4 Caroline D. Bradley Scholars (and counting)
As of 2022, four Speyer students have received four-year full tuition scholarships to the high schools of their choice through the Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship. This is the only merit-based, need-blind scholarship for highly gifted students—and is awarded to only roughly 30 students from around the country each year.
27 National Championship Chess Titles (and counting)
There are two sets of national tournaments for K-8 students sponsored by the US Chess Federation each year. Elementary Nationals have four sections: K-1, K-3, K-5, and K6.
Grade Nationals have one section for each grade. Students compete as a team for their schools, adding up the top 4 scores for Elementary Nationals and the top 3 scores for Grade Nationals. Since 2013, Speyer has won: 14 Grade National Championships and 13 Elementary and Middle School National Championships!
In the 2023-2024 school year alone, Speyer won 8 National titles!
Odyssey of the Mind Team at World Championship
Since beginning competition in 2018, our Odyssey of the Mind Teams have won every year at the regional and/or state levels – and two of our 2022 Speyer OOTM Teams competed at the World Championship, with one placing seventh in the world and receiving a coveted Ranatra Fusca Award, given to a team or individual for demonstrating outstanding creativity.
Speyer Receives Gold Certificate from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
Every year, Speyer Middle School students win regional, state, and national Scholastic Art and Writing Awards — so many that Speyer was recognized with "Gold Certificate" in 2022 as a school that consistently submits "student work selected for national honors”. In the past three years alone, our Middle Schoolers have won more than 60 Silver and Gold Keys!
Speyer Debate wins First Place School (over and over again)
Every year, including the 2022-2023 school year, Speyer's Debate Team wins the First Place School Award and multiple individual speaker awards (bringing home that coveted gavel) at various tournaments! We compete in the New York Debate League, often going against teams from much larger schools.
Speyer Math Team is the Perfect Equation for Winning State Competitions
Our Mathletes consistently win first place in their division for both the MATHCOUNTS and Purple Comet state math competitions and earn multiple top individual rankings. In 2023, Speyer teams placed first, third, fifth, and seventh in the Purple Comet Math Meet and won first and fourth place at MATHCOUNTS — with one of our Mathletes posting the only perfect score in the state!
Speyer Represents NY State at National History Day
In 2023, Speyer Middle School students competed at the National History Day National competition in Washington, D.C., representing New York State in both the Group Performance category and the Papers category!
