Giving our students the vision to reach for the stars, the skills and fortitude to climb the ladder, and the wisdom to appreciate the beauty of the journey.
Congratulations to all of our 2019 Retirees who collectively have almost 1,000 years of experience serving in the District. They will all be truly missed, but we wish them well as they enter a new chapter in their lives!
Banners were hung throughout OP to celebrate the Class of 2020 & today Seniors received graduate gift bags. The message read “In thanksgiving for the gifts you have shared with our community and in recognition of your accomplishments, we wish you the best in the future.
Congratulations to OP athletes Alex, Trevor, Thomas, Joshua, Adam, Joseph, Philip, Lillian, Kasey, Isabel, Madigan, Victoria, and Abigail who signed their letters of intent today to play their sports at the college level! We wish them continued success.
#nationalsigningday
#NSD19
Congratulations to OP athletes Jenna Crean, Jake Schaffer, Julia Schurr, Elizabeth Blake, Elizabeth Lis, Sydney Bielicki, and Fabiola Adorno who signed their letters of intent to play their sports at the collegiate level! We wish them continued success.
@op_athletics
6 OPHS seniors committed to play their sports at the collegiate level at a ceremony
@op_athletics
. Congratulations Brooke Becker, Sophia Machowski, Abby Ryan, Max Streety, Jaden Swiatek and Charlotte Takacsy. We wish them continued success in their athletic and academic careers.
An
@OPSchools
Bus Driver received the sweetest thank you yesterday!
"Thank you for taking the time to drop off a Chromebook to my house today so I can do my online schoolwork. Please accept this bag of pre-packaged goodies as a token of my appreciation."
In the spirit of homecoming, Varsity Football players and Cheerleaders paid a visit to their former elementary schools this morning, welcoming the students as they walked into school! ☀️
This afternoon Orchard Park High School held an assembly to celebrate being recognized as a 2022 National Blue Ribbon School. Orchard Park High School is one of three high schools in NYS to be designated as a National Blue Ribbon School twice! Congratulations again OPHS!
Today 14 seniors committed to play their sports at the collegiate level. Congratulations Archie, Paige, Matthew, Emily, Katelynn, Emma, Carissa, Katie, Zachary, Molly, Caitlin , Jordan, Sarah and Trinity. We wish them continued success in their athletic and academic careers.
Superintendent Dave Lilleck, OPHS Principal Jon Wolf, and OPHS Teacher Emil Erlandson are in Washington, DC today attending the 2022 National Blue Ribbon Schools Award Ceremony. Way to go OPHS! 🌟
14
@op_athletics
seniors committed to play at the college level this spring. Congratulations seniors! We wish them continued success in their athletic and academic careers!
Three
@op_middleschool
teachers Mrs. Daniszewski, Mr. Spillman & Mrs. Staebell recently received a plaque from
@RoswellPark
for going Bald 4 Bucks. They went bald 4 bucks at home, while schools were closed this spring, & raised $5,590 for their Bald 4 Bucks campaign. Way to go!
OPHS has been recognized as a 2022
@NatlBlueRibbon
School. This award recognizes the outstanding work of the entire
@OPSchools
culminating with student achievement at OPHS. OPHS is being recognized again in its first year of eligibility since receiving this award in 2016.
Ten OPHS senior student-athletes committed to collegiate sports and celebrated during an outdoor photo event this afternoon. Visit to learn all the details!
@op_athletics
This afternoon throughout the district there were emotional “Goodbye Drive-by” events for our 5th & 8th grade Ss at OPMS, Ellicott, South Davis and Windom. Eggert will hold their event Monday. Parents and Ss were able to drive through the school parking lots and wave goodbye!
This week
@OP_DECA
donated all of the snacks from the Quaker Corner school store to Kaleida Health workers in the emergency rooms of Oishei Children's Hospital and Buffalo General. Way to go OPHS DECA!
