Updated: statement on bus altercation

Update; Sept. 22, 2:11 p.m. The Monticello Central School District is aware of an altercation that transpired  between two students on a school bus on Monday, September 20. We are following up with the students and families involved to provide appropriate district resources. While we cannot share specific remedial action due to student privacy laws, …

September Monti Message

Superintendent’s Monti Message – September 2021 Back to School Over 2700 Monticello CSD students in grades K–12 returned to our schools on September 8.  Our students and staff were excited to resume full, in-person instruction in all our schools for the first time since March 2020. Similar to the start of previous school years, some …

Update on contact tracing; RJK will pivot to remote instruction. SJS and all other schools remain open

haga clic aquí para español Dear Monticello CSD Community Member, Based on our contact tracing results from yesterday’s three cases at Robert J. Kaiser Middle School (RJK) and St. John Street School, we will need to switch RJK MS to remote instruction for the week of September 20 through September 24. The results showed approximately …

Six new COVID-19 cases in district; contact tracing ongoing

haga clic aquí para español Dear Monticello CSD Community Member, Since yesterday morning, we have received reports of six (6) new cases of COVID-19 positive students in Kenneth L. Rutherford Elementary School and three (3) at Robert J. Kaiser Middle School. Most of these students were last in their respective schools on Monday or Tuesday …

Positive COVID-19 case at KLR; school will continue as scheduled

haga clic aquí para español Dear Monticello CSD Community Member, Yesterday, we received notice that an individual in Kenneth L. Rutherford Elementary School tested positive for COVID-19. This individual was last in the school on Wednesday, September 15. Rutherford ES administration determined this person was in contact with approximately 44 others who, we believe, will most likely …

Issuance of P-EBT benefits ongoing

*This article was originally published July 8 on the MCSD website; we are reposting it now in September as local families have begun receiving their benefits. As a reminder, Monticello Central School District is not affiliated with this program. We are distributing this information as a public service and can not answer specific questions about …

Dogwood tree planted in celebration of Chris Sorensen at Chase Elementary

On Thursday, Sept. 2, a crowd gathered at the Emma C. Chase Elementary School to dedicate a tree in memory of Chris Sorensen. Chris, the son of Legislator Alan Sorensen and Monticello Central School District’s EPIC Program Manager Jane Sorensen, attended the Chase school as a child and worked in the school’s Empire after-school program, …