Williamsville Central School District

Williamsville Central School District (commonly abbreviated WCSD) is a public school district in New York that serves the village of Williamsville, as well as the towns of Amherst, Cheektowaga, and Clarence. The district enrollment is approximately 10,600 students throughout 13 schools in the district.[1] The district superintendent is Scott G. Martzloff, Ed.D. It is headquartered near Casey Middle School and North High School at 105 Casey Rd, East Amherst, NY 14051. The district also has an active technology distribution drive which provides all middle schoolers with Chromebooks.

Schools

Elementary school

Elementary schools cover kindergarten to Grade 4.

  • Country Parkway Elementary School (Built in 1964)
  • Dodge Elementary School (Built in 1952)
  • Forest Elementary School (Built in 1956)
  • Heim Elementary School (Built in 1964)
  • Maple East Elementary School (Built in 1958)
  • Maple West Elementary School (Built in 1966)

Middle school

Middle schools cover Grade 5 to grade 8.

  • Casey Middle School
  • Heim Middle School (Built in 1964)
  • Mill Middle School (Built in 1960)
  • Transit Middle School (Built in 1975)

High school

High schools cover grade 9 to grade 12.

Additional Info

The entire district utilizes an online information tracking system called WITS (an abbreviation for Williamsville Information Tracking System) which is used by students, parents, teachers, and other staff to track student grades, clubs, events, class-specific documents and student-teacher/parent-teacher communication. Additionally, students are able to take quizzes and tests on the website, in which they will be automatically graded when they finish taking the quiz/test.

Ranking
  • Top district out of 97 public school districts in western NY, 2012.[2]
  • Williamsville East, South, North High schools awarded gold, silver medals in 2012 U.S. News Best High Schools, ranking 57th, 86th, 88th out of 1165 in the state respectively. These 3 high schools rank among the top 2-3% out of 21,776 public high schools nationally; 2012.[3]

References
  1. , About the District
  2. Thomas, Scott. "2012 School district rankings for western new york". Retrieved 2 January 2013.
  3. "US News Best High Schools, 2012". Retrieved 2 January 2013.
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