City School District of Albany
The City School District of Albany is the public school district of Albany, New York. The district is an independent public entity. It is governed by the City School District of Albany Board of Education, whose members are elected in non-partisan elections for staggered, four-year terms. The board selects a superintendent, who is the district's chief administrative official. The district's offices are located in the Old Albany Academy Building at Academy Park. It publishes a seasonal newsletter called Capital Education.
The district has eleven elementary schools, four middle schools, one comprehensive high school, and several other programs of various types, including alternative-education programs in grades 7-12 at the Tony Clement Center for Education, and the Albany International Center, which serves English-language learners in grades 6-12. The 2018-2019 school year saw enrollment at 10,068
Schools
High schools
- Albany High School- comprehensive high school), which includes the Abrookin Vocational-Technical Center
Middle schools
- Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School
- Edmund J. O'Neal Middle School of Excellence
- William S. Hackett Middle School
- North Albany Middle School
Elementary schools
- Albany School of Humanities
- Arbor Hill Elementary Community School
- Delaware Community School
- Eagle Point Elementary School
- Giffen Memorial Elementary School
- Montessori Magnet School
- New Scotland Elementary
- Roots Academy at West Hill
- Pine Hills Elementary School
- Sheridan Preparatory Academy
- Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology
Other
- Albany International Center
- Tony Clement Center for Education
Board of education
There are seven board members, elected in May in conjunction the annual school budget vote. Board members serve staggered four-year terms, which expire on June 30. Officers are elected by the members. Current board members, as of February 2020:Vickie Smith Anne Savage Sridar Chittur, Ph.D. Damarise MannTabetha WilsonEllen Krejci- ''Hassan Elminyawi''
Recent superintendents
- 1975–1982: David Bray
- 1982–1989: David Brown
- 1989–1994: John Bach
- 1994–1996: Arthur "Sam" Walton
- 1996–1997: Eleanor Bartlett
- 1997–2003: Lonnie Palmer
- 2003–2004: Michael Johnson
- 2004–2009: Eva C. Joseph, Ed.D.
- 2009–2012: Raymond Colucciello, Ed.D.
- 2012–2016: Marguerite Vanden Wyngaard, Ph.D.
- 2016-2017: Kimberly Young Wilkins, Ed.D.
- 2017–2023: Kaweeda G. Adams
- 2023: John Yagielski
- 2023–present: ''Joseph Hochreiter''