Lake Placid Central Schools

Educational Philosophy & Goals

• Our school is dedicated to providing an education which will help our students function effectively as independent individuals in a democratic society.
• Those involved in the educational process shall work cooperatively to evaluate our program and to determine its relationship to our aims and objectives in order to maintain the highest standards.
• By working together, we shall discover better methods of achieving these objectives.

• All Students can learn. Learning is defined as pupil acquisition of essential outcomes.
• Our primary purpose is teaching and learning.
• Administrators and teachers make a key difference in the quality of education each child receives.
• Individual and schoolwide performance on achievement tests is an appropriate goal and measure of school success.
• The keys to effectiveness at the program, building, and district levels are collaboration, cooperation, collegiality, mutual support, and a concerned plan for improvement.
• Effectiveness of the school is facilitated by a sense of ownership and commitment on the part of all persons in the school.
• Norms of high performance for staff promote achievement and, in addition, counteract apathy, negative attitudes, and low performance.
• The staff is committed to the job of producing high achievement for all students.
• Extra-curricular participation is deemed as significant in the academic, physical, and social development of the child.