|
1811 |
First Log School Built |
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1,850 schools in the area were
part of School District No. 1 of the Town of Cohocton |
|
1812 |
New York State Law requires
every town to have a school. |
|
1813 |
West Cohocton School
established in former Charles and Ella Marshall Stone House |
|
1815 |
Wayland School was located in
current Village of Wayland. |
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North Cohocton, Atlanta
log school house constructed at current Cottrell, Post
Office parking lot. |
|
1850 |
District became known as
"District No. 1 of Wayland." |
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Taxpayers of Bloods Corners
spend $450 to build school house. |
|
1870 |
North Cohocton Bloods Union
Free District organized. |
|
1871 |
Site acquired from Wightman
and Gise for a new school. |
|
1874 |
School completed. Levy of
$3,000 pays for building. |
|
1880 |
Cohocton Union Free School
Reorganized as Union Free District. |
|
1894 |
District becomes jurisdiction
of the University of the State of New York. |
|
1895 |
Teacher Training School
started. |
|
1898 |
State Education Department
recognizes academic program and grants approval or a
secondary school ranking. High School diplomas have been
given ever since. |
|
1934 |
Cohocton School building
erected on Park Avenue. |
|
1942 |
Bush District became part of
Cohocton Central High School. |
|
1945 |
North Cohocton A Ceases to be
a school - joins the Wayland Central System. |
|
1946 |
Voters approve purchase of a
new school site for a central school building located on the
Dansville-Wayland Road consisting of 45 acres at a cost of
$12,000. (Current home of the Wayland campus.) |
| |
Fire Destroys large portion of
school building on Lackawanna Street. Churches and buildings
in Atlanta and Springwater pressed into service to house
students. |
|
1950 |
New Grade school and bus
garage open on new Wayland school site. |
|
1953 |
New High School opens at new
Wayland site. |
|
1957 to 1963 |
Growing student population
leads Wayland voters to approve additions in 1957, 1962,
1968, and 1969. |
|
1975 |
Wayland Central School
population is 1,925; teaching staff - 100; non-teaching
staff - 100; Investment in building and site is
approximately $6,000,000. |
|
1988 |
Voters approve increasing
Board of Education from five to seven members. |
|
1990 |
New Middle School addition and
science wing built at Wayland campus. |
|
1993 |
Wayland Central and Cohocton
Central Districts merge to create Wayland-Cohocton Central
School. Wayland campus becomes prekindergarten through grade
12 and Cohocton campus houses prekindergarten through fourth
grades. |
|
1994 |
Voters approve Phase I at a
cost of $4.95 million for renovations and home and careers
suite. |
|
1995 |
Voters approve Phase II at a
cost of $22.1 million to build new high school wing,
cafeteria, and field house at Wayland campus. At Cohocton
campus new classrooms and cafeteria along with building
improvements. |
|
1998 |
Voters approve Phase III at a
cost of $13.9 million for LGI (Large Group Instruction
Room), technology and art additions, and new bus garage at
Wayland campus. |
|
|
PreKindergarten Program added |
|
2000 |
District statistics: Student
population: 2055; Teaching Staff: 180; Non-teaching staff:
150; Budget $22,079,968 |
|
2002 |
District statistics: Student
population: 1900;Teaching and Administrative Staff: 185;
Non-teaching staff: 160; Budget: $23,146,202. |
|
2003 |
Voters approve a $2.06 million
building project for maintenance and code-related work |
|
|
District Statistics:PreK-12
Student population: 1880; Teaching and Administrative Staff:
178; Non-Teaching Staff: 180; Budget: $23,661,675 |
