North Syracuse Central School District
The North Syracuse Central School District (NSCSD) is a public school district in Central New York in the United States. The district is located just outside Syracuse, New York. It serves the communities of North Syracuse, Clay, Cicero, Bridgeport, and Mattydale. The District covers 89 square miles with approximately 56,000 residents.
In July, 2013, Annette Speach became the Superintendent of Schools. Speach has worked for the District since 1985, first as a special education teacher, then as an elementary school principal, director of human resources and most recently, as the assistant superintendent for educator effectiveness and human resources. She replaced Dr. Kim Dyce Faucette as Superintendent of Schools.
The North Syracuse Central School District is the largest of the 23 component school districts in the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison (OCM) Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES). As a component of the OCM BOCES, NSCSD participates in its career and technical, alternative and special education programs.
Board of education
Current board members are:
- Michael Shusda, President
- Michael A. Mirizio, Vice President
- Paul Farfaglia
- George Harrington
- Elizabeth Kasch
- Michael Leone
- Scot McClintock
- Mary Scanlon
- Jacqueline Owens
Connie Gibson is currently the District Clerk
Administrators
- Annette Speach, Superintendent of Schools
- Daniel Bowls, Associate Superintendent for Teaching and Learning
- Donald F.X. Keegan, Associate Superintendent for Business Services
- Dawn Wilczynski, Assistant Superintendent for Instruction
- Jason Nephew, Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources
Schools
Pre-Kindergarten
- Early Education Program at Main Street School
- Principal: Dawn Hussein
Elementary (Grades K-4)
- Allen Road Elementary
- Principal: David M. Lunden
- Karl W. Saile Bear Road Elementary
- Principal: John Cole
- Cicero Elementary
- Principal: Kathleen Wheeler
- Lakeshore Road Elementary
- Principal: John Lawrence
- Roxboro Road Elementary
- Principal: Matthew Motala
- Smith Road Elementary
- Principal: Lyndsey Maloney
Middle Schools (Grades 5-7)
- Gillette Road Middle
- Principal: David Cordone
- Associate Principal: Shawn Akley
- Roxboro Road Middle
- Principal: David Shaw
- Associate Principal: Michelle Costello
Junior High (Grades 8-9)
- North Syracuse Junior High
- Principal: Constance L. Turose
- Associate Principals: Charles P. Yonko, Jr. (House I) and Reginald R. White (House II)
Senior High (Grades 10-12)
- Cicero – North Syracuse High School
- Executive Principal: William LaClair
- House Principals: Jamie Sullivan-Pounds (House I), Ann Lorenzini (House II) and Nikki Slater (House III)
Logo
The District logo was redesigned in 1994. The district held a contest open to the community to design the new district logo. The current logo was designed by then Junior Joseph Byrns (class of 95) in a computer graphics course at Cicero-North Syracuse High School.