Maple St
Hudson Falls, NY

My son started school there after Headstart and is now an Honor student in the High School. The school was the beginning of nurturing his interests and encouraging him to explore all posibilities. He is a member of the National Honor Society, Band, Jazz Band, All County and All State Music, participates in NYSMA yearly, Varsity Football, Wrestling, & Track, Theater, etc just to start. The school system offers but the teachers encourage and guide.

Mixed results with the school staff. They want you to think they care about parents opinions or decisions but they do not. They are also very sneaky within the community and rely heavily on Facebook and Google. The schools budget is on par with some of the largest schools in the area but falls short of showing anything for it. If you have kids that go to this school, be prepared to do a lot of the teaching yourself so you know they’re getting taught correctly and learning what they should. I have three children that were all honor roll and merit roll students. Mainly because of us…….

The school could care less about the community and majority of the students. They have a budget that rivals much bigger and better ran schools in the state yet they fail to even meet educational standards across the board. They can’t even keep bus drivers. Last year they couldn’t get the track team to meets without parents and coaches bringing students themselves or by using school vans and making multiple trips. They can’t even pick up kids during the week. This week they didn’t have enough bus drivers. So, instead of notifying the affected families in a timely manner, they decided that EMAIL alone was sufficient. Even the email was sent only 45 min prior to pick up. They seem to not know how to use texts or phone calls. They use a site called “parent square” and that is it. Unless it’s a snow day, then their notifications seem to work. Must be hard to narrow it down to a couple bus routes and notify appropriately. This school is a huge tax waste and a big burden on people in this community. Stay away or plan on teaching at home on top of regular school if you want your children to succeed out in the world.

While the home room teachers seem mostly competent and dedicated, there seems to be an overall sense of apathy. A "let's just get them through this" kind of attitude. Opportunities or invitations for parental involvement are almost nil. The foods in the school lunch program are horrible. The science program and after school music program are disappointing at best, and until recently the art program was downright abusive. I personally can't wait to get my kid out of this entire district.

I had a decent experience while my daughter attended the Margaret Murphy Kindergarten Center. My daughter was treated well in every aspect, but the communication between the school and parents as far as regulations and policies for a student with a special diet wasn't neccessarily the greatest and my daughter missed out on things she shouldn't have had to miss out on as far as special snacks goes. Overall though, the school was fairl good.