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C.V. Starr Statement of Student Success

Successful students understand their role in learning and put forth their best effort to achieve their potential. Successful students are motivated and inspired to continuously improve academically and personally. Successful students are respectful and responsible school citizens who contribute to a positive learning community.

C.V. Starr Mission Statement

To celebrate life, learning and the pursuit of academic excellence,to encourage and inspire respect,to embrace diversity and to value the accomplishments of all members of the C.V. Starr school community.

C.V. Starr participates in the General Mills’ Box Tops for Education program. For more information click here!

Our day at C.V. Starr begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. Our current enrollment is 289 students in grade four and 247 students in grade 5. Our teachers at C.V. Starr work as teams which allows them to share the responsibility for teaching the various subjects. The small size of our two person teaching teams, allows many of the benefits primary teachers experience in a traditional elementary model, while at the same time provides some of the specialization of a secondary model. A child’s homeroom teacher or parent can quickly assess the performance of a student/child by speaking with, at most, one or two other teachers on the team. The most common teaching approach at C.V. Starr requires one teacher to provide instruction in Language Arts for a 90-minute block of time while their partner teaches Science and Math to their class for 45 minutes each. Later in the day the two classes switch, and the process repeats itself. Social Studies is then taught by both staff members to their homeroom classes. All of the various instructional models that have been developed have proven very successful over the past few years.

C.V. Starr also offers Instrumental Music lessons,before and after school Enrichment workshops, a before-school Chorus program, Intramurals, and an entire spectrum of support services ranging from counseling to direct special education teacher support within a classroom.

The Intermediate School is completely networked with a T1 line and Internet and E-mail access. We currently have over 100 computers in the building and every classroom has at least three computers available to students. We also have seven state of the art wireless portable computer lab. Teachers in any class can use these notebook computers which can access the internet. Recently, the Brewster Central School District has purchased video conferencing equipment which will allow our students, for the first time, to take virtual tours around the world!

The Library Media Center is also equipped with 9 computers as well as over 7,000 books.

Information regarding the Intermediate School’s performance on both the state and standardized tests are available upon request at the C.V. Starr Main Office.