Math, engineering, and science academy (mesa) charter high school is a community high school in bushwick, brooklyn. We opened our doors on august 19, 2013, and we now have 465 students in grades 9-12. We graduated our first class of seniors in june 2017 and our graduation rate is 92%. Our students come from more than forty different middle schools, including public, parochial, and charter schools. Some are advanced students coming from magnet schools; others are beginning english language learners. What they all have in common is a desire to succeed. Mesa students come to school every day, ready to work—we have a 95% attendance rate and a 97% punctuality rate, both significantly higher than other high schools in our district! When it comes to regents pass rates, mesa outperforms its peers by a rate of 20-30%!