St. Regis Falls Central School District
92 North Main Street, P. O. Box 309
St. Regis Falls, New York 12980
518-856-9421
Patricia A. Dovi, Superintendent of Schools

THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

The St. Regis Falls Central School provides a public education to approximately 321 students from the towns of Dickinson, Hopkinton, Lawrence, Santa Clara and Waverly which encompass an area of about 239 square miles.

The Board of Education is committed to maintaining a comprehensive educational program for all of its students from the handicapped to the gifted and talented. The School District has a full range of educational, athletic and co-curricular activities which provide ample opportunities for students to express their interests.

Students are housed in a new single facility that provides for an effective educational program. The new facility, opened in July of 2001, has just recently began utilizing the new state-of-the-art Distance Learning Classroom, and also features a 400 seat Auditorium, a Media Center, two Microcomputer Labs and a spacious Gymnasium.

The St. Regis Falls Central School District is a component member of the Franklin-Essex-Hamilton Board of Cooperative Educational Services. The District receives a variety of specialized shared services from the BOCES including occupational education, educational programs for children with handicapping conditions, itinerant services, performing arts, computer applications, and other support and management services.

St. Regis Falls Central School is proud to be a recipient of a Reading First Federal grant for 3 years beginning in the 2006-07 school year.  

Reading First Grants are an offshoot of the No Child Left Behind legislation designed to bring all students up to reading level by the end of 3rd grade. Grant monies are allocated to purchase a reading series, hire new staff to support the program, provide teacher training and student assessments. 

At St. Regis Falls, design team members who wrote the grant selected Houghton Mifflin Reading, 2006 version, for the core series. Three teacher assistants were hired to be shared by the 4 grade levels in 6 different classrooms. A full-time reading coach joined the staff whose job it is to help oversee the program and create teacher training opportunities as needed to ensure the success of the initiative. A half-time coordinator was hired to handle the day to day operations of overseeing the grant. Palm pilots were purchased to facilitate the testing required to drive instruction decisions. All programs, training and schedules must be supported by the most current scientifically based reading research.

We put Reading First in St. Regis Falls!

THE COMMUNITY

The St. Regis Falls Central School District is located in the western part of Franklin County. The School District is situated in a rural setting in the northern foothills of the Adirondack Mountains overlooking the St. Lawrence River Valley within close proximity to Lake Placid.

Public services and shopping centers are located within a reasonable distance in the communities of Malone, Massena and Potsdam. Montreal and the Canadian capital of Ottawa are both within one and one-half hours driving time from the District. Out-of-doors recreation opportunities abound; particularly hunting, fishing, golfing, skiing and all outdoor winter and summer sports.

Various specialized services on a county and regional level are available to residents of the District. Numerous colleges are within easy commuting distance. District residents take great pride in the curricular and co-curricular activities of the school and look upon the school as a community center.

FINANCIAL DATA

The St. Regis Falls Central School District contains taxable real property with a true valuation of $129,014,412. The 2006-2007 tax rate per $1,000 of true value is $16.00.

The 2006-2007 school budget is $6,459,736 with local taxes on real property contributing $2,064,222 of this amount. The state aid is approximately 63.6%.

ENROLLMENT AND STAFF

ENROLLMENT........321
PreK-6........................149
7-12.............................144
BOCES Special Ed......28

STAFF

Teachers......................................32
Administration...............................5
School Business Administrator.....2
Non-Teaching..............................35