Eagle Hill Middle School students and staff have a new outdoor space to use thanks to the fundraising efforts of the Eagle Hill Home and School Association. On Friday, Nov. 6, Home and School Association (HSA) members gathered under the 24-by-24-foot pavilion located behind the school to officially mark its completion with a ribbon cutting. …
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On Nov. 12 and 13, schools across the country that the U.S. Department of Education recently named National Blue Ribbon Schools, including Fayetteville-Manlius School District’s Mott Road Elementary School, will be virtually celebrated on a national stage. On Sept. 24, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos designated 367 schools, including Mott Road, as 2020 National …
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The College Board recently recognized high school students across the country who have shown outstanding college-level achievement through their performance on Advanced Placement (AP) Exams during the 2019-20 school year. In 2020, Fayetteville-Manlius School District students earned a total of 127 AP Scholar-level distinctions. AP Scholar Award The College Board grants AP Scholar awards to …
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When Kiki walks the Fayetteville-Manlius High School halls, she often causes a stir among the students. “Oh, look! There’s Kiki!” students say to one another as smiles light up their faces. With her friendly disposition, Kiki is quick to walk over and say hello with a nudge of her nose and wag of her short …
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The Fayetteville-Manlius School District Girls Varsity Soccer Team has been recognized for excellence both on and off the field. United Soccer Coaches, the world’s largest soccer coaches’ organization, named the F-M team as one of 23 high school teams and nine college programs as recipients of the United Soccer Coaches Team Pinnacle Award for the …
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Six Fayetteville-Manlius High School students are semifinalists in the 66th Annual National Merit Scholarship Program. The F-M students are among 16,000 students—a select group that represents less than 1% of high school seniors nationwide—who qualified for the scholarship program by scoring among the highest in their respective states on the Preliminary Standardized Achievement Test (PSAT). …
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Three Fayetteville-Manlius High School seniors were selected to participate in the 2020 All-National Honor Ensembles as part of the National Association for Music Education’s (NAfME) annual conference. F-M seniors Sadie Fridley, Lindsay Hebert and Gerard McCrohan were among 50 New York state students chosen to participate. The All-National Honor Ensembles represent the top performing high …
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For the 10th consecutive year, the Fayetteville-Manlius School District maintained its number two ranking in academics out of 430 Upstate public school districts, according to a Buffalo-based business magazine. In the Syracuse Area, which includes 54 school districts within Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Oswego and Tompkins counties, F-M ranked first. On Oct. 5, the magazine, …
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Blue may be the color of choice at Mott Road Elementary School following the Fayetteville-Manlius School District school’s designation as a Blue Ribbon School, an honor reserved for public and private K-12 schools that have achieved high levels of academic success or have made significant improvement in closing achievement gaps. On Sept. 24, U.S. Secretary …
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While schools were closed statewide due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Fayetteville-Manlius School District took advantage of its buildings being unoccupied to continue and, in some cases, move up scheduled “essential” construction projects. In preparation for the construction at Wellwood Middle School that is part of the 2017 voter-approved capital project, the district has separated …
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