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WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (WIVB) - Western New York has a strong showing in the latest Business First rankings of Upstate New York school systems.
Williamsville is fourth, Clarence comes in at number ten, East Aurora is 13th, and Orchard Park is number 20. Rochester-area Pittsford is rated upstate's best school district. Buffalo Schools were third from the bottom, at 429th.
1. Pittsford (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
2. Fayetteville-Manlius (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
3. Brighton (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
4. Williamsville (Erie County, Western New York)
5. Skaneateles (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
6. Honeoye Falls-Lima (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
7. New Hartford (Oneida County, Utica-Rome Area)
8. Niskayuna (Schenectady County, Albany Area)
9. Cazenovia (Madison County, Syracuse Area)
10. Clarence (Erie County, Western New York)
11. Voorheesville (Albany County, Albany Area)
12. Bethlehem (Albany County, Albany Area)
13. East Aurora (Erie County, Western New York)
14. North Colonie (Albany County, Albany Area)
15. Guilderland (Albany County, Albany Area)
16. West Irondequoit (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
17. Jamesville-Dewitt (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
18. Westhill (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
19. Victor (Ontario County, Rochester Area)
20. Orchard Park (Erie County, Western New York)
21. Penfield (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
22. Alfred-Almond (Allegany County, Western New York)
23. Marcellus (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
24. Amherst (Erie County, Western New York)
25. Vestal (Broome County, Binghamton-Elmira Area)
26. Maine-Endwell (Broome County, Binghamton-Elmira Area)
27. Alden (Erie County, Western New York)
28. East Greenbush (Rensselaer County, Albany Area)
29. Grand Island (Erie County, Western New York)
30. Shenendehowa (Saratoga County, Albany Area)
31. Bemus Point (Chautauqua County, Western New York)
32. Lansing (Tompkins County, Syracuse Area)
33. Clinton (Oneida County, Utica-Rome Area)
34. Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake (Saratoga County, Albany Area)
35. Lewiston-Porter (Niagara County, Western New York)
36. Iroquois (Erie County, Western New York)
37. Hamburg (Erie County, Western New York)
38. Baldwinsville (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
39. West Genesee (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
40. Potsdam (St. Lawrence County, Watertown Area)
41. Fabius-Pompey (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
42. Canandaigua (Ontario County, Rochester Area)
43. Saratoga Springs (Saratoga County, Albany Area)
44. Chazy (Clinton County, Plattsburgh Area)
45. Lancaster (Erie County, Western New York)
46. Fairport (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
47. Webster (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
48. Avon (Livingston County, Rochester Area)
49. Weedsport (Cayuga County, Syracuse Area)
50. West Seneca (Erie County, Western New York)
51. Spencerport (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
52. Lake George (Warren County, Albany Area)
53. Frontier (Erie County, Western New York)
54. Akron (Erie County, Western New York)
55. South Colonie (Albany County, Albany Area)
56. Cambridge (Washington County, Albany Area)
57. Barker (Niagara County, Western New York)
58. Ithaca (Tompkins County, Syracuse Area)
59. Holland (Erie County, Western New York)
60. Hilton (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
61. Caledonia-Mumford (Livingston County, Rochester Area)
62. Town of Webb (Herkimer County, Utica-Rome Area)
63. Eden (Erie County, Western New York)
64. Tully (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
65. Gananda (Wayne County, Rochester Area)
66. Geneseo (Livingston County, Rochester Area)
67. Schodack (Rensselaer County, Albany Area)
68. Beaver River (Lewis County, Watertown Area)
69. Southwestern (Chautauqua County, Western New York)
70. Queensbury (Warren County, Albany Area)
71. Bloomfield (Ontario County, Rochester Area)
72. Chenango Forks (Broome County, Binghamton-Elmira Area)
73. Wayne (Wayne County, Rochester Area)
74. Niagara-Wheatfield (Niagara County, Western New York)
75. Sweet Home (Erie County, Western New York)
76. Chautauqua Lake (Chautauqua County, Western New York)
77. Whitesboro (Oneida County, Utica-Rome Area)
78. Wilson (Niagara County, Western New York)
79. Owego-Apalachin (Tioga County, Binghamton-Elmira Area)
80. Pembroke (Genesee County, Western New York)
81. Rush-Henrietta (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
82. Starpoint (Niagara County, Western New York)
83. Schuylerville (Saratoga County, Albany Area)
84. Greene (Chenango County, Binghamton-Elmira Area)
85. Liverpool (Onondaga County, Syracuse Area)
86. Ballston Spa (Saratoga County, Albany Area)
87. Stillwater (Saratoga County, Albany Area)
88. Salem (Washington County, Albany Area)
89. Chittenango (Madison County, Syracuse Area)
90. Saranac Lake (Franklin County, Plattsburgh Area)
91. Churchville-Chili (Monroe County, Rochester Area)
92. Naples (Ontario County, Rochester Area)
93. Scotia-Glenville (Schenectady County, Albany Area)
94. Duanesburg (Schenectady County, Albany Area)
95. Schalmont (Schenectady County, Albany Area)
96. Springville-Griffith Institute
Last in a series of profiles of the three finalists for Kingston school district superintendent.
