Walden Elementary School

Infobox School
name = Walden Elementary School

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caption = School front in 2007
location =
streetaddress = 75 Orchard Street
region =
city = Walden
state = NY
zipcode = 12586
country = USA
coordinates = coor dms|41|33|34|N|74|11|27|W
schoolnumber =
schoolboard = Valley Central School District
principal = Veronica Casillo
staff = 47PDFlink| [https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2006/AOR-2006-441301060003.pdf New York State School Report Card 2005-06, Accountability and Overview Report for Walden Elementary School] |509 KiB ]
avg_class_size =
ratio = 12
schooltype = Elementary
fundingtype = Public
grades = K-5
language = English
campus type = Suburban
opened = 1926
students = 566
gradeK = 101
grade1 = 97
grade2 = 86
grade3 = 100
grade4 = 88
grade5 = 94
communities = Walden
Town of Montgomery (portion)
homepage = [http://www.vcsd.k12.ny.us/waldenes/site/default.asp?5712Nav=%7C&NodeID=65 Walden Elementary School]
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bgcolor_label = 9bddff

Walden Elementary School educates children from kindergarten through fifth grade in the village of the same name, and adjacent areas of the surrounding Town of Montgomery, in Orange County, New York, United States. It is part of the Valley Central School District, with students going on to Valley Central Middle School.

The building itself was opened in 1926 as the single school building for what was then the Walden School District, educating students of all grade levels from the village, a purpose still evident from the "Walden Grade-High School" entablature on the pediment above the four Corinthian order columns at the main entrance. When Valley Central was created from the merger of Walden and two neighboring districts in the late 1950s, it became just one of three (now five) elementary schools in the district.

The school was at the center of a small controversy in 2007. On November 15, an employee at the school received a bomb threat in email. School officials locked down the building, letting no one save police enter and confining students to their rooms until an hour after their normal dismissal time.Cite news|last=James|first=Alexa|title=Lockdown over, kids being released from elementary school|url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/NEWS/711150350|publisher="Times-Herald Record"|date=November 15, 2007|accessdate=2008-01-12] Parents who had objected to the school's decision, and its failure to notify them, kept a quarter of the students home the next day as a protest. School district officials defended their actions as required by the situation.cite news|last=James|first=Alexa|title=Walden school defends handling of bomb threat|url=http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071117/NEWS/711170332|publisher="Times-Herald Record"|date=November 17, 2007|accessdate=2008-01-12]

References

External links

* [http://www.vcsd.k12.ny.us/waldenes/site/default.asp?5712Nav=%7C&NodeID=65 School website]