Our Mission
The Monadnock Regional School District is a combined community of learners, education professionals & support staff, volunteers, businesses & civic organizations, tax-payers, and families who represent the towns of Fitzwilliam, Gilsum, Richmond, Roxbury, Swanzey and Troy. We embrace our shared responsibility to guide students to become active citizens who are both empowered and inspired to contribute to the future of their community. Therefore, we collaborate not just to teach, but also to engage and educate every student in our district in an environment that is challenging, caring, and safe, while fostering life-long learning.
In the past 4 years we have renovated the permanent classrooms at Mt. Caesar, and replaced the portable classrooms with modern, permanent classrooms. This work is an example of the caliber/quality of work we also need to do in our Gilsum, Troy, and Fitzwilliam schools.
As the MRSD School Board has explored various options, the most consistent response from our voters has been the desire to keep a school open in each town (no consolidation across town lines, a.k.a. “re-districting”). Each community takes a lot of pride in their local school!
Unfortunately, our ‘pay as you go’ approach of raising ~$1 million per year for construction projects forces us to choose 1-2 projects per year, and forces us to choose one town’s school over another. The costs of NOT performing all of the significant projects leads to an increasing backlog, and rising building costs.
Currently there is a backlog of more than 50 projects estimated at a cost of $35 million across all of our elementary schools, including things like:
- Safe/secure building entry ways
- ADA compliance / handicap access
- Energy efficient lighting, windows, and insulation
- Updated air circulation, heating and cooling systems
- Wider, safer parking areas for both cars and buses
- Renovated classrooms for improved learning environments and support for modern technologies
- Basic systems like modern septic and electrical
- Updated multipurpose room for meals, physical education, and fine arts performances