ECO Summary
Marcus Whitman Central School ECO Program Summary 2024-2025; Our Twenty-eighth Year!
- ECO will be celebrating its 28th year in 2024-2025 and has served over 759 students!
- ECO provides a comprehensive, rigorous, relevant, academic curriculum that is environmentally focused and experientially based.
- ECO's curriculum themes include outdoor recreation, watershed study, field and forest/flora and fauna, environmental issues, business enterprise, service, and community.
- ECO participants are selected by an applicant lottery.
- ECO has a diverse student population that promotes social interaction and personal growth for students.
- ECO offers students a positive learning and social environment and successfully prepares them for later grades.
- The ECO opportunity encourages positive home-school relationships.
- Opportunities for family participation are provided through “whole-school” evening meetings throughout the year, parent-student-teacher conferences, and parental participation in other activities if desired.
- ECO’s small, team-based, home classroom-based, instructional setting encourages student growth through commitment by teachers that emphasizes “engagement and responsibility.”
- ECO provides parents and students the opportunity to have an active choice in the child’s public school education.
- ECO is doing what the charter school movement promises: 1) provides school choice; 2) provides an alternative instructional model; 3) encourages professional challenge and accountability.
For more information, please contact:
Malcolm MacKenzie or Samantha Wolf
MWCS ECO Program
Marcus Whitman Middle School
4100 Baldwin Rd.
Rushville, NY 14544
585-554-6442 mmackenzie@mwcsd.org swolf@mwcsd.org
May 2024