Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire. One of the first cooperative school districts established in the state of New Hampshire in 1954, ORCSD has a history of progressive educational philosophy, including heterogenous grouping and differentiated instruction. This tradition was recently affirmed by a strategic planning process which culminated in the district philosophy and vision statement. Serving around 2,000 students, the district consists of 2 elementary schools (one each in Lee and Madbury), a middle school, and a high school. It has its own school administrative unit (SAU 5), with its own superintendent.^[1]

Schools

ORCSD consists of four schools:

• Oyster River High School^[2]
• Oyster River Middle School^[3]
• Moharimet Elementary School^[4] in Madbury
• Mast Way Elementary School^[5] in Lee

Administration

• Dr. James Morse, Sr., Superintendent^[6]
• Todd Allen, Assistant Superintendent
• Catherine Plourde, Director of Special Services
• Susan Caswell, Business Administrator

School board

The school board for the Oyster River Cooperative School District consists of seven members, elected through a ballot vote in early march of each year. Serving staggered three-year terms, two members are re-elected each year for at-large seats, with three town-specific seats up for election every third year.^{[7][1][8][9][10]}

• Brian Cisneros, Lee representative, 2018
• Tom Newkirk, At-Large, Durham resident, 2019 (Chair)
• Michael Williams, At-Large, Madbury resident, 2020
• Al Howland, Durham representative, 2018
• Denise Day, At-Large, Durham resident, 2020 (Vice Chair)
• Kenneth Rotner, At-Large, Durham resident, 2019
• Daniel Klein, Madbury representative, 2018

References

External links

• District home page