Hammondsport Central School District

Message from the Superintendent

Dear Hammondsport Families,

We are excited to welcome our students back to school on Tuesday, September 2, 2025! The first day of school is always filled with energy, anticipation, and new opportunities for learning and growth. Our teachers and staff are ready to make this a positive and successful year for every student.

We kindly remind parents to review daily routines with their children, ensure transportation plans are set, and to keep an eye out for important communications from the district and your child’s school. Together, we can make the transition back smooth and enjoyable.

We look forward to a wonderful school year and can’t wait to see our Lakers back in the classrooms and hallways!

Go Lakers!

Warm regards,
Brian M. Corey
Superintendent of Schools
Hammondsport CSD

Optional Parent Student Cell Phone Policy Discussion.
Tuesday August 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM Room 134

Huge congratulations to all the amazing young readers who completed the Kids Read Now summer reading challenge last year! 🎉 Your dedication to reading is truly inspiring, and we're so proud of each and every one of you. And guess what? The adventure continues! Our first round of books for this summer's challenge have already been delivered! Get ready to dive into new stories and explore exciting worlds. We can't wait to see what adventures you'll embark on this year! #KidsReadNow #SummerReading #ReadingChallenge #YoungReaders #Bookworms

To the Parents and Guardians of 6th-12th grade students, please make sure Student Chromebook Use forms are completed and returned to the school district by the first day of classes to ensure your students receives their device. The form can also be completed at this link as well. https://forms.gle/QevAfxQSAstyLtAh9

The new school year is just around the corner, and we are so excited to welcome our newest students! Ms. Buckley and Mrs. Koehler, recently finished visiting all of our new PK students at home. They loved getting to meet all the families and can't wait to see all their new students in the classroom. We're all looking forward to a wonderful year of learning and growth!

A huge thank you once again to our amazing partners at KanPak! Because of their incredible generosity, all students at Glenn Curtiss Elementary will receive new school supplies to start the year off right. We're so grateful for their continued support in helping our students succeed! #KanPak #GlennCurtissElementary #CommunityPartnerships #ThankYou

HCS has a Special Education Teacher and coaching positions available for the 2025-2026 school year. See the attached postings for more information.

Congratulations to our Final Silver Lakers for the 2024-2025 school year. We are so incredibly proud of all your hard work! Keep up the fantastic job. Go, Lakers!

Our annual Curtiss Family Cookout and Field Day kicked off this year with a special seaplane demonstration by Rob Kinyoun. What a fantastic way to kick off the day and send Superintendent Kyle Bower off into retirement. In Hammondsport, we truly do “Dream Big, Work Hard, and Fly High!”

Congratulations to our Silver Lakers for the week of 6/9-6/13. We are so incredibly proud of all your hard work! Keep up the fantastic job. Go, Lakers!

The Student Council had been very excited to be asked by the administration, Officer Joe, and local law enforcement to come up with new names for the hallways in their school. Instead of just Corridor A or Corridor B, these new names, they believed, would make locations throughout their building more easily identifiable, making communication clearer and keeping everyone safer. They took this assignment very seriously. They researched how and why communities chose the names they did for streets. What they discovered was that the majority of streets and roads were named to recognize and honor people, events, or locations. They also learned the difference between words such as avenue, lane, and place. Using a lot of this new information, they worked really hard to come up with just the right name for each of the 8 hallways in their building. Today they had the opportunity to share not only the names of the hallways but why they chose the names and what the new signs would look like.

Congratulations to our final Glenn Curtiss Golden Lakers of the 2024-2025 school year! These students are visionary and inspire positive action in others. They recognize, invest in, and leverage others' strengths to build collective ownership and action. These Golden Lakers help create an environment that empowers others to grow and succeed. Congratulations to these fantastic Lakers! A special recognition to Mrs. Bower for her many years of service to HCS and the community. Best wishes on your retirement 💜

Congratulations to our Silver Lakers for the week of 6/2-6/6. We are so incredibly proud of all your hard work! Keep up the fantastic job. Go, Lakers!

The Hammondsport Teachers Association offers students awards annually. This year, they recognized students in grades 3rd and 5th. The Hammondsport Alumni Association joined them this year by recognizing students in grades 4th and 6th. These young people were selected by their teachers for meeting the following criteria: working hard and showing enthusiasm, having Laker characteristics in both school and the community, having a positive outlook in all kinds of situations, and helping out teachers and fellow students throughout the day. Congratulations to this year's recipients!

HCS has a Groundskeeper position available. See attached posting for more information.

HCS will be closed today (6/10) due to the flood damage and state of emergencies surrounding us. Stay safe everyone.

Huge congratulations to all the amazing young readers who completed the Kids Read Now summer reading challenge last year! 🎉 Your dedication to reading is truly inspiring, and we're so proud of each and every one of you. And guess what? The adventure continues! Our first round of books for this summer's challenge have already been delivered! Get ready to dive into new stories and explore exciting worlds. We can't wait to see what adventures you'll embark on this year! #KidsReadNow #SummerReading #ReadingChallenge #YoungReaders #Bookworms

Pre-K 500 Champions! What an incredible afternoon at our annual Pre-K 500! Our little racers did an amazing job zooming to the finish line. The energy was electric, and we were so impressed by their determination and teamwork. Every single racer was a champion today!