It’s easy to forget that the Ramapo Central School District is a big operation. With five elementary schools, a middle and high school, the Hillburn administration building, plus hundreds of RCSD employees, all supported by a budget of more than 100 million dollars. Continue Reading

Friday was Spirit Day at Suffern High School, with many students dressed their spirited best. The Mountie football team didn’t fare well in its Friday night homecoming game under the lights, losing to Marmaroneck, but there’s always the Homecoming Dance Saturday night. Continue Reading

The past several weeks saw outstanding achievement celebrated at Suffern High School. Seniors found out final class rankings and athletics, led by the championship girls track team, were honored at last week’s Ramapo Central Board of Education meeting. Continue Reading

Students got back to school Wednesday morning, a chill in the air and an eye toward the calendar and first official school holiday. It’s back to those A, B, C, D school days again. Continue Reading

With the school season just around the corner, it is notable that four Ramapo Central schools were named High Performing Reward Schools by the New York State Education Department. Continue Reading

The graduation ceremony of Sloatsburg Elementary School’s fifth grade class of 2014 marks another important occasion – the last official graduating class Michele Zeidman has helped shepherd through the halls of the school. Continue Reading

Incoming Sloatsburg Principal Joe Lloyd gave Ryan a hand at a recent SES kindergarten orientation activity.

As the school year winds down for students, there are new faces and old who are being celebrated, along with other changes afoot in the Ramapo Central School District. Sloatsburg Elementary School and Cherry Lane Elementary School each get new principals next year, with SES Principal Eric Baird moving to Cherry Lane and Joseph Lloyd due to become Sloatsburg’s new principal. Continue Reading

Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe, with the Sloatsburg Board of Trustees at his back, addresses a Village Hall audience honoring graduating Sloatsburg high school seniors.

Sloatsburg’s Village Hall was filled with smiles and friendly faces Tuesday evening as the community gathered to celebrate another graduating class of senior students. Continue Reading

This year’s Ramapo Central School Board budget process has ended. The Board of Education voted Thursday, April 24, to adopt the proposed 2014-2015 budget, which totals $130,372,327 and represents a 1.85% budget-to-budget increase from the 2013-14 school year. The tax levy levy increase will tick in at 0.82%.

Sloatsburg Elementary School staff greet the announcement of the school’s new principal, Joseph Lloyd.

Sloatsburg Elementary School was in the spotlight during the most recent Ramapo School Board of Education meeting at Cherry Lane Elementary School. Superintendent Dr. Douglas Adams introduced the district’s candidate to lead Sloatsburg Elementary School, after sorting through some 120 applicants and various interviews. Continue Reading