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Charles B. Warring Elementary School
Charles B. Warring Elementary School is one of four elementary schools serving City of Poughkeepsie students. In 2019-2020 enrollment was 374.
Address: 283 Mansion St.
Phone: 845-451-4751 (During the COVID-19 pandemic, call 845-264-3940)
Principal: Julliet Coxum, jcoxum@poughkeepsieschools.org
Main Office hours: 7:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
School hours: 8:00 a.m. - 2:35 p.m.
Enrollment: 374 (2019-20)
Staff: 65 (2019-20)
School Nurse: 845-451-4755
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Warring students’ art helps celebrate Earth Day
Sen. Sue Serino is showcasing several Warring Elementary School students’ art projects online as part of the New York State Senate’s Earth Day poster and art celebration. Teacher Kathy Orza got word of the annual poster and art celebration through an email from Serino’s office and assigned her students a project based on this year’s theme: “How You Reduce, Reuse or Recycle.”
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Teacher adds fun to Fridays through virtual field trips
Students in Rebecca Ban’s class work hard at Warring Elementary School, but Ban and teacher assistant Donna Roman, try to make each lesson interesting and provide activities to engage students.
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ConnectED NY Parent / Caregiver Application
The ConnectED NY program is providing hotspots and data plans to students with unreliable internet service at home. ● A mobile hotspot provides a secure internet connection for other devices. ● Through AT&T, households will be offered unlimited data through June 2022. Internet service may be slowed each month after exceeding a high data usage threshold (50 GB). ● No payments or financial information required. ● Mobile hotspots will be mailed to student/caregiver homes in May 2021. Or, option to pick-up at a school district location if needed.
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Warring students learn about diversity, create MLK posters
Students in Kathleen Orza’s classes at Warring Elementary School spent two weeks learning about diversity and talking about their similarities and differences.
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Warring Elementary School safety data sheets
Safety Data Sheets for chemicals used at Warring 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.
