Amagansett Union Free School District

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Amagansett Common School District
Address
320 Main Street
Public
GradesPK–6[1]
Established1813 (1813)[2]
PresidentKristen V. Peterson[3]
Vice-presidentDawn Rana-Brophy[3]
SuperintendentSeth Turner[4]
Business administratorThomas Mager
Governing agencyNew York State Education Department
Schools1
Budget$11,909,189 (2021-22)[5]
NCES District ID3602880[1]
District ID580303020000[6]
Students and staff
Students130 (2021-22)[1]
Teachers13 (FTE)[1]
Student–teacher ratio10[1]
Other information
Websiteaufsd.org

Amagansett Union Free School District is a

East Hampton.[7]

The district operates one school, the Amagansett School, serving grades PK through 6.[6] The total enrollment for the 2020–2021 school year was 136 students.[8] Students then complete their education at the East Hampton Middle School and East Hampton High School as part of a tuition agreement with the East Hampton Union Free School District.[9]

Maria Door is the school's principal and Seth Turner is the district's superintendent.[4] Turner's predecessor, Eleanor Tritt, was in the role from 2008 to 2018.[10] Turner had previously been superintendent of the Saugerties Central School District since 2009.[11]

Amagansett is bordered by the Montauk school district to the east, the Springs district to the north, and East Hampton district to the west.[7]

History

The original schoolhouse, built by Samuel Schellinger in 1802, was located on Amagansett Street (now Main Street/Montauk Highway) in the center of town.[12] The district itself was founded in 1813.[2]

In 1864, the schoolhouse was moved to Atlantic Avenue and Main Street near the Amagansett Cemetery in 1864.[12] This was replaced by a building at the nearby intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Abrahams Landing Road in 1881.[12] The older building was auctioned off, but was later donated back to the district in 2014.[12]

The current brick schoolhouse is a Georgian-style building that opened in 1936 with the aid of a $75,000 Works Progress Administration grant.[13][14]

In February 1989, voters approved the district's proposal to purchase a two-bedroom house adjacent to the school grounds that would serve as a home for the superintendent.[15]

Amagansett's 2020–2021 budget proposal in February 2020 forecasted an increase of 15 students in the school due to the opening of a new affordable housing complex in the district.[16] In reality, partially as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, enrollment nearly doubled to 136 students,[8] a number not seen since the 1970s.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Amagansett Union Free School District". National Center for Education Statistics. Institute of Education Sciences. Retrieved February 14, 2023.
  2. ^
    Patch
    . Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Board of Education". Amagansett Union Free School District. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Administration". Amagansett Union Free School District. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  5. ^ "Property Tax Report Card" (PDF). Amagansett Union Free School District. April 8, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Amagansett Union Free School District". New York State Education Department. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  7. ^ a b "School Districts". Town of East Hampton. April 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  8. ^ a b Silverman, Irene (January 14, 2021). "Enrollment Nearly Doubled at Amagansett School". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  9. ^ Berger, Joseph (January 2, 2009). "Making Sense of School Consolidation". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  10. ^ Vespe, Elizabeth (November 26, 2019). "Eleanor Tritt To Retire As Superintendent Of Amagansett School". The Southampton Press. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  11. ^ Kemble, William J. (June 27, 2018). "Saugerties school district superintendent leaving to take job on Long Island". Daily Freeman. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  12. ^ a b c d "Amagansett School District To Receive A Piece Of Educational History". The Southampton Press. October 24, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  13. ^ Rather, John (June 30, 1996). "If You're Thinking of Living In/Amagansett, L.I.;A Down-to-Earth Hamptons Alternative". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  14. ^ Cudzilo, Brian (July 4, 2018). "When America Works, America Is Great: A History of WPA Projects in the Hamptons". Dan's Papers. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  15. ^ Ketcham, Diane (January 8, 1989). "Long Island Journal". The New York Times. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  16. ^ Sampson, Christine (February 5, 2020). "Amagansett School Gets Ready for New Arrivals". The East Hampton Star. Retrieved January 22, 2022.

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