Tompkins Square Middle School located in the Lower East Side of NYC. Tompkins Square Middle School TSMS is a learning community with rigorous academic standards that honor individual learning styles and build skills within a meaningful context. TSMS is a safe environment for early adolescents to discover and feel confident about who they are while building nurturing and meaningful relationships with adults and peers. TSMS is dedicated to fostering a community of ethical, caring, self-reflective, and critical thinkers. TSMS celebrates the diversity of all its members and encourages them to express their individuality, pursue their interests, analyze different points of view, and investigate questions about their world.