Joseph Prisinzano, one of the three finalists to succeed Kingston schools Superintendent Gerard Gretzinger, has implemented programs designed to bring real-life experiences to the classroom and teach youths at his high-achieving high school leadership skills.
Prisinzano, principal at Jericho Senior High School on Long Island for the last six years, where the four-year graduation rate for the 2010 class was 98 percent and the five-year rate for the 2009 class was 100 percent, said his students were well-equipped with academic knowledge but school officials noticed they were lacking in real-world knowledge.
The result was a program similar to an internship, but students use the learning opportunity to bring information back to the classroom on Tuesdays and Thursdays. “They’re not paper pushing,” said Prisinzano (pronounced prison-zauno) of the work. “That would be unacceptable.”
The program is in its fifth year, and the 34-year-old principal estimated 10 to 15 percent of students in the 280-pupil graduating class were enrolled. And three students have gotten full scholarships related to their work in the class, he said.
Examples Prisinzano cited of how the class works included a student working at an accounting firm to study the impact of financial regulations like the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (which deals with corporate auditing and responsibility) or in the education field to report on the effects of the No Child Left Behind Act.
The other program is called Building Outstanding Leaders, or BOLT, and tasks students with taking on different roles in projects targeting small community changes. For example, Prisinzano said, one group of students was appalled by paper and plastic waste at the school, so they lobbied local government officials, resulting in Jericho High School becoming “one of ... the first schools” to become part of the Nassau County recycling program.
Another initiative, which started before Prisinzano arrived but was expanded under his leadership, was an effort to tear down barriers between students and high-level courses like honors and Advanced Placement classes in an effort to encourage rigor.
“If they are willing to take on the challenge, we need to be willing to support them in their efforts,” he said of removing grade and test score restrictions to signing up for the classes.
The idea is to promote an academic environment that promotes high expectations and the feeling that everyone can achieve, Prisinzano said. He said he would like to bring some of those ideas to the Kingston school district, which he described as a place he wanted to work because it presents an opportunity and a challenge to reach a diverse group of students with many needs.
The Kingston school district’s most recent available school report card shows 40 percent of its 2009-10 student body qualified for free or reduced-priced lunched, 3 percent had limited English language proficiency, 67 percent of students were white, 17 percent were black, 10 percent were Hispanic, 3 percent were multiracial and 2 percent were Asian.
The most recent report card for Prisinzano’s current school shows 1 percent of the student body qualifies for free and reduced-price lunches, 1 percent has limited English proficiency, 65 percent is white, 31 percent is Asian, 2 percent is black, and 1 percent is Hispanic. He described the district, in which many affluent families live, as a relative outlier in his career, however.
Prisinzano, who grew up in Buffalo, previously was principal for about two years at Niagara-Wheatfield High School, where he said there is a large American-Indian population and one elementary school is on a reservation. Four-year graduation rates among students from the Tuscarora Reservation were 33 percent, and college acceptance rates were 8 percent, Prisinzano said, attributing the data to a historic mistrust of the district by the Indian population.
On his watch, the high school, which is in western New York state, began to work closely with tribal leaders and chiefs, an effort that grew into the hiring of a liaison who became the “eyes and ears of both sides” and a transition program that starts at the middle school level, Prisinzano said. The liaison took on an guidance counselor-like role, he said, helping to identify at-risk students and getting them the support they needed. Years later, 97 percent of the 12th-graders in 2011 graduated, and college acceptance rates have grown to 60 percent, he said.
Prisinzano described the Kingston school district’s comprehensive education plan as “tremendous” and said the smaller learning community and professional learning community approaches that school leadership has been implementing recently have been shown to promote better achievement.
He also spoke of the work of educational researcher Douglas Reeves, who came up with a philosophy for addressing achievement gaps similar to the Race to the Top and common-core curriculum reforms that Kingston school officials have been working to implement. Components include a focus on student achievement, “solid curriculum choices,” frequent assessments to allow students and teachers to address weaknesses, a focus on non-ficton writing and collaborative scoring of writing among teachers.
Prior to his job at Niagara-Wheatfield, Prisinzano was assistant principal at Sweet Home High School, also in western New York, from 2001 to 2003, and he taught math and computer science at Lancaster High School and Oakfield-Alabama Middle School, in the same part of the state.
In Kingston, he met with interview committees and the school board on Tuesday.
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