ABOUT US
Cooperstown Central School District covers all or parts of five towns in north-central Otsego County, New York. The 99-square-mile district is a mix of picturesque farmland, rolling wooded hills, small hamlets and the historic Village of Cooperstown.
Major employers in the region include Bassett Healthcare, which operates a regional medical center in Cooperstown, New York Central Mutual Insurance, Chobani, Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta.
The district has an elementary school and a jr./sr. high school in two separate buildings on a scenic campus on the southern edge of the Village of Cooperstown. Top-ranked academics; lively arts and cultural programming; and a highly successful interscholastic athletics program are part of a comprehensive, community-backed educational system that educates 800 students in grades K-12, as of March 25, 2019.
Mission
The Cooperstown Central School District is a collaborative partnership of all home, school, and community stakeholders founded on trust. The District will provide a caring environment in which important and meaningful learning opportunities motivate our students to aspire to excellence. Active curiosity, compassion, and positivity are critical elements of effective teaching and learning. Our unified mindset is one that promotes the ideals of ownership and continuous improvement.
Vision
The District will be a regional and national model school district for educational excellence for all students in a rural community.
Come Visit Our Schools
The Cooperstown Central School District campus is on the southern edge of the historic Village of Cooperstown in the Central-Leatherstocking Region of Upstate New York. The entrance to the Elementary School parking lot is accessible from Walnut Street, and a pedestrian path links that portion of the campus to the Junior-Senior High School. The entrance to the Junior-Senior High School parking lot is on Linden Avenue, which is accessible from Walnut Street to the North and Chestnut Street/State Route 28 to the west.
Cooperstown is about a ninety-minute drive from Albany and Binghamton and about an hour's drive from Utica.