York Central School Knightly News

York Central School was presented with the Excellence in Student Services Award for the recently renovated STEAM floor, which opened in the fall of 2022.

"We were thrilled to be able to take an underutilized and somewhat forgotten space in the building and be able to transform it into modern STEAM classrooms that our students and faculty can use to further education in current technologies," Board of Education President Mr. Steve Beardsley commented.

York School’s STEAM floor (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) includes state of the art classrooms where students take courses such as STEAM 8, Intro to Forensics, AP Physics, MS Coding, AP Computer Science, HS STEAM, Intro to Cyber Security, CAD, Architecture, DDP, Photo Journalism, Intro to Digital Media Arts, Photography, and Capstone.

Teaching STEAM courses are Mr. Peter Apps, Mr. Michael Barrett, Mrs. Marcy Boyd, and Ms. Kathleen Andrzejczak.

"It is an honor to be recognized as a district for the work that our teachers have put into building courses that are relevant to our student body and life beyond the walls of a school. Students have risen to the challenge and embraced the innovative and rigorous experiences," remarked Middle/High School Principal Mrs. Lindsey Peet.

The Genesee Valley School Boards Association presents the award annually to recognize outstanding programs and services taking place in school districts within the Genesee Valley BOCES.

“Thank you to the Genesee Valley School Boards Association for hosting the annual Legislative Forum and for recognizing York Central School District’s STEAM floor, and our commitment to offering multi-disciplinary courses that will prepare our students for success in any career aspiration,” York Superintendent of Schools David Furletti commented.

York High School students Lily Donnan, Ashley Gianforti, and Anna Chen had their artwork selected for the Starting Here Exhibition at the Bevier Gallery on the campus of Rochester Institute of Technology.

Lily also received the School of Art Robert Heischman Award for her acrylic painting entitled, Haystacks.

Penny Murray is their art teacher at York CSD. The exhibit was open to the public through February 3, 2024. Read about the exhibit here: https://www.rit.edu/artdesign/exhibitions/start-here-2024

York Central School was well represented at the Genesee Valley School Music Association's All County Festivals on January 27 at Keshequa Central School and on February 3, at Letchworth Central School.

Congratulations to all of our YCS instrumentalists and vocalists for your outstanding performances.

Excerpt from LCAA's Finest

Senior Jake Pangrazio's name is now set in the YCS athletic history books after he surpassed alumnus Matt Orman's (1998) basketball record with 1,046 points in their game against Letchworth on January 2, 2024. Matt Orman is the brother to York head basketball coach Ed Orman Jr. (pictured).

"It's a well-deserved honor for Jake to ascend to the top of the scoring leaderboard,” coach Orman Jr. said. “He's put in a ton of work and has had such great support from his family and team. I couldn't be more happy for him and look forward to watching him still grow and improve this season.”

Congratulations Jake!
Photo by Doug McFarland

Elementary School PE teacher Mrs. D'Archangelo led students through a series of core strength exercises and they are really getting strong!

Elementary School STEAM teacher Mrs. Feltham taught the students about power input and output sources. The students used cubelets to demonstrate the use of power to make objects move!

York Freshmen Myra Beardsley and Emily Harwood compete on the Pavilion-York CSD Riflery team and both are achieving success in their competitions! Myra and Emily both get plenty of practice between shooting on the P-Y team, and also during the week on 4H and club teams. Good luck to Emily and Myra and the Pavilion/York Riflery team as they compete in sectionals on February 10, 2024 at Perry Central School.

York Central School Board of Education

Steven Beardsley, President
Laura Geary, Vice President
Christine Bianchi

Kara Kane

Kirsty Northrop

Marilyn Moore

Kevin Reed

Administration

David Furletti, Superintendent
Heather Kent, Elementary School Interim Principal

Lindsey Peet, Middle/High School Principal
Aubrey Krenzer, Director of Curriculum & Instruction

Megan Logsdon, CSE Chairperson

Paul Liess, Business Administrator