Mission:

The OgdensburgCitySchool District is a multi-building district located in a rural area on the United States border with Canada.  As a SmallCitySchool District, our mission is to provide a school environment that is safe, nurturing, and culturally enriched.  All students, as individuals and members of a group, will be inspired to participate in planned educational experiences with the expectation that they will become effective communicators, complex thinkers, and productive workers.

Beliefs:

Students, parents, school personnel, and community members share the responsibility for our children's education.

Individual differences must be recognized and respected.

Positive self-esteem is necessary for students to demonstrate, respect, self-reliance, confidence, discipline, and tolerance.

School must be a place where everyone feels safe and secure at all times.

Firm, fair, and consistently applied discipline promotes an orderly and structured learning environment

The learning environment cultivates self-direction, cooperation, creativity, individuality, critical thinking, and the desire for lifelong learning.

Literacy, numeracy, thinking and strong communication skills are essentials of academic competence.

All students are capable of learning and must experience opportunities to achieve academic success to practice civic values and to become productive community members.