{"history":[],"article":{"id":"3f0ed5dd-a4a6-4cb3-b703-6448670cdf96","title":"Fairport Central School District","slug":"fairport-central-school-district","content":":::summary\n**Name:** Fairport Central School District \n**Image 2:** FairportNewYorkCentralSchoolDistrictOffice.jpg \n**Caption 2:** Main office in the Streppa building in the village of Fairport. The Streppa building was built on the site of the former Fairport Classical and Union Free School in 1971. \n**Location:** 38 West Church Street
[Fairport, New York](https://bliptext.com/articles/fairport-new-york) 14450-2130 \n**Region:** [Monroe County](https://bliptext.com/articles/monroe-county-new-york) \n**Coordinates:** 43.0991°N, -77.4448°W \n**Type:** [Public](https://bliptext.com/articles/state-school) \n**Motto:** A great place to teach and learn \n**Grades:** [Pre-K](https://bliptext.com/articles/universal-preschool)–12 \n**Established:** September 1951 \n**President:** Vacant \n**Vice -president:** Erica Belois-Pacer \n**Superintendent:** Brett C. Provenzano \n**Asst Superintendents:** Douglass Lauf- Human Resources and Labor Relations · Matthew Stevens- Business \n**School Board:** Peter Forsgren · Joyce Kostyk · Erica Belois-Pacer · Margaret Cardona · Janice Fortuna · Dr. Brian Moritz · Dr. Mary Caitlin Wight \n**Governing Agency:** [New York State Education Department](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state-education-department) \n**Accreditations:** New York State Education Department \n**Schools:** Four elementary schools (K–5, K–2, 3–5)
Two middle schools (6–8)
One junior high school (9)
One senior high school (10–12) \n**Budget:** US$127.0 million (2017-2018) \n**Students:** 5802 (2017–2018) \n**Faculty:** 615 (2017–2018) \n**Staff:** 568 (2017–2018) \n**Ratio:** K–2: 18:1, 3–5: 22:1, 6–8: 24:1, 9–12: 24:1 (2017–2018) \n**Conference:** [NYSPHSAA](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state-public-high-school-athletic-association) Section V
Monroe County Public School Athletic Conference \n**Mascot:** Red Raiders \n**Colors:** [Red](https://bliptext.com/articles/red), [white](https://bliptext.com/articles/white) and [blue](https://bliptext.com/articles/blue)
\n**Schedule:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WPldgP6MmIpcxW_zY9LPnB3ybiJrAbLM/view \n**Website:** http://www.fairport.org/ \n**Free Label:** Unions \n**Free Text:** [NYSUT](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state-united-teachers)
Fairport Educators' Association \n**Free Label 2:** [PTSA](https://bliptext.com/articles/parent-teacher-association) \n**Free Text 2:** [Fairport Parent Teacher Student Associations](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) \n**Free Label 3:** State ranking \n**Free Text 3:** 78 of 675 (2019) \n:::\n\n# \nThe **[Fairport](https://bliptext.com/articles/fairport-new-york) Central School District** is a [public](https://bliptext.com/articles/public-school-government-funded) [school district](https://bliptext.com/articles/school-district) in [New York State](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state) that serves approximately 5,800 students in most of the town of [Perinton](https://bliptext.com/articles/perinton-new-york) and the village of [Fairport](https://bliptext.com/articles/fairport-new-york) in [Monroe County](https://bliptext.com/articles/monroe-county-new-york), with about 1,200 employees and an operating budget of $127.0 million ($21,895 per student).\nThe [student-teacher ratios](https://bliptext.com/articles/student-teacher-ratio) are 18:1 for grades K–2, 22:1 for grades 3–5, 24:1 for grades 6–8, and 24:1 for grades 9–12.\nThe median teacher experience is 14 years and the median teacher salary is $63,339.\nAs of 2016, Brett Provenzano is the superintendent.\n\n# History\nThe predecessor for the district was a series of eleven district schools opened in the Town of Perinton in the 1810s through the 1830s.\nFrom 1826 until 1872, the village was served by the district 9 school which was situated in two different buildings on East Church Street.\nIn 1872, the Fairport Classical and Union School opened on West Church Street.\nAlong with the Northside School (1886) on East Avenue and Fairport High School (1924) on West Avenue, it became part of system of schools that served the town population increasingly concentrated in the village.