Lansingburgh High School and Knickerbacker Middle School comprise our secondary education. While there, students continue to develop fundamental skills in core curriculum and augment their essential education courses with electives in such areas as music, art, business, computer science and technology. Our secondary curriculum includes choices for students who are college bound and students who plan to enter the workforce immediately upon graduation.
Knickerbacker students are required to complete a computer literacy course and Lansingburgh High students are offered several courses and sequences in computer programming, technology, design and software management. Each school offers fully equipped computer labs. Also, the library media center maintains more than 40 individual computerized work stations with Internet access. Extensive academic intervention and special education services support the district’s secondary academics.
Middle school students participate in peer mediation and conflict resolution programs. Both middle and high schools have established character education committees.
Lansingburgh middle and high school students participate in numerous academic competitions, including Odyssey of the Mind, Odyssey of the Visual Arts and regional math contest.
Our elementary schools—Rensselaer Park and Turnpike—provide a solid foundation in English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and physical education, as well as a range of academic intervention and special educational services. Each school has a state-of-the-art computer laboratory, plus computers in individual classrooms. Students regularly access the Internet and the World Wide Web as part of their classroom instruction. While at the elementary level, Lansingburgh students are introduced to the fine arts through arts and music programs. At both elementary schools, students may obtain small group instruction and participate in school band and/or choir. Regularly scheduled art and physical education classes are held for all grade levels.
In addition, both elementary schools offer programs in peer mediation,
conflict resolution and character education.