Williamsville Central School District (commonly abbreviated WCSD) is a public school district in New York that serves the village of Williamsville, as well as the towns of Amherst, Cheektowaga, and Clarence. The district enrollment is approximately 10,600 students throughout 13 schools in the district.[1] The district superintendent is Dr. Darren Brown-Hall.[2] It is headquartered near Casey Middle School and North High School at 105 Casey Rd, East Amherst, NY 14051. The district also has an active technology distribution drive which provides all middle schoolers with Chromebooks.
The entire district utilizes an online information tracking system called WITS (an abbreviation for Williamsville Information Tracking System) which is used by students, parents, teachers, and other staff to track student grades, clubs, events, class-specific documents and student-teacher/parent-teacher communication. Additionally, students are able to take quizzes and tests on the website, in which they will be automatically graded when they finish taking the quiz/test.[3]
A Williamsville Central School District principal, Dr. Daniel Walh, (principal of Transit Middle School) was named 2021 New York State Secondary School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State. [4]
Ranking
Top district out of 97 public school districts in western NY, 2012.[5]
Williamsville East, South, North High schools awarded gold, silver medals in 2012 U.S. News Best High Schools, ranking 57th, 86th, 88th out of 1165 in the state respectively. These 3 high schools rank among the top 2-3% out of 21,776 public high schools nationally; 2012.[6]
Central and Union Free school districts are authorized to operate high schools, though not all do, while common school districts may not operate high schools.