\nIn 1920, the board of education for the village schools hired its first superintendent.\nVoters approved centralization of Perinton school districts 2 through 9 on April 30, 1951 and the centralized district began operating the following September.\nAt that point most of the district schools had closed and students attended one of the village schools (the Northside School on East Avenue, the Southside School on West Church Street, or Fairport High School on West Avenue).\nThe district opened the Johanna Perrin School on Potter Place in the Village in 1954, razing the Southside School (the former Fairport Classical and Union Free School) the following year.\nIn 1957, the district renamed the high school on West Avenue in honor of Martha A. Brown, and constructed a new high school, Minerva DeLand, in 1959.\nThe Brooks Hill Primary School followed in 1962 and the Jefferson Avenue Elementary School in 1966.\nIn 1965, the Martha Brown School moved to a new building on Ayrault Road.\nIn 1970, the district opened Dudley and Northside elementary schools as well as the current high school on Ayrault Road.\nIn the early 2000s the district briefly considered opening an additional elementary school in the hamlet of Egypt (to be named \"White Brook\" after the former district school 12), but could not secure enough funding from the state.\nIn 1999 the village of Fairport, the FCSD and Monroe #1 BOCES announced a collaboration to have public ch 12 used for more than government meetings and programs.\nA full-time staff was put together to accomplish this goal.\nAs of 2013, this channel is no longer in use.\nBoard of Education meetings may be viewed online at fairport.org\n\n# General information\nThe Fairport Central School District consists mostly of students from the Perinton/Fairport region, and is an avid participant in the Urban-Suburban program.\n# [The Northside School as it appeared in the early 20th century | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/NorthSideSchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n\n## Central administration\nSuperintendent of Schools: Brett Provenzano\nAssistant Superintendent of Human Resources & Labor Relations: Douglass Lauf\nAssistant Superintendent of Business: Matthew Stevens\nDirector of Facilities: Aaron Smith\nDirector of Technology: Tom Devitt\nDirector of Humanities: Ellen Reed\nCommunications & Public Relations Specialist: Christina Lewis Gursslin\nDirector of Food Service: Michelle Resavage\nDirector of Math, Science, Technology: Kristen Larsen\nDirector of Transportation: Peter Lawrence\nDirector of Special Education: Dennis DesRosiers\nDirector of Student Services: Deborah Miles\nDirector of Staff Development: Kevin Henchen\nDirector of Special Areas: Pamula Ciranni\nDirector of Health, Physical Education & Athletics: Fritz Kilian\n\n# Student statistics\n\n# Board of education\nThe Board of Education (BOE) consists of seven members who serve rotating three-year terms.\nElections, when necessary, are held each May to fill the seats of members whose terms have expired.\nThese elections occur alongside voting on the School District's annual budget.\nArielle LaBarbera is currently the District Clerk.\n\n# Schools\n\n## Elementary schools\nPrincipal: Meredith A. Klus\nAsst. Principal: Stacie Miller\nLead Teacher: Jean Waldmiller
\nBrooks Hill School opened in 1962 as a primary school and is named after Lewis Brooks who once farmed the land on which it stands.\nPrincipal: Sarah Welsh (2023-)\nAsst. Principal: Caitlin Law (2022-)\nDudley Elementary School opened in 1970 alongside Northside Elementary School.\nIt is named after longtime schoolboard member Robert A. Dudley.\nPrincipal: Ryan Charno\nAsst. Principal: Amy Busby\nLead Teacher: Jeannette Maloy\n
\nJefferson Avenue Elementary School opened in 1966.\nPrincipal: Erin Moretter\nAsst. Principal: Jeremy Slack\n
