Challenge on!

Sixth grade students at Circleville Middle School took the tower lab challenge last week – with much success. Their goal was to construct a free-standing tower using the fewest number of index cards in order to hold a stuffed animal for 20 seconds.  They used this lab to explore the Scientific Method. The student groups …

More opportunities thanks to a donation by Polaris

Pine Bush High School is now a Polaris Powersports University Program. Students may now train to work on motor sports vehicles, including motorcycles, snowmobiles, ATVs and UTVs and other Polaris models. Polaris, an American producer of snowmobiles, ATVs and Victory and Indian motorcycles, donated two motorcycles, two four-wheelers, several motors and mechanical parts to the …

Crispell National Junior Honor Society open to seventh and eighth graders

Seventh and eighth grade students at Crispell Middle School are eligible to become members of the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS), an organization that recognizes outstanding middle school students. There are five requirements in order to be inducted into the NJHS: scholarship, service, citizenship, leadership and character. Scholarship – students must achieve a 93 or …

Pine Bush welcomes staff back for the 2018-2019 school year

Pine Bush Superintendent Tim Mains welcomed staff members back to the district on Tuesday, Sept. 4, the day before school opened for students. Included were 33 new teachers to the district. Looking to the upcoming school year, Mains discussed the recently completed Strategic Plan entitled “Tomorrow Begins Today,“ a document culled from the input of …

Here’s to our summer grads

Pine Bush High School graduated 10 students during its summer session. Pictured here are, from left, Makaiah Watson, Israel Sanchez, Jessica Pantoja, Meadow Marasco, Dylan Flessa, Melanie Baggatta, Alayna Andryshak and Ronishard Alcenat. Not pictured are Giavanna Nedbal and Samual Syvertsen. Congratulations to Pine Bush High School’s most recent graduates.

Circleville Elementary School named National PTA School of Excellence

Circleville Elementary School was recently recognized as a National PTA School of Excellence for the 2018-2020 school years. National PTA’s School of Excellence program supports and celebrates partnerships between PTAs and schools that work to improve the educational experience and school environment for every child. This program provides guidance to assist schools in engaging families …

PBE Moisture Mitigation Project – Final Update from Superintendent Tim Mains

Friday, August 24, 2018 This will be my last update on this very significant project. Once school had ended, we began to address the remaining rooms in the back hallway (where the main office had been relocated), following the same protocol we used for the rooms affected by the original January flood. The experts we …

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Pine Bush Central School District
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Joseph Lenz
Superintendent of Schools
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