Okte Elementary
- We’re Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence this May 16 & 17, 2025! Save the date for our upcoming Shen Anniversary Celebration! Click here to learn more!
- Mrs. Sansone and Ms. Butera’s 4th graders learning about lacrosse from 2 Albany FireWolves lacrosse players this week.
- Okte students transformed themselves into circus performers. Students at Okte learned circus skills in their PE class. Fifth graders opted to specialize in platespinning, balancing, stilt walking, or other skills. The 5th graders then put on a show for their school community.
- Mrs. Shutts and Mrs. Leuzinger’s ISD classes had a great time exploring the Vischer Ferry Fire Department truck during their visit to Okte. Firefighters from Clifton Park, Halfmoon, Jonesville, Vischer Ferry, and West Crescent Volunteer Fire Companies came to Okte during National Fire Prevention Week and taught important lessons on fire prevention and safety!
- Congrats to Charlotte Kennedy, her story, “Dog” was picked by Tammy Robinson, Managing Editor of Skribbler’s Magazine to be read at 7th annual Albany Book Festival. Charlotte entered her story as part of a fourth-grade unit on poetry taught in the library during the 2023-2024 school year.
- Second graders at Okte received monarch butterfly larvae from Cornell Cooperative Extension. In this photo students are getting their first look at one of the teeny tiny caterpillars eating milkweed.
- Okte and Chango students visited Arongen to visit with “Bad Kitty” author and Illustrator, Nick Bruel. Thanks to Northshire Books and the Shen Librarians for setting up the special visit.
- Okte’s 4th grade played the Hudson River Trading Game. Pairs of students sailed a model sloop up and down the Hudson River game board. Historic Cherry Hill Museum in Albany provided all the learning materials and helped to guide the students through their learning journey.
Announcements:
We’re Celebrating 75 Years of Excellence this May 16 & 17, 2025! Save the date for our upcoming Shen Anniversary Celebration! Click here to learn more!
Three seats on Shenendehowa’s Board of Education are up for election on May 20, 2025– each carry a three-year term. The deadline for petitions is April 21 at 5pm (click to learn more).
In honor of Shenendehowa’s 75th Anniversary we are assembling an Alumni Choir to perform at the Celebration Events! If you are an alum of Shen and sang in any Choir, or are a current or retired Shen Music teacher, please consider signing up and joining us in celebration (click to learn more)!
NOTICE TO PARENTS OF STUDENTS ATTENDING NON-PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Parents of students living in the Shenendehowa Central School District seeking transportation for their children who will attend a non-public school next year must submit a written request by April 1 2025. (click to learn more!)
Welcome to Okte Elementary School
Located in the southern part of the district, Okte Elementary School is one of four off-campus schools. It opened in 1973.
Mission:
We envision a school in which staff, students and community:
- focus on what we expect all students to learn, examine how we will know if they have learned it and know how we will respond if students have/have not learned.
- create an environment that promotes and celebrates effective and on-going communication and respect.
- develop and maintain our capacity to function as a professional learning community with a common purpose and clear goals.
- encourage risk taking that promotes personal and academic growth.
- embrace 21st century, project-based learning.
- demonstrate a personal commitment to the academic success and general well-being of all students.
Start & Dismissal Times:
School starts at 9:05 a.m.
AM Kindergarten dismissed at 11:40 a.m.
PM Kindergarten starts at 12:40 p.m.
School is dismissed at 3:15 p.m.
Half day dismissal at 12:15 p.m.