Mahopac Central School District

• Mahopac K-12 Comprehensive Counseling Plan: On July 1st, 2017,  New York Board of Regents adopted amendments to Commissioner's Regulations related to school counseling. Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school district shall develop district-wide and building-level comprehensive developmental school counseling/guidance plans which set forth the manner for compliance with this subdivision. Such district and building level plans shall be updated annually, available for review at the district offices and each school building, and made available on the district’s website.  The Districts plan which, includes building functions can be accessed here.  Final 2019-2020 - MCSD Comprehensive K-12 Counseling Program 3.pdf 

In 1998, Linda Darling Hammond argued that“teacher quality is the factor that matters most for student learning.”This belief is further illustrated by Geringer (2003) who not only affirmed that a good teacher is a crucial factor in student learning, but stated that teacher quality outweighs the importance of standards,funding,and class size. Professional development is a common and necessary approach to improving teacher quality.

Mahopac Central School District places emphasis on providing staff with high quality, effective professional learning activities, grounded in researched based best practices.  All professional learning functions are coordinated by the Office of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional Learning. 

Our current Professional Learning Plan (PLP) can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Y_e_UG8xjitxeKtTChwyrF7ZGf5luT_Oz_Q04V6Et8A/edit?usp=sharing 

The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has released guidance on the PLP which can be accessed here: http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/programs/postsecondary-services/plp-guidance.pdf 

• Compliance with CR Part 154: Before the end of each school year, the district prepares and makes widely available through public means (including, but not limited to, posting on the internet, distribution through the media, and distribution through public agencies), an estimate of the number of English Language Learners who are expected to be enrolled in each school and in each grade within each school, as well as the number of English Language Learners in the district who speak the same home language, in the following school year. [CR 154-2.3(d)(1)]. A bilingual education program is implemented if there are 20 or more students in the same grade level or in two contiguous grades (K-8) who speak the same home language, which is other than English, within the district. [CR 154-2.3(h)(3)]"  
  • Please find  MCSD's 2021/2022 estimated data as of Spring 2021  below:  

  • School	Grade	ELL Students Per Grade
    Austin Road Elementary	1	5
    	2	3
    	3	5
    	4	10
    	5	3
    	K	5
    Austin Road Elementary Total		31
    Fulmar Road Elementary	1	3
    	2	3
    	4	4
    	5	7
    	K	5
    Fulmar Road Elementary Total		22
    Lakeview Elementary	1	8
    	2	12
    	3	9
    	4	12
    	5	6
    	K	10
    Lakeview Elementary Total		58
    Mahopac High School	9	7
    	10	5
    	11	7
    	12	1
    Mahopac High School Total
    Mahopac Middle School	6	14
    	7	7
    	8	7
    Mahopac Middle School Total		28
    Out of District	GD	8
    Out of District Total		8
    Grand Total		159