Amesbury Public Schools At A Glance

Superintendent of Schools	Michele Robinson, Ed.D.
Business Director	Michael Bergeron
Director of Curriculum	Telena Imel
Director of Student Services and Special Education	Kathleen Glennon
Secondary Special Education Coordinator	Jane Finger
Elementary Special Education Coordinator	Jonathan Libby
Facilities Director / Transportation Coordinator	Brad Ford
Attendance Officer	David Muse
Cable TV / AV Coordinator	Russ Munroe
Director of Dining Services	Kevin Kish
Principal of Amesbury High School Amesbury High School Amesbury High School is a coeducational preparatory school in the city of Amesbury, Massachusetts, drawing students from Amesbury, South Hampton, New Hampshire, and other parts of the Merrimack River Valley region....	Roy Hamond
Principal of Amesbury Middle School Amesbury Middle School Amesbury Middle School has evolved much over the more than 85 years it has been in existence, serving students from the town of Amesbury, Massachusetts.- School snapshot :Amesbury Middle School220 Main StreetAmesbury, MA 01913Phone: 388-0515...	Michael F. Curry
Principal of Amesbury Elementary School	Walter Helliesen
Principal of Charles C. Cashman Elementary School	M. Louise Charette
Director of the Amesbury Academy	Donna J. Georges
School types	Public
Grade levels	pK-12
Number of Schools	4
Student Population	2,613
Faculty	189
School choice School choice School choice is a term used to describe a wide array of programs aimed at giving families the opportunity to choose the school their children will attend. As a matter of form, school choice does not give preference to one form of schooling or another, rather manifests itself whenever a student...	yes

Amesbury Public Schools has, for over 100 years, served students from the town of Amesbury

Amesbury, Massachusetts

Amesbury is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. Though it officially became a city in 1996, its formal name remains "The Town of Amesbury." In 1890, 9798 people lived in Amesbury; in 1900, 9473; in 1910, 9894; in 1920, 10,036; and in 1940, 10,862. The population was 16,283 at...

, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

. Currently the district offers pK-12 education.

District Snapshot

Amesbury Public Schools

10 Congress Street

Amesbury, MA 01913

Website: Amesbury Public Schools

History

The Amesbury Public Schools, which comprises the Amesbury High School

Amesbury High School

Amesbury High School is a coeducational preparatory school in the city of Amesbury, Massachusetts, drawing students from Amesbury, South Hampton, New Hampshire, and other parts of the Merrimack River Valley region....

, Amesbury Middle School

Amesbury Middle School

Amesbury Middle School has evolved much over the more than 85 years it has been in existence, serving students from the town of Amesbury, Massachusetts.- School snapshot :Amesbury Middle School220 Main StreetAmesbury, MA 01913Phone: 388-0515...

, Amesbury Elementary School and Charles C. Cashman Elementary School as well as the Academy of Strategic Learning, a Horace Mann Charter School, has served Amesbury, and, over the course of its history, many other communities educational needs. Amesbury students also have the option of receiving a vocational education at the Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School in Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill, Massachusetts

Haverhill is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 60,879 at the 2010 census.Located on the Merrimack River, it began as a farming community that would evolve into an important industrial center, beginning with sawmills and gristmills run by water power. In the...

. With the recent renovation projects at the middle school and the Cashman School, as well as the current high school renovation project and anticipated work at the elementary school in the near future, Amesbury has some of the newest school buildings in the area.

Trivia

• Amesbury's longest serving superintendent
  Superintendent (education)
  In education in the United States, a superintendent is an individual who has executive oversight and administration rights, usually within an educational entity or organization....
  
  , Fred C. English, served a total of 25 years and one month, from 1934 to 1960.
• Since the creation of the position in 1902, Amesbury has had 19 superintendents of schools.
• There have been two superintendents who have served longer than 10 years, Fred English, and Stephen J. Gerber, Ed.D., who served 1985 to 2004.
• David R. Gaul, superintendent for just 11 months, served the shortest term.
• In the early 1960s, the idea of a regional school district with Salisbury, Massachusetts
  Salisbury, Massachusetts
  Salisbury is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 7,827 at the 2000 census. The community is a popular summer resort beach town situated on the Atlantic Ocean north of Boston on the New Hampshire border....
  
   gained, and then lost, support.
• District offices, formerly housed in the Ordway Building on School Street, are currently housed in the former Horace Mann Primary School, built in 1908.
• Prior to the 1960s, Amesbury's high school was attended by the nearby towns of Seabrook, New Hampshire
  Seabrook, New Hampshire
  Seabrook is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 8,693 at the 2010 census. Located at the southern end of the coast of New Hampshire on the border with Massachusetts, Seabrook is noted as the location of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, the third-most...
  
   and South Hampton, New Hampshire
  South Hampton, New Hampshire
  South Hampton is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 814 at the 2010 census. South Hampton is home to Cowden State Forest and Powwow River State Forest.- History :...
  
  among others. Only South Hampton continues this tradition.
• All schools currently in use were built between 1965 and 1975.