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Samuel F.B. Morse Elementary School
S.F.B. Morse Elementary School is one of four elementary schools serving City of Poughkeepsie students. In 2019-2020 enrollment was 561.
Address: 101 Mansion St.
Phone: 845-451-4690 (During the COVID-19 pandemic, call 845-392-7371)
Principal: Samantha Mitchell, smitchel@poughkeepsieschools.org
Main Office hours: 7:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
School hours: 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Enrollment: 561 (2019-20)
Staff: 70 (2019-20)
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Morse School Open House
Meet your child's teacher at 5pm, 5:30pm or 6pm. Meet the Principals at 6:30pm. Please click the link above for the Meeting links.
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Morse School Principal Fireside Chat
Join Principal Mitchell on the Fireside Chat on September 14, 2021 at 6:30 PM.
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Puppet show adds fun to Morse art lessons
Melissa Cascio’s art students shared their learning experiences with a guest from another planet this year as Scribble from Splat joined the class for most of the year. In reality, Scribble is a puppet character created by Cascio and her husband - exclusively for Morse Elementary School students.
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Morse SSTAR students meet animals on virtual field trip
Students in Morse Elementary School’s Social Skill and Total Communication Access Room learned about rivers and estuaries last week on a virtual field trip to the Clarkson Beacon Institute of Rivers and Estuaries. Host Brigette Walsh welcomed the kindergarten through third grade students and asked them to name an animal that lives in the Hudson River.
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Morse staff misses you
Morse Elementary School staff are really missing the students. So, they decided to make a video showing how much they miss them.
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Burlington surprises Morse teachers with $10,000 donation
Morse Elementary School teachers and students couldn’t contain their excitement when Burlington Stores surprised them with a $10,000 donation during a regularly scheduled school assembly.
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Morse Elementary School safety data sheets
Safety Data Sheets for chemicals used at Morse Elementary School.
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NYS Assemblyman Jacobson visits ELC pre-K
New York State Assemblyman Jonathan Jacobson, D-104,visited the pre-K program at the Early Learning Center this week to see how money appropriated for such programs is being used.
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Counselor preps students for college, career
Activity under the newly established Poughkeepsie City School District College and Workforce Education program is underway. The K-12 program is designed to support the college going mindsets and career exploration interests of the district’s more than 4,200 students.
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Register now for new extended learning time program
A redesigned extended learning program being offered to all Poughkeepsie City School District students builds foundational skills in project-based classes.
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Harlem Children's Zone founder meets with local leaders
On Oct. 15, leaders from the Education Redesign Lab (EdRedesign) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the William Julius Wilson Institute at Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) visited the City of Poughkeepsie, to learn more about the Children’s Cabinet and Dutchess County’s efforts to create cradle-to-career systems of opportunity children and families.
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Rhinebeck Bank turns to teens for solutions
Five Poughkeepsie High School students spent five weeks during the summer working on ways to help Rhinebeck Bank develop a way to teach financial literacy to teens.
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Football team victorious at homecoming
The Poughkeepsie Pioneers triumphed over Horace Greeley in Saturday’s homecoming game, clinching the No. 1 seed in the six-team, Section I Independent Schools and earning the team a bye for the first week of playoffs. “Our guys were excit
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Pizzolla brings international experience to district
Poughkeepsie City School District’s Assistant Business Manager Andrea (Andre) Pizzolla brings international business experience to his role, having worked for Barclaycard International and Yahoo in Ireland among others before heading to the United States in 2012.
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Full day pre-K launches successfully
Thanks to a partnership with Healthy Kids at the Reformed Church of Poughkeepsie, Poughkeepsie City School District’s seven, full-day pre-K classes are off to a great start.
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District resources help prevent bullying
Research indicates that nationally 90 percent of students in grades 4-8 have been harassed or bullied with 20 percent of students in grades 9-12 experiencing it. Cyberbullying is experienced by 9 percent of students in grades 6-12.
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O'Connell helps teachers help students
Helping teachers meet the needs of students academically, behaviorally and socially-emotionally is what Alicia O’Connell comes to work each day to do.
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District rolls out student responsibilities posters at PHS, PMS
Everyone has a part to play in the success of our schools – including the students. To that end, Poughkeepsie High School and Poughkeepsie Middle School are hanging posters throughout their buildings outlining student responsibilities to help students understand how they will contribute to their personal and collective success as students.
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Board of Education meets Wednesday, encourages input
Poughkeepsie City School District wants to hear from parents about their child’s education and suggestions on how the district can strengthen its partnership with families.
