The Board of Education consists of 7 members who serve rotating 3-year terms. Elections for board members are held each year in May, along with a vote on the budget. The current board members are:
Debbie Palumbo-Sanders, President
Tim DeLucia, Vice President
Karen Ballard
Kristin Elliott
Christopher Parks
Mike Vistocco
Mike Young
Schools
All of the District's schools are located on a campus, which consists of four buildings surrounded by various athletic fields and playgrounds. Although the Junior and Senior High Schools are physically the same building, they are considered separate in most other aspects.
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The District's 86% graduation rate exceeds the State Standard of 55%. For the past12 years, the New York State Education Department has named the Junior High School a New York State high performing school in addition to a "School to Watch". In 2013, the NYSED named the Junior and Senior High Schools "Reward Schools" in the "High Performance" category. 98% of students from the class of 2018 graduated with a Regents Diploma, while 63% earned the higher Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation. In addition, a total of 99 students were inducted into the National Honor Society that same year.
The Director of Transportation is Darren Everhart. He has the responsibilities of maintaining bus routing, as well as the hiring and training of current and new drivers alike. Darren also has the responsibility of taking care of misbehavior on buses.
The District is in need of drivers, as there are more runs than drivers and this often causes tight scheduling, although the mechanics can fill in as needed, as they are required by their contract to have a bus driving endorsement.
Mechanics and buses
The District employs a fleet of 77 passenger Blue Bird Puller style buses, as well as ten "short" buses and five, eight-passenger vans. The District runs on a 100,000-mile or 10-year rotation of buses, and will generally buy five new buses per year, in accordance with the budget.
The District employs four highly capable and educated bus mechanics, one of which serves as the head mechanic. Each mechanic will service and performs inspections on the buses. The largest job so far that has been done in house has been a complete rebuild of five international 3800's diesel engines.
The Transportation Building houses five bays, two of which are equipped with 77 passenger bus lifts, and another has a small car lift for small buses and vans. Two mechanics work mostly on the 77 passenger buses, while one will work on the smaller vehicles. The fourth is responsible for hiring, book keeping, parts inventory and daily driver report filling.
