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About IDMS

WELCOME FAMILIES!
Bridgeport Easton Fairfield Milford Monroe Shelton Stratford Trumbull

Our school community provides a unique and diverse learning experience with students from these surrounding Fairfield County towns. Ready to discover the difference? Learn more about the lottery process.

PROUDLY SERVING PRE-K THROUGH 8TH GRADE

  • K-8 Tuition-Free Public Magnet School for families throughout eight towns (Pre-K Program Fees Apply) 
  • STEAM Curriculum focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics
  • Award-Winning Faculty delivering innovative, inquiry- and project-based learning environments 
  • Standard of Excellence in academics and community engagement, both in and beyond the classroom
  • Experience Community and belonging through a diverse multi-cultural student and staff body 
  • Small Class Sizes offering personalized attention and hands-on learning 

WHAT IS STEAM?

STEAM is an educational approach to learning that emphasizes Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Mathematics, encouraging curiosity, intentional guidance of student inquiry, and interest-based motivation in the classroom.

PURPOSE & HISTORY

The Interdistrict Discovery Magnet School provides a safe collaborative envionment that promotes diversity, self-esteem inquiry-based learning, independent thinking and produces students who are "college ready" and prepared to succeed in life.

Discovery Museum staff and trustees worked with representatives of Bridgeport Public Schools, the City of Bridgeport, and Sacred Heart University since 2004 to establish the Discovery Magnet School, a pre-K to 8 interdistrict public magnet school with a science theme located on Discovery Museum grounds. 

This unique school combines the best hands-on “museum” learning techniques with the most effective standards-based educational strategies to create a learning environment that truly educates, excites and engages young people while it prepares them for the challenges of the 21st century.

 

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IDMS Main Page:
Our School: Discovery - Interdistrict Discovery Magnet School

Our Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/DiscoveryMagnet

Uniform:
https://ct02210097.schoolwires.net/domain/872

Supplies List:
https://ct02210097.schoolwires.net/domain/3439

Bus Routes (for Bridgeport students in grades K - 8)
https://ct02210097.schoolwires.net/domain/4068

Pre-School 3 & 4 @Discovery
https://ct02210097.schoolwires.net/domain/857

The Early Childhood Department (Pre-School 3 & 4)
https://ct02210097.schoolwires.net/domain/3028

The Nutrition Center (Breakfast/Lunch Menus)
https://www.bridgeportedu.net/district-offices/nutrition-center/menu

Discovery Staff Directory
https://ct02210097.schoolwires.net/domain/849

The Lighthouse Program (Before & Afterschool Program)
https://www.bridgeportct.gov/government/departments/youth-services/lighthouse-program