Geneseo Central School District

Geneseo Central School District is a district having an elementary and middle/high school in Geneseo, New York.

The district has a strong emphasis on the core subject areas, kindergarten through the twelfth grade. It also offers foreign language classes, music and art. The schools have guidance counselors, a psychologist and a social worker. The classrooms and library include computers. The school campus has an auditorium, gym, pool, and lighted playing field for track, football and soccer. The elementary part of the school is not the only elementary school in town.[1] Grades K - 5 are about 400 students.[2]

History

Geneseo’s school was at first located in the center of town in 1820 on land donated by James and William Wadsworth.[3] The Wadsworths had purchased tens of thousands of acres from the Seneca Indians in about 1790. "Geneseo" is Seneca for pleasant valley.[4] In 1779 the Seneca's had evacuated Geneseo because of the Sullivan Expedition.[5] In 1932 the school became a museum when the state college opened Holcomb School. Holcomb School later closed and became the Welles Building, now part of the State University of New York at Geneseo campus.[3] Holcomb School was named after Dr. Winfield A. Holcomb, a President of Geneseo State Normal School, a predecessor of today's SUNY school.[6] Holcomb School was moved to a new building, which was torn down in 2012 to make room for a sports building for the College at Geneseo.[7][8][9]

Geneseo’s high school opened in 1830. It was located on the east side of the village. It was at first called Livingston County High School and later the Geneseo Academy. It closed in the early 1870s. This was because Geneseo State Normal School opened a high school within its building. In 1930 Geneseo began building a high school again because the winds of politics had closed the Normal School’s high school because it was run by the state. The new high school building was built on 79 acres of land donated by the Wadsworths and opened in 1933. The building is now known as the Doty Building.[10] The high school moved to its present location in 1974.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "Education in Geneseo, NY". Geneseony.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  2. ↑ "Geneseo Elementary School". Geneseo Central School District.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Livingston County Historical Museum". Livingston County Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  4. ↑ "History of Geneseo, NY". Geneseony.com. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  5. ↑ "Geneseo High School Yearbook 1932". Mystrees.com. pp. 7, 8. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  6. ↑ "Geneseo High School Yearbook 1932". Mystrees.com. p. 4. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  7. ↑ Google image of the razed "new" Holcomb School https://www.google.com/maps/@42.794735,-77.823787,3a,75y,279.37h,78.03t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s0onN-VR9Tx4dsHxwpQHeHg!2e0
  8. ↑ http://www.geneseo.edu/~facplan/projects/stadium/stadium
  9. ↑ http://www.geneseo.edu/news_events/suny-geneseo-breaks-ground-new-athletic-stadium
  10. ↑ "Geneseo High School Yearbook 1933". Mystrees.com. pp. website caption under photo of cover, and book’s page 6. Retrieved 2013-03-14.
  11. ↑ Jen-o-see 74 -75, yearbook of the school. 1975.