MONROE-WOODBURY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

The 'Monroe-Woodbury Central School District' is a school district in Orange County, New York. Most students in the school district live in the towns of Monroe or Woodbury, hence the name. However, there are some students in the district that live in either Chester, Blooming Grove, or Tuxedo.

Contents

Schools

District Governance

Monroe-Woodbury Middle School

Reputation in the Performing Arts

External links

Schools

District Governance

The governing authority of the district is vested in a Board of Education, to whom the Superintendent of Schools and all other District personnel are ultimately accountable. Elections are held concurrently with budget proposal votes.
The district's high school is seen, both physically and academically, as the crown jewel in the region's school system. Built in 1999 but not totally completed until 2002, it divides the student body into four "houses", with an equal distribution of all grades. This, rather than a student's class, is intended to be the main social subunit of the school.
However, not all news about the high school has been positive. In 2004 an end-of-year food fight that required balls several different law enforcement agencies, including state police, to quell when it became a small-scale riot made national and international news.

Monroe-Woodbury Middle School

Monroe-Woodbury Middle School is the public middle school for the Monroe-Woodbury Central School District serving grades 6-8. It is located on Dunderberg Road, on a hillside above Woodbury Common Premium Outlets, next to the Monroe-Woodbury High School. As of 2006, it has a staff of 128 and has 1,746 students. The current principal is Elsie Rodriguez.
Until the construction of the current high school building in 1999, it was the district's high school. Prior to that, the middle school used what is now Central Valley Elementary School, below the school on New York State Route 32 just across from the mall.

Reputation in the Performing Arts

Monroe-Woodbury has garnered national recognition for its outstanding music education program. Currently under the leadership of District Music Coordinator Linda Dziuban, the district's music program thrives, particularly at the High School level, where students have earned top honors in several recent national competitions. The District has been twice recognized as one of "The 100 Best Schools For Music Education" by the American Music Conference.

External links

★ Monroe-Woodbury Middle School