Chester Academy

Chester Academy is a public secondary school located in Chester, New York, USA. Their mascot is the Hambletonian, after Hambletonian 10, a famed harness racing horse that is an ancestor of nearly every Standardbred horse in the United States. The school's colors are orange and blue and .[1] Chester Academy is a recently built school, with construction starting in 2002. Students moved into the school from Chester Junior/Senior High School, located about 0.741 miles away, in 2004.

Chester Academy
Address
64 Hambletonian Avenue

Chester
,
Orange County
,
New York
10918

United States
Information
School typePublic secondary school, high school
Motto"Excellence in Education"
Established2004
School districtChester Union Free School District
SuperintendentDenis Petrilak
PrincipalJohn Flanagan
Grades6 - 12
Color(s)    Orange and blue
MascotHambletonian
Phone Number845-469-2231
Assistant PrincipalRolando Aguliar
WebsiteChester Academy

There are three floors. The school offers a variety of sports at different levels: football, soccer, baseball, cheerleading, Wrestling and basketball at varsity and junior varsity levels, as well as a varsity track and cross country team. They also have volleyball as of 2015. In 2012, Chester Academy was the first school in the Hudson Valley, NY to send home 1-to-1 Google Chromebooks with its students under a plan from K-12 Director of Instruction & Technology / Data Administrator Edward A. Spence. In 2014, Chester UFSD was awards an "Innovative Schools" annual award from NYSSBA. The district has since had ten different school districts visit Chester Academy to share best practices with Mr. Spence, teachers and students regarding their award-winning 1-to-1 Chromebook Instruction Plan. Take-home 1-to-1 Chromebooks have since become the de facto standard for school districts.

The name of the school changed from Chester Jr/Sr High School to Chester Academy in May 2004 when students and faculty were moved from the original Maple Avenue school building to the new building on Hambletonian Avenue. Chester Jr/Sr High School housed students grades 7-12, and was changed to accommodate students grades 6–12 in the Chester Academy. The school building is separated into a junior high school wing and a high school wing. Chester Academy is also home to an Orange-Ulster BOCES Special Education wing.

References
  1. "Welcome to Chester Academy High School". chesterufsd.org. SchoolWorld. Archived from the original on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2015.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.