Some
@OPSchools
teachers and staff members participated in making 66 button headbands & 34 ribbon button extensions to attach headbands to for healthcare workers at Hospice Buffalo! Way to go Mrs. Rominger, Mrs. Grossman, Mrs. Piscitelli, Mrs. Staebell and Mrs. Henault!
Today the Orchard Park Central School District welcomed back our students! We have missed them so much!
Grades K-3 along with students in Cohort A were welcomed back today. We are looking forward to seeing students in Cohort B tomorrow!
Thirty-five Orchard Park seniors were recognized as Orchard Park Pride at an awards dinner last night April 16th. These students were recognized for their outstanding character, leadership and achievement. Congratulations seniors!
Today Veterans Day was celebrated throughout the District. Veterans Day is a time to thank and honor all Veterans. These brave men and women have made great sacrifices to ensure and protect our freedoms. Thank you for your service.
Teachers and staff were welcomed back to
@OPSchools
today for the 2022-2023 school year! This morning Anneliese Henrich played harp as teachers and staff arrived, high school students sang the National Anthem to kick off the presentation and we wrapped up w/ a QMB performance!
On July 18th OPCSD held three graduation ceremonies @ OPHS for the Class of 2020.
Visit to view both the recordings of the live graduation ceremonies and the Virtual Graduation.
Congratulations to the Class of 2020!
We are happy to announce that
@opclassof2018
earned over 10 million dollars in scholarships and have gained acceptance to some of the nation's leading colleges and universities including MIT, Cornell, and Dartmouth.
⭐ Congratulations to Orchard Park teachers, Nicole Costello and Jim Roland on becoming New York State Master Teachers! They join a network of exceptional educational professionals committed to professional growth & providing innovative learning for students. Way to go! 🥳
OPCSD welcomed teachers and staff back today for the 2019-2020 School Year. At the opening day presentation representatives from varsity athletic teams brought in the flags and
@eggertelem
student, Catherine Baker sang the National Anthem.
Elementary Students wore pajamas to school today to show support for P.U.N.T. (
@PUNTpedcancer
) 💛
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🎗️This nonprofit group provides families in WNY facing pediatric cancer with programs that offer financial, practical and emotional support.
OPHS senior Ben Spitz will represent
@TheFirstTeeWNY
at the 2018 PURE Insurance Championship at Pebble Beach this weekend! Watch live on the Golf Channel from Sept. 28-30. We wish him all the best!
#PUREChamp
@op_athletics
(Photo credit: Ronald Montesano)
The Annual STEAM Expo was a huge success! Attendees engaged in Science, Tech, Engineering, Art and Math Activities! All of the students, teachers and staff involved did a phenomenal job putting this awesome event together!
@opmstech
@op_middleschool
@OrchardParkSTEM
👏⚙️⛵🤖🎨
This morning
@eggertelem
held their “Goodbye Drive-by” event for 5th grade students. Parents and students were able to drive through the school parking lots and wave goodbye to the teachers and staff!
Exactly fifty years ago today,
@EllicottElem
opened its doors for the first time and welcomed students to a new school. This is what the first day of school looks like fifty years later!
#EllicottTurns50
First grade classes
@WindomElem
celebrated the 120th day of school this week. They chose to celebrate this day because it is a standard in first grade to count 120 from any given number. This day was filled with fun STEM activities and the students had a blast!
South Davis Elementary's
@AdamKreutinger
will appear on the
@FoodNetwork
Worst Cooks in America tonight, January 1 at 8 p.m. Good luck Mr. Kreutinger, we are cheering for you! 🎉
Worst Cooks in America, Season 25: Meet the Recruits
OPCSD BOE Vice President and OP alumnus Dwight Eagan has been honored with the 2021 Laura M. Burns Advocacy for Children Award. Congratulations on this honor!
Officer Mazur of the Orchard Park Police Department is providing weekly safety tip videos to Orchard Park Elementary students. Thank you Officer Mazur for putting this resource together for our students! Click the link below to see the first video!
