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Changing The Status Quo

The Jamestown Board of Education and JPS Superintendent Bret Apthorpe are passionate about taking bold actions to change the status quo. The Board of Education and Apthorpe worked together to create, and adopt, six district goals for the 2019-20 school year: alignment of student programming, create a middle school transition plan, long-term financial plan, long-term physical plant plan, student attendance and JHS Modernization. The last goal, JHS Modernization, requires the help of the local community through six subcommittees. “Working together with Dr. Apthorpe, the Board decided ...

After School Programs Provide Enrichment

Jamestown Public Schools is lucky to have after school programming at all elementary schools and at Jefferson and Washington Middle Schools. “The after school programs help our youth tremendously,” said Sierra Cross, Love Terrific Kids After School Coordinator. “Within my program, I ...

JPS Excited To Welcome New Administrators

Jamestown Public Schools welcomes a few new faces to its family. New principals, assistant principals, and director and coordinator of student support services, are all excited to start the new school year to help students achieve their goals. With 75% of Jamestown Public School students in poverty, the district has created a new department, Student Support Services, to help students and their families navigate public services that can improve the likelihood of student success. JPS appointed a Director of Student Support Services, Chad Bongiovanni, and a Coordinator of Student Support ...

Summer Literacy Program Declared Resounding Success

JPS LEAP (Learning Enrichment & Academic Progress) had an amazing summer with 396 Jamestown students entering the first though fourth grades this school year enjoying literacy learning and enrichment activities with three main partners, Winifred Crawford Dibert Boys & Girls Club of Jamestown (Lincoln Elementary School), YWCA (Fletcher & Bush Elementary Schools) and YMCA(Ring and Love Elementary Schools), who also brought into the schools a wide variety of community partners to provide enrichment opportunities. LEAP ran for eight weeks from Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. ...

JPS Sends Thanks To Local Funders Of LEAP

Without the support of our local funders, the JPS LEAP Program would not be possible. Jamestown Public Schools would like to give a big thank you to: the Lenna Foundation, Ralph C. Sheldon Foundation, Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, The Cummins Foundation, United Way of Southern Chautauqua County and the Jamestown Schools Promise Fund. Their assistance helped provide vital literacy education and enrichment activities for Jamestown children this summer. The 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant, District Title 1 funds and Community Schools Aid also funded the JPS LEAP ...

Community Partners Provide Enrichment Activities

“We had an amazing summer at our LEAP programs at Ring and Love Elementary Schools,” said Gina Bloomquist, YMCA School Age & Family director. “We are so proud to be a part of the goal to minimize the summer slide, not only in literacy but also in math. We had so many amazing partners this summer to help provide our kids with additional enrichment activities and they also helped them make some amazing summer memories.” The Jamestown YMCA was just one of three partners who used their expertise and community connections to help the kids at JPS’ summer LEAP (Learning Enrichment & ...