting heritage from over twenty-five countries who live in Hartford, and twenty-four surrounding towns, BMS is truly a "global community for students of character."
Steeped in best academic practices, all BMS staff are also well trained in our unique character education curriculum, emphasizing problem solving, personal responsibility, integrity, contribution and knowledge. Students benefit from the consistent and clear delivery of the curriculum on a micro and macro level- from one on one conversations with staff, whole class lessons, and weekly school wide community meetings. In addition middle school students provide daily school-based community service, which allows them to develop and appreciate the importance of their academic and social skills in the here and now. Breakthrough Magnet School develops children of character who are culturally and socially independent and responsible citizens, prepared to lead others by example in Breakthrough Magnet School's specialized skills, values, and ethics to the communities of tomorrow.
The mission of the Breakthrough Magnet School is for staff, families and community members to work in partnership developing students as models of outstanding character. Character development permeates our broad-based instruction, producing students with academic rigor, aesthetic appreciation, and physical expressiveness aimed at contributing to others. Breakthrough has operated variously since September, 1991 as a "school within a school", charter school, and inter- district magnet school.
