Who we are Academy of the City Charter School (AOC) is a high performing, community-based K-8 public charter school serving a very diverse community of 700 students and families in Queens. We opened our doors in the fall of 2011, as an elementary school located in Woodside, and have expanded over the years to include a middle school, which will graduate its first class of 8th graders in June 2022. The middle school moved to a new building in Astoria in September, 2021. We are firm believers in an integrated educational approach, and have built a distinctive culture of openness, with teachers as the driving force of our curriculum and student learning. Our growth has presented both opportunities and challenges, as we work to balance operating as two schools