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Academics

Our Academic Program

Enter to learn; go forth to serve. Inspired by our mission and by the Portrait of a New York State Graduate, Pleasantville UFSD provides a rich and responsive academic experience committed to helping students develop into their best selves. Guided by New York State Standards, we offer a course of study providing various pathways to success, embedded in a caring, supportive, and inclusive community. With the student experience at the heart of our work, our curriculum encourages students to explore their passions and engage in the local and global community, while ensuring that they are academically prepared to step out into the world. Ultimately, our curriculum provides students with the skills, strategies, habits of mind, and knowledge to understand themselves, the world around them, and their place in that world.

Bedford Road School

Pleasantville Middle School

Pleasantville High School

A Framework for Learning

 

A graphic titled Learning at Pleasantville shows a green tree sprouting from a book, surrounded by a multi-colored wheel and labels for educational concepts.

This vision is grounded in Pleasantville's Framework of Learning, a shared set of principles that defines what meaningful learning looks like across every classroom, grade level, and subject area. This framework gives teachers a common language for designing instruction and gives students a consistent lens for understanding their own growth, whether they're solving an equation, analyzing a text, or building a project. It reflects the belief that learning is more than the accumulation of content: it is the development of thinking, character, and purpose that students carry with them long after they leave a classroom.