Doctor Daniel Hale Williams School for the Arts, M.S. 180, is a public secondary school serving grades 6-8 in the Bronx, New York City. The intermediate school is located in 700 Baychester Avenue in Co-op City. However, it attracts students from throughout the borough and even other parts of the city. Rigorous auditions are held for admission into school, though many get in because of geographic enrollment. The institution focuses on talents such as fine arts, theater arts, instrumental music, video production, vocal music, dance, as well as computer science and more. Under the New York City Department of Education's initiative to form small academies within each school, M. S. 180 is broken up into the Schools of the Moving Image, STAR, International, and Law and Public Service. The Parent Coordinator is Rita Henry. Many of the school's clubs include Step Team, Dream Team (Dance), Flag Football Team, Yearbook Staff, Community Team, Project Boost, Library LEADers and much more. Every summer,they give out papers to 6 graders to prepare for school and each student has to read 3 novels from the list that has been given and there is project choices 1-10 each student can do 1-3 project choices. Until the first day of school, teachers grade the project. The school is known as an exemplary arts school in District 11.