\nNorthside Elementary School opened in 1970 alongside Dudley Elementary School.\nIt is named after the original Northside School which was located on East Avenue in the village of Fairport.\n# [Brooks Hill Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/BrooksHillElementarySchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n# [Dudley Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/DudleyElementarySchoolPerintonNewYork.jpg]\n# [Jefferson Avenue Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/JeffersonAvenueElementarySchoolPerintonNewYork.jpg]\n# [Northside Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/NorthsideElementarySchoolPerintonNewYork.jpg]\n\n## Middle school\nPrincipal: Patrick Grow\nAsst. Principal: Rebecca Short
\nPerrin Middle School opened in 1954 as an elementary school and is named after the first white woman to settle in Perinton.\nPrincipal: Rebecca Short(2022-)\nAsst. Principal: George Barberi(2022-)
\nThe Ayrault Road Martha Brown School opened in 1965 as a junior high school and is named after longtime Fairport teacher Martha A. Brown.\nThe original Martha Brown School was located in the former West Avenue School, which was renamed in her honor in 1959.\n# [Johanna Perrin Middle School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/JohannaPerrinMiddleSchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n# [The parking lot of Martha Brown with the overblowing Canadian Wildfire smog. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Martha///Brown///Middle///School///on///a///smoky///day.jpg]\n\n## High schools\nPrincipal: Dominic Monacelli\nAssistant Principal: Madison Shepard\nDeLand High School opened in 1959 as the district's high school and is named after the longtime principal of the former Fairport High School on West Avenue.\nPrincipal: Robert Clark\nAssistant Principals:\nAssistant Principal: Madison Shepard\nRed House: Ryan Kuhn\nWhite House: Lyndsey Keil\nBlue House: Ashley Edwards\n
\nFairport High School opened in 1970, partially replacing Minerva DeLand, which educates the district's ninth grade students.\n# [Minerva DeLand High School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/MinervaDelandHighSchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n# [Fairport High School looking east | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/FairportHighSchoolPerintonNewYorkWestView.jpg]\n\n## School photographs","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T09:45:58.432Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T09:45:58.432Z","search_vector":"'central':2 'district':4 'fairport':1 'school':3","search_content":" \n**Name:** Fairport Central School District \n**Image 2:** FairportNewYorkCentralSchoolDistrictOffice.jpg \n**Caption 2:** Main office in the Streppa building in the village of Fairport. The Streppa building was built on the site of the former Fairport Classical and Union Free School in 1971. \n**Location:** 38 West Church Street [Fairport, New York](https://bliptext.com/articles/fairport-new-york) 14450-2130 \n**Region:** [Monroe County](https://bliptext.com/articles/monroe-county-new-york) \n**Coordinates:** 43.0991°N, -77.4448°W \n**Type:** [Public](https://bliptext.com/articles/state-school) \n**Motto:** A great place to teach and learn \n**Grades:** [Pre-K](https://bliptext.com/articles/universal-preschool)–12 \n**Established:** September 1951 \n**President:** Vacant \n**Vice -president:** Erica Belois-Pacer \n**Superintendent:** Brett C. Provenzano \n**Asst Superintendents:** Douglass Lauf- Human Resources and Labor Relations · Matthew Stevens- Business \n**School Board:** Peter Forsgren · Joyce Kostyk · Erica Belois-Pacer · Margaret Cardona · Janice Fortuna · Dr. Brian Moritz · Dr. Mary Caitlin Wight \n**Governing Agency:** [New York State Education Department](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state-education-department) \n**Accreditations:** New York State Education Department \n**Schools:** Four elementary schools (K–5, K–2, 3–5) Two middle schools (6–8) One junior high school (9) One senior high school (10–12) \n**Budget:** US$127.0 million (2017-2018) \n**Students:** 5802 (2017–2018) \n**Faculty:** 615 (2017–2018) \n**Staff:** 568 (2017–2018) \n**Ratio:** K–2: 18:1, 3–5: 22:1, 6–8: 24:1, 9–12: 24:1 (2017–2018) \n**Conference:** [NYSPHSAA](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state-public-high-school-athletic-association) Section V Monroe County Public School Athletic Conference \n**Mascot:** Red Raiders \n**Colors:** [Red](https://bliptext.com/articles/red), [white](https://bliptext.com/articles/white) and [blue](https://bliptext.com/articles/blue) \n**Schedule:** https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WPldgP6MmIpcxW_zY9LPnB3ybiJrAbLM/view \n**Website:** http://www.fairport.org/ \n**Free Label:** Unions \n**Free Text:** [NYSUT](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state-united-teachers) Fairport Educators' Association \n**Free Label 2:** [PTSA](https://bliptext.com/articles/parent-teacher-association) \n**Free Text 2:** [Fairport Parent Teacher Student Associations](https://bliptext.com/articles/undefined) \n**Free Label 3:** State ranking \n**Free Text 3:** 78 of 675 (2019) \n \n\n# \nThe **[Fairport](https://bliptext.com/articles/fairport-new-york) Central School District** is a [public](https://bliptext.com/articles/public-school-government-funded) [school district](https://bliptext.com/articles/school-district) in [New York State](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-york-state) that serves approximately 5,800 students in most of the town of [Perinton](https://bliptext.com/articles/perinton-new-york) and the village of [Fairport](https://bliptext.com/articles/fairport-new-york) in [Monroe County](https://bliptext.com/articles/monroe-county-new-york), with about 1,200 employees and an operating budget of $127.0 million ($21,895 per student).\nThe [student-teacher ratios](https://bliptext.com/articles/student-teacher-ratio) are 18:1 for grades K–2, 22:1 for grades 3–5, 24:1 for grades 6–8, and 24:1 for grades 9–12.\nThe median teacher experience is 14 years and the median teacher salary is $63,339.\nAs of 2016, Brett Provenzano is the superintendent.\n\n# History\nThe predecessor for the district was a series of eleven district schools opened in the Town of Perinton in the 1810s through the 1830s.\nFrom 1826 until 1872, the village was served by the district 9 school which was situated in two different buildings on East Church Street.\nIn 1872, the Fairport Classical and Union School opened on West Church Street.\nAlong with the Northside School (1886) on East Avenue and Fairport High School (1924) on West Avenue, it became part of system of schools that served the town population increasingly concentrated in the village.\nIn 1920, the board of education for the village schools hired its first superintendent.\nVoters approved centralization of Perinton school districts 2 through 9 on April 30, 1951 and the centralized district began operating the following September.\nAt that point most of the district schools had closed and students attended one of the village schools (the Northside School on East Avenue, the Southside School on West Church Street, or Fairport High School on West Avenue).\nThe district opened the Johanna Perrin School on Potter Place in the Village in 1954, razing the Southside School (the former Fairport Classical and Union Free School) the following year.\nIn 1957, the district renamed the high school on West Avenue in honor of Martha A. Brown, and constructed a new high school, Minerva DeLand, in 1959.\nThe Brooks Hill Primary School followed in 1962 and the Jefferson Avenue Elementary School in 1966.\nIn 1965, the Martha Brown School moved to a new building on Ayrault Road.\nIn 1970, the district opened Dudley and Northside elementary schools as well as the current high school on Ayrault Road.\nIn the early 2000s the district briefly considered opening an additional elementary school in the hamlet of Egypt (to be named \"White Brook\" after the former district school 12), but could not secure enough funding from the state.\nIn 1999 the village of Fairport, the FCSD and Monroe #1 BOCES announced a collaboration to have public ch 12 used for more than government meetings and programs.\nA full-time staff was put together to accomplish this goal.\nAs of 2013, this channel is no longer in use.\nBoard of Education meetings may be viewed online at fairport.org\n\n# General information\nThe Fairport Central School District consists mostly of students from the Perinton/Fairport region, and is an avid participant in the Urban-Suburban program.