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               2.6 Community Services
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               Although Newcomb is sparsely populated, it benefits from a forward thinking school system.
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               the Town, it also serves as a community center.  As of 2009, there are 82 students, including
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               five  (10)  international  students,  enrolled  at  the  school  and  there  are  a  total  of  fifteen  (15)
               teachers. As such, the teacher to student ratio is one (1) to five (5), whereas New York State’s
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               has nine (9) other professional staff, including assistant teachers, a special
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               education teacher, a part‐time guidance counselor, a part‐time counselor, a
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               part‐time  speech  teacher,  and  a  physician  assistant.  The  school  also  has
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               twelve  (12)  full  and  part‐time  administrative  and  operational  employees.
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               was $3.1 million.  Total expenditures for the same time were approximately
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               $4.2 million. The difference is made‐up mainly by State aid payments. This    N Ne ew wc co om mb b   C C C Ce en nt tr ra al l
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               amounted to approximately $57, 500 in expenditures per student.  The New        S Sc ch ho oo ol l   H Hu us s s sk ki ie es s
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               students, Newcomb Central School is seeking to expand through several initiatives including its
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               international student program and the housing of non‐residential students.  Over the past few
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               France, South Korea, Switzerland, Sweden, Brazil, Bangladesh, Japan, and Australia. Newcomb
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               Central  School’s  programs  have  been  recognized  on  television,  radio,  and  the  newspaper.
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               Currently Newcomb is actively pursuing a change in the Federal Immigration law to allow F‐1
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               tuition  paying  international  students  to  attend  a  public  school  for  their  entire  high  school
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               experience. If such changes were to occur, the school would seek to develop dormitory type
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               housing in order to ssupport the significant expansion of the international program.
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               Thanks to a partnership with North Country Community College, Newcomb Central School has a
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               program that allowing most students to graduate with 30‐40 college credits. The high school
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               teachers are also adjjunct professors at North Country. Newcomb Central School is thus able to
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               meet the requiremeents of both high school and college. This unique program gives students a
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               real advantage when they leave for college. There are many other distinctions that separating
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               Newcomb  Central  School  from  most  other  schools  including  foreign  language  in  PK‐12,
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               SmartBoards in all classrooms, a physician assistant allowing diagnosis and treatment, distant
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               learning lab connectting classrooms around the world, six teachers Nationally Certified or are in
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