- Letchworth Central School
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- Interesting Facts
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Interesting Facts:
- Letchworth Central School was named for William Pryor Letchworth, not Letchworth State Park.
- Other names considered for Letchworth were Wiscoy Valley Central, Memorial Central, Mary Jemison Central, Gainesville Central, Genesee Valley Central, Forward Central, and Wyoming Valley Central.
- The beautiful mosaic mural located on the font of the building in the new classroom wing symbolizes David Starr Jordan's life. Mr. Jordan, of Gainesville, was a world renowned naturalist who became president of Stanford University in California.
- H.J. Harrison was the first superintendent of Letchworth, but he did not live to see the building completed.
- The original plans for LCS included a high school, bowling alleys, an auditorium, and elementary rooms.
- In order to obtain the vote to centralize, a gentleman's agreement guaranteed each village a board seat and its own elementary building. However, the elementary is now consolidated into the K-12 Building.
- LCS campus is located "in the middle of nowhere" so that no village would have special advantages.
- Mr. Rogers is only the sixth principal of the high school.
- A 5-acre solar-array was completed in the summer of 2017, producing power for the school district and surrounding area.