Make way for the Class of 2023

Here they are: our incoming eighth graders and the BCHS Class of 2023. We expect great things from this group!

Formal budget discussions begin with State of the Schools, preliminary budget overview

Public budget discussions got underway in Bethlehem at the Feb. 8 Board of Education meeting as Superintendent Jody Monroe presented her 2018 State of the Schools address and Chief Business and Financial Officer Judith Kehoe outlined preliminary figures for the 2018-19 school district budget. The presentations mark the formal beginning of public budget deliberations that …

Highlights of Strategic Plan Survey Results

Between December 6, 2017 and January 5, 2018, more than 2,000 stakeholders in the Bethlehem Central School District completed a survey aimed at guiding the work of the district’s Strategic Planning Committee. Highlights of the responses collected can be found below. 226 BCSD staff members completed the survey. 1,401 students in grades 6-12 completed the …

BCSD enrollment projections on target for current year, downward trend predicted to continue

Student enrollment in the Bethlehem Central School District is expected to continue to decline over the next five years, according to a recent report from the Capital District Regional Planning Commission (CDRPC). The report’s findings will be formally presented to the Board of Education as part of Superintendent Jody Monroe’s State of the Schools address …

Lab School graduates share college experiences at Press Club

They say that families are a lot like branches on a tree: we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. In early January, sixteen graduates from the Lab School Class of 2017 returned to BCHS to spend time with their extended family, exemplifying this idea. The group shared their first-year college experiences …