Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

The Mary E. Dardess Elementary School, Chatham, New York, announces the registration dates for the 2026-2027 prekindergarten class. Registration for Chatham Central School Dist...

Mary E. Dardess Elementary School announces the registration dates for our 2026-2027 kindergarten class. Registration for the Class of 2039 is now open! Chatham’s Digital Ki...

January 2026 The Chatham Central School District encourages all students in grades 3-8 to participate in the New York State Testing Program. We know that in recent years, there ...

Chatham's youngest musicians debuted their talents at MED's 4th Grade Informance on January 16. Families filled the cafetorium to learn about what our orchestra, band and chorus s...

5th grade science students are learning about the properties of matter. They practiced using four of their five senses to identify the properties of sugar, salt, cornstarch, bakin...

December 19 was MED's third Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students' collective achievement in class. We gave out our monthly awards...

The pesky elves apparently snuck into the PTO closet overnight and took out all of their holiday blow ups! When students arrived the hallways were filled with them. What does th...

The seventh grade headed over to MED December 18 to bring some holiday cheer to third grade. The students read, played games, made a craft together, and made a lot of great connec...

This morning, Mrs Reno found a hand-scrawled note on her desk from the pesky elves. The elves wanted all the students to have hot chocolate and get to watch a movie in school toda...

Mrs. Reichardt introduced the NYSEG energy program to her 5th grade science students this week. They all took home a day pack filled with several energy saving items to help thei...

Oh no! It looks like those pesky elves have returned to MED. Students arrived to school Monday to find classrooms messed up and things moved around. Tuesday found the hallways str...

A kindergarten tradition at MED! Students and their family members enjoyed making gingerbread houses together on December 15!

Run, run, run as fast as you can… you can’t catch our growing readers in PreK! After exploring many versions of The Gingerbread Man , Miss Gomm and Miss Mason's classes used th...

As part of the third grade's unit on the human body, students learned how to use a microscope by scraping the inside of their cheeks and examining their cheek cells under the micr...

The Tuesday before the Thanksgiving break was a surprise HOUSE activity day at MED!

Thanksgiving came early to the halls of MED when our kindergarten classes staged their very own, super-fun Macy's Day Parade! After learning all about those gigantic, awesome ball...

As part of a community service project sponsored by the Chatham American Legion Auxiliary, MED, CMS, And CHS collected hundreds of items for military care packages that will be se...

November 20 was MED's second Effective School Assembly of the school year, during which we celebrated our students' collective achievement in class. November's theme at MED was "G...

5th Grade Science classes celebrated Thanksgiving early by completing a fun STEM activity! They read the book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet. Then, the kids followed c...

Representatives from Herrington’s and Questar III visited MED to give our fourth graders a hands-on woodworking experience. With a few tools, some guidance, and a little elbow gre...