Pine Bush Elementary School

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Location
Pine Bush Elementary School

Pine Bush, New York, USA
Information
School district	Pine Bush Central School District
Principal	Steve Fisch
Enrollment	811^[1]
Faculty	53^[1]
Type	Public
Grades	K-5
Campus	Suburban
Homepage	Pine Bush Central Schools

Pine Bush Elementary School is one of four operated by the Pine Bush Central School District in Orange County, New York, USA. It is located a short distance off NY 302 on Ulsterville Road south of Pine Bush, not far from Pine Bush High School.

It educates children in kindergarten through fifth grade from not only Pine Bush but Thompson Ridge, Bullville, Circleville and the adjoining portions of Sullivan and Ulster counties. Along with E. J. Russell, the school has sent teams to the international Odyssey of the Mind finals.^[2]

Completed in 1991 [1], PBE was constructed on land which is considered by locals to be swampy ground, and has regularly experienced indoor air quality problems of mysterious origin. Over the years, numerous parents and teachers have accused the facility of suffering from sick building syndrome.

During most of 2006/07 school year, the kindergarten wing at PBE was evacuated due to deadly stachybotrys black mold, while these classrooms underwent total interior renovation. ^[3] After work was completed, the kindergarten wing was declared safe and re-opened in Sept. 2007. However, parents continue to complain that their children have been getting sick frequently, for extended periods, suffering symptoms consistent with toxic mold poisoning. In late 2007, parents launched a website, fungusbusters.org, dedicated to exposing the school's 17-year history of indoor air quality health problems, scanning and posting stacks of hard-to-find public records detailing this issue.