Dear Parents and Guardians,

I have some good news to report and it's all due to the wonderful support from you and yours! 

As many of you may remember, last spring we were informed that our school would no longer have the Title One coordinator position. The loss of this position caused some changes in how we staffed our school and in the amount of time we were able to provide academic support to our students. The loss of the program happened because we did not have enough students/families signed up for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program. 

During the 2011-12 school registration, we did a big push to have everyone complete a Free and Reduced Lunch form and it really helped. We are currently at 47.8% with Free and Reduced Lunch and we needed over 40% to receive  federal funding to get our Title One Coordinator back. This program is based on a year-to-year percentage of F/R Lunch numbers. Therefore, in order to keep our Title One funding we need to continue to complete the Free and Reduced Lunch forms during registration each school year.  The staff and I would like to thank you for your continued support of the program.

More good news. This past February we did a small fund raiser with the School Mall Program.  You may remember seeing the paper work and information regarding how to do on line shopping through the Schoolmall.com web site. This fund raiser has and will continue to help us raise money for our school. On April 20th, I gave our teachers $825 worth of gift cards from the School Mall donations program. We will continue to recieve money from the program through the ordering of magazines as well as the percentage we get back from the on line purchases.  I personally would like to thank everyone who has donated and/or participated in this program. Thanks for all you do for our school.

Enjoy your Spring! Get out had have some fun!

Dr. John J. Marchino Jr.