Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District

The Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District is the public school district which serves the Nassau County, Long Island community of Plainview and Old Bethpage, as well as small parts of Farmingdale.

Mission

The mission of the Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District is "to provide an academically challenging and stimulating environment for all students, and to enable them to realize their full potential to be happy, ethical and analytical citizens of the world. We do this by: making tolerance, acceptance, respect, honesty, and kindness expectations for all students, and for members of the Plainview-Old Bethpage school community; identifying each student's academic, social-emotional, aesthetic and physical needs, and striving to meet those needs; and encouraging communication between and among students, teachers, parents, administrators, and community members."^[1]

Schools

Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District operates eight schools in seven buildings. POBCSD has one high school, two middle schools, four elementary schools, and a unique kindergarten center, which serves all of the district's kindergarten students.

Plainview-Old Bethpage Kindergarten Center

33 Bedford Road
Plainview, New York
Principal: Ms. Francine Leiboff
Assistant Principal: Ms. Hye-Sook Kang

POB Central School District Elementary Schools (Grades 1-4)

Old Bethpage Elementary School

1191 Round Swamp Road
Old Bethpage, NY
Principal: Mrs. Suzanne Gray
Assistant Principal: Ms. Jennifer Hoffman

Parkway Elementary School

300 Manetto Hill Road
Plainview, NY
Principal: Mr. Greg Scesney
Assistant Principal: Mrs. Nicole Yerk

Pasadena Elementary School

3 Richard Court
Plainview, NY
Principal: Ms. Paulette Miller
Assistant Principal: Ms. Lynn Winters

Stratford Road Elementary School

33 Bedford Road
Plainview, NY
Principal: Ms. Alison Clark
Assistant Principal: Mr. Greg Scesney

POB Central School District Middle Schools (Grades 5-8)

Howard B. Mattlin Middle School

100 Washington Avenue
Plainview, NY
Principal: Mr. Christopher Donarummo
Assistant Principals: Mrs. Beth Torreano, Mr. Thomas Schwartz

Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School

121 Central Park Road
Plainview, NY
Principal: Mrs. Alice Bowman
Assistant Principals: Mr. Robert Dennis, Mrs. Regina Talento

Plainview-Old Bethpage John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School

50 Kennedy Drive
Plainview, NY
Grades: 9-12
Principal: Mr. James Murray
Assistant Principals: Mr. James Bolen, Mrs. Sharon Lasher, Mr. Philip Farrelly

Administration

Superintendent of Schools
Dr. Lorna R. Lewis

Assistant Superintendent for Personnel, Administration & Professional Development
Dr. Timothy Egan

Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction
Ms. Jill Gierasch

Assistant Superintendent for Business
Mr. Ryan J. Ruf

Director of Technology
Dr. Guy A. Lodico

Director of Pupil Personnel Services
Ms. Ellie Becker

Assistant Director of Pupil Personnel Services for Guidance
Ms. Laurie B. Lynn

Assistant Director of Special Ed Instruction
Ms. Catherine Maiman - Grades K-4
Ms. Dolores Binstock - Grades 5-8
Ms. Sandra Steinberg - Grades 9-12

Director of Physical Education, Recreation and Athletics/Health
Mr. Kevin McDermott

Director of Music
Mr. Josh Golbert

Director of Art
Ms. Judith Chen

Director of School Facilities & Operations II Buildings & Grounds
Ms. Kim Parahus

Transportation Specialist/Safety Officer
Ms. Nadine Eiring

Transportation Supervisor
Mr. Mark Donovan

Board of education

The Plainview-Old Bethpage Board of Education establishes policies and adopts regulations for the operation of the district's eight public schools. Its seven members serve without pay and are elected by the qualified voters of the district for a term of three years. Responsibility for administering Board policies is vested in the Superintendent.^[2]

President: Mr. Gary Bettan
Vice President: Mrs. Amy Pierno
Trustees: Mrs. Ginger Lieberman, Mrs. Debbie Bernstein, Mrs. Evy Rothman, Mrs. Emily Schulman, Mr. Angel Cepeda

DISTRICT CLERK: Harriet Fischler
DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Guercio and Guercio

History

The Plainview-Old Bethpage School District was referred to as Central School District #4 until the 1970s.

The original school in Plainview was a one room school house, built in 1899, called Manetto Hill Road School. This building, which still stands, is adjacent to the much larger school of the same name, which was built in the 1950s. Today, both buildings are owned by the Mid-Island Y-JCC. The original building is now owned by the Mid-Island Y-JCC. and houses additional Y offices. It is also rented to and serves as an office for the Nassau-Suffolk Region BBYO.

Old Bethpage had its own two room school house, built in 1919 nicknamed the Little Red Schoolhouse, located on Schoolhouse Road off of Round Swamp Road. It graduated its last two kindergarten classes in 1969. The building was torn down in the 1970s and the property was developed into several houses.

Plainview once had two high schools, Plainview-Old Bethpage High School (built 1960) and John F. Kennedy High School (built 1966). The schools were merged in 1991 into Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School. This new school kept John F. Kennedy High School's colors of blue and white and adapted the mascot of the Hawks to replace its abandoned Eagle mascot and Plainview-Old Bethpage High School's green and yellow Gulls. After the high school merger, Plainview Middle School became Plainview-Old Bethpage Middle School and moved into the Plainview-Old Bethpage High School building, and Jamaica Avenue School was closed and Stratford Road Elementary School opened in the former Plainview Middle School building. At one point, the two middle schools had been junior high schools, going up to the 9th grade, in 1978 the 9th grade was moved to the high schools. Pasadena Elementary School was closed for 18 years until it was reopened when the POBCSD redistricted for the 2000-2001 school year.

Closed Schools

• Central Park Road School (demolished)the current site of the Residence Inn Marriott, Plainview.
• Fern Place School (now the Association for Children with Down Syndrome)
• Jamaica Avenue School (now houses 2 day care centers, a private school, and hosts senior citizens' activities.)
• Joyce Road School (now the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County)
• The Little Red School House (demolished)
• Manetto Hill Road School (1899) (now the offices of the Mid-Island Y JCC of Plainview)
• Manetto Hill Road School (1950s) (now the main building of the Mid-Island Y JCC of Plainview)
• Oak Drive School (demolished)

Neighboring Districts

Residents of certain parts of Plainview, NY, are served by the Syosset Central School District and the Bethpage Union Free School District.

References

External links

• Plainview-Old Bethpage Central School District
• Plainview-Old Bethpage Congress of Teachers
• Plainview-Old Bethpage Library