Chester Academy is a public secondary school located in Chester, New York, USA. Their mascot is the Hambletonian, after Hambletonian 10, a famed harness racing horse that is an ancestor of nearly every Standardbred horse in the United States. Chester Academy is a recently built school, with construction starting in 2002. Students moved into the school from Chester Junior/Senior High School, located about 0.741 miles away, in 2004.
There are 3 floors, and the school offers a variety of sports at different levels: American football, soccer, baseball, cheerleading, and basketball at varsity and junior varsity, as well as a varsity track and cross country team.
The name of the school changed from Chester Jr/Sr Highschool to Chester Academy in May 2004 when students and faculty were moved from the original Maple Avenue school building to the new building on Hambletonian Avenue. Chester Jr/Sr Highschool housed students grades 7-12, and was changed to accommodate students grades 6-12 in the Chester Academy. The school building is separated into a Jr Highschool wing and a Highschool wing. Chester Academy is also home to a Boces Special Education wing.
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“The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.”
—bell hooks (b. c. 1955)