At PS 282 we consider ourselves a family/community with a mission to enable and inspire our diverse student body to achieve academic excellence and make positive contributions to our world.

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By providing all our students with a high quality education we can enable each of them to be contributing members of a multiethnic, multicultural, pluralistic society. We seek to create an environment that achieves equity for all students and ensures that each student is a successful learner, is fully respected and learns to respect others.

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