Yom Kippur and
Indigenous Peoples'/Italian Heritage Day
School will not be in session for students on Thursday, October 2, 2025 in observance of Yom Kippur.
Students will return to school on Friday, October 3, 2025.
School will not be in session for students on Monday, October 13, 2025 in observance of Italian Heritage/Indigenous People's Day.
Students will return to school on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
News from
P.S. 596X
Related
Services
Workshop and
Open House
Friday,
October 10, 2025
10:00am to 11:00am
P.S. 596X @ 178
850 Baychester Ave.
Room 339
Learn how Occupational Therapy (OT), Physical Therapy (PT), and Speech Therapy services are provided at P.S. 596X! This workshop will explain the roles of each therapy, how students receive support, and how families can be involved in the process. Providers from each department will be presenting!
RSVP Here: www.tinyurl.com/OTPTWorkshop
School
Leadership
Team
Meeting
Tuesday,
October 14, 2025
9:30am
P.S. 596X @ 178
850 Baychester Ave.
Bronx, NY 10475
Room 160
The School Leadership Team plays a significant role in creating a structure for school-based decision making and shaping the path to a collaborative school culture. The School Leadership Team functions as the management team of the school, representing the educational community.
Please bring identification to enter the building.
Curriculum
and
Literacy
Night
Monday,
October 7, 2025
5:30pm
P.S. 596X @ 178
850 Baychester Ave.
Bronx, NY 10475
Parents will have the opportunity to learn about the curriculum and literacy programs that we use with our students.
Parents must bring identification to enter the building.
RSVP Here: www.tinyurl.com/P596XLearn
Dinner will be served and childcare will be provided!
October
Saturday
Academy
Saturday,
October 11, 2025
9:30am to 12:00pm
P.S. 596X @ 178
850 Baychester Ave.
Bronx, NY 10475
We are partnering with Maquis studios on a combination of visual arts, dance and music. Drop off at 9:30 am. Parents are invited back at 11:30 am for lunch following the workshop with the students. We are asking parents to commit to ALL Saturday's. Dates are as follows: 10-11-25, 11-8-25, 12-13-25, 1-10-26, 2-7-26, 3-14-26, 4-18-26, 5-9-26. RSVP by 10/3/25.
Sign Up Here: www.tinyurl.com/P596XNew
P596X
Virtual
Read
Aloud
Tuesday,
October 14, 2025
6:00pm to 7:00pm
On Zoom
Join us monthly for a read-aloud of our book of the month!
This month's book will be "I am We" by Susan Verde.
Register Here: www.tinyurl.com/P596XReadAloud
Hispanic
Heritage
Assembly
Wednesday,
October 15, 2025
10:00am
Harry S. Truman
High School
750 Baychester Ave.
1st Floor Auditorium
Join us for a Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration!
Francisco Navarrete Mariachi Band.
Parents, staff and students must bring identification. Parents should leave extra time to go through a security scanning to attend.
Family
Resources
DENTAL RESOURCES
The following is a list of locations/clinics to receive dental services.
Please reach out to our social worker with any questions:
Please e-mail:
Additional Family Resources can be found on our Parent Page.
TAKE A VIDEO TOUR
OF OUR SCHOOL
Take our video tour to learn more about our programs and school community.
photo of
the week
Week of September 22, 2025
This week's photos feature our September Back to School parent engagement event at our 178, 153 and 498 sites.
On Friday, September 19, 2025 parents and guardians were invited into their child's classroom for a parent engagement activity. Parents had an opportunity to meet their child's classroom staff and complete an activity with their child.
The students and parents enjoyed taking part in this interactive activity. Parent engagement activities are held once a month to encourage parents to stay involved with our school community.
Former P596X student Joliah Ceda drew and created our school logo.
WELCOME
Welcome to P.S. 596X! We are a district 75 New York City Public School serving students on the autism spectrum and other special needs from Pre-K through age 11 in three co-located sites: 11X178, 11X153 and 11X498.
Through this website, you will be able to step into our classrooms and hallways to get an idea of the wide variety of creative programs and practices in which students participate on a daily basis.
Our commitment is to provide the highest quality, state of the art instructional programs to our students, and to offer parents workshops and activities to equip themselves with the skills to best help their child. Through hands-on learning and fun-filled opportunities, our students make tremendous gains in social skills, language, and academics.
John Siracuse, Principal