\n# [The Northside School as it appeared in the early 20th century | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/NorthSideSchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n\n## Central administration\nSuperintendent of Schools: Brett Provenzano\nAssistant Superintendent of Human Resources & Labor Relations: Douglass Lauf\nAssistant Superintendent of Business: Matthew Stevens\nDirector of Facilities: Aaron Smith\nDirector of Technology: Tom Devitt\nDirector of Humanities: Ellen Reed\nCommunications & Public Relations Specialist: Christina Lewis Gursslin\nDirector of Food Service: Michelle Resavage\nDirector of Math, Science, Technology: Kristen Larsen\nDirector of Transportation: Peter Lawrence\nDirector of Special Education: Dennis DesRosiers\nDirector of Student Services: Deborah Miles\nDirector of Staff Development: Kevin Henchen\nDirector of Special Areas: Pamula Ciranni\nDirector of Health, Physical Education & Athletics: Fritz Kilian\n\n# Student statistics\n\n# Board of education\nThe Board of Education (BOE) consists of seven members who serve rotating three-year terms.\nElections, when necessary, are held each May to fill the seats of members whose terms have expired.\nThese elections occur alongside voting on the School District's annual budget.\nArielle LaBarbera is currently the District Clerk.\n\n# Schools\n\n## Elementary schools\nPrincipal: Meredith A. Klus\nAsst. Principal: Stacie Miller\nLead Teacher: Jean Waldmiller \nBrooks Hill School opened in 1962 as a primary school and is named after Lewis Brooks who once farmed the land on which it stands.\nPrincipal: Sarah Welsh (2023-)\nAsst. Principal: Caitlin Law (2022-)\nDudley Elementary School opened in 1970 alongside Northside Elementary School.\nIt is named after longtime schoolboard member Robert A. Dudley.\nPrincipal: Ryan Charno\nAsst. Principal: Amy Busby\nLead Teacher: Jeannette Maloy\n \nJefferson Avenue Elementary School opened in 1966.\nPrincipal: Erin Moretter\nAsst. Principal: Jeremy Slack\n \nNorthside Elementary School opened in 1970 alongside Dudley Elementary School.\nIt is named after the original Northside School which was located on East Avenue in the village of Fairport.\n# [Brooks Hill Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/BrooksHillElementarySchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n# [Dudley Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/DudleyElementarySchoolPerintonNewYork.jpg]\n# [Jefferson Avenue Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/JeffersonAvenueElementarySchoolPerintonNewYork.jpg]\n# [Northside Elementary School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/NorthsideElementarySchoolPerintonNewYork.jpg]\n\n## Middle school\nPrincipal: Patrick Grow\nAsst. Principal: Rebecca Short \nPerrin Middle School opened in 1954 as an elementary school and is named after the first white woman to settle in Perinton.\nPrincipal: Rebecca Short(2022-)\nAsst. Principal: George Barberi(2022-) \nThe Ayrault Road Martha Brown School opened in 1965 as a junior high school and is named after longtime Fairport teacher Martha A. Brown.\nThe original Martha Brown School was located in the former West Avenue School, which was renamed in her honor in 1959.\n# [Johanna Perrin Middle School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/JohannaPerrinMiddleSchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n# [The parking lot of Martha Brown with the overblowing Canadian Wildfire smog. | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Martha///Brown///Middle///School///on///a///smoky///day.jpg]\n\n## High schools\nPrincipal: Dominic Monacelli\nAssistant Principal: Madison Shepard\nDeLand High School opened in 1959 as the district's high school and is named after the longtime principal of the former Fairport High School on West Avenue.\nPrincipal: Robert Clark\nAssistant Principals:\nAssistant Principal: Madison Shepard\nRed House: Ryan Kuhn\nWhite House: Lyndsey Keil\nBlue House: Ashley Edwards\n \nFairport High School opened in 1970, partially replacing Minerva DeLand, which educates the district's ninth grade students.\n# [Minerva DeLand High School | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/MinervaDelandHighSchoolFairportNewYork.jpg]\n# [Fairport High School looking east | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/FairportHighSchoolPerintonNewYorkWestView.jpg]\n\n## School photographs","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}