Crushing the escape room challenge

There was an escape room challenge for students in Kimberly Canaperi and Deirdre Babcock’s forensic science class at Pine Bush High School – and these students met the challenge! The project started with students having to gather evidence that was placed in different locations throughout the school. These evidence locations were taped off like a …

Music to our ears! Elementary, middle school students excel at all-county festival

This past weekend all four elementary schools and our two middle schools had students perform in the OCMEA Elementary All-County Music Festival at Twin Towers Middle School.  Pine Bush had 29 students participate in the festival in band and chorus. An extra special honor was having three students from our district selected to do solos …

Dr. Wizard mesmerizes our CES students with a super scientific adventure

Circleville Elementary Students were mesmerized by the science of Dr. Wizard! Dr. Wizard, also known as Larry Mandrese, makes CES an annual stop with his entertaining and educational presentations of science experiments. They captivated our CES students in every grade with their visual effects and Dr. Wizard’s enthusiastic demonstrations! Students saw Dr. Wizard light a …

Car show postponed to May 6

The EJR PTA Annual Car Show is being postponed from this Saturday, April 29,  to Saturday, May 6. The rain date is Sunday, May 7. 

District thanks law enforcement; PBHS student arrested for falsely reporting an incident

We would like to take this opportunity to again thank the responding law enforcement agencies for their swift and thorough response in order to provide for the safety and security of our staff and students during yesterday’s active shooter incident. Based upon their investigation, the New York State Police released the following statement earlier today. …

EJR monthly newsletter is posted!

Click here to view the May edition of the EJR newsletter.  The latest newsletter can always be found on the EJR webpage under About EJ Russell Elementary.

PBHS parent/teacher conferences rescheduled to May 3

Please be advised that due to the events of yesterday, we are moving parent/teacher conferences from this evening to next Wednesday, May 3.  The times will remain the same, and we appreciate your continued support.  

PBE fourth-graders celebrate Earth Week with garden weeding and encouragement from Clemmy and Joseph

Fourth-grade students in Stacey Venzel’s class at Pine Bush Elementary rounded out their celebration of Earth Week with some awesome work. The class picked up litter around the school and weeded the courtyard at PBE as part of their unit on understanding processes that shape the earth. This tied in with their Positivity Project this …

YESS students encourage all to Say Something and save lives

The Youth Empowerment and Sustainability Skills (YESS) students at Pine Bush High School were spreading the word as they hosted Say Something week, a partnership with Sandy Hook Promise. The YESS students set up reminders throughout the school for students to speak up and say something if they notice warning signs and threats from individuals …

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Pine Bush Central School District
State Route 302, Pine Bush, NY 12566
Phone: (845) 744-2031
Fax: (845) 744-6189
Joseph Lenz
Superintendent of Schools
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