We are happy to announce that for the fourth consecutive year the Orchard Park Central School District has been named one of the Best Communities for Music Education!
2020 Best Communities For Music Education Districts via
@NAMM
Foundation
Student Council members
@EllicottElem
created a virtual greeting card and used money raised from their Book Store to buy cookies to deliver to lunch & transportation staff as a way to say thank you for working hard to deliver meals along with other essential materials to our Ss.
Orchard Park Central School District retirees were recognized at a ceremony prior to the June 14th Board of Education Meeting. Cumulatively our retirees have worked
@OPSchools
for more than 747 years. Congratulations OPCSD Retirees your knowledge and experience be missed!
Earlier today Speaker Carl Heastie and Assemblyman Patrick Burke announced $1 million in school safety funding for
@OPSchools
and
@WestSenecaCSD
schools. OP will receive 500k from the NYS Assembly and these funds will be used to enhance the safety and security of our schools.
Ss in the
@opmstech
@op_middleschool
have been busy this week! Ss have been working on their Air Skimmers: laying them out, testing and launching them as iterations to improve their designs, cutting out blueprints for architectural models and exploring STEM careers.
We welcomed back students in Cohort B today and students in grades K-3 had their second day of school!
We also wanted to give a shout out to K-12 Remote Learning students who started back to school yesterday
The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association announced Mr. David Hack,
@op_athletics
is recognized as a Certified Master Athletic Administrator. One of a very elite group of interscholastic athletic administrators nationwide. Congratulations Mr. Hack!
"Horrible Harry" is anything but horrible! Thank you,
#99
Harrison Phillips, for stopping by OPHS yesterday. He gave our juniors and seniors a pep talk + some tips for the upcoming "Powder Puff" flag football game this Friday at OPHS Stadium.
#GoBills
#GoQuakers
@horribleharry99
Daryl Helfman
@op_middleschool
teacher was selected as the 2021 recipient of the Academy for Human Rights’ Reed Taylor Award for Excellence in Human Rights Education. Congratulation Mr. Helfman!
#ahrbuffalo
.org
OPCSD Bus Driver Ms. Terrie passed out chalk to students on her elementary bus runs to celebrate the beginning of spring. Check out some of the impressive chalk creations the students on her route made!
8th Grade
@opmstech
students have been 3D printing and laser cutting ornaments to bring some holiday cheer to staff and patients at St. Joseph's Hospital.
Mr. Muffoletto, a second grade teacher
@eggertelem
will appear on the Food Network's Halloween Cookie Challenge next Monday Oct. 3 at 10 p.m. Good luck Mr. Muffoletto we will all be rooting for you!
Congrats QMB! The 131-member QMB capped off a successful 2018 fall season by competing at the NYSFBC Championship show in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse. They finished in fourth place out of ten bands in the Large School Division 2 Class with a score of 85.25.
OPCSD is encouraged by the impressive turnout at the first presentation of our Mental Health Awareness series. We are proud our community is making mental health a priority.
Today,
@SouthDavisK5
students rode their bikes to school! What a great morning for a bike ride! 🚴♂️🚴♀️🚴Thank you to everyone who helped make this great event happen!
This week's Buffalo Bills spirit week was a huge success. Students and staff wore Bills gear or red white and blue every day this week.
Let's Go Buffalo!!!
As a way to keep OP spirits up and keep students involved,
@OPHSstapcomm
has planned some week-long “Coronacation” Challenges for the student body. The results of the first challenge OPHS Cupcake Wars is in! The winner is Kelly Barnes with her Cookie Monster Cupcakes!
In March
@SouthDavisK5
held a March Madness Read-a-Thon. Every Friday Ss throughout the building would come together and read. Mr. Dolce, even committed to dying his hair rainbow colors if the students read more than 2,000 books. The Ss managed to read over 3,000 books!
We are pleased to announce that the OPCSD has been given a Best Communities for Music Education designation by the NAMM Foundation for the second year in a row!
#bestcommunitiesformusiceducation