Mary E. Dardess Elementary School

If you are attending this evening's high school winter concert, please take a few moments to enjoy our district art show. We are excited to showcase grades k-12 works of art to co...

Students put in weeks of research and hard work to build miniature Iroquois longhouses, and presented their projects to other students and staff during the Longhouse Gallery Walk...

MED students arrived at school November 28 to a surprise house dance party first thing in the morning! Students got into their house colors and headed to one of two quick dance p...

Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts 3-5 class hosted a Friendsgiving Feast for Mr. Botsford's Language Concepts K-2 class on November 17! The students used their profits from their sc...

New at MED this year, the PTA organized a meaningful school-wide Veterans Day assembly to honor our Veterans and instill in students an understanding of the importance of this hol...

Please welcome Stacey Muscato to Mary E. Dardess Elementary School. Ms. Muscato is our new assistant principal and comes to Chatham from the Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle Schoo...

Check out the Veterans Day display at MED, courtesy of the MED PTA! The Chatham American Legion post was kind enough to lend the PTA some wonderful memorabilia to help honor our l...

Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts 3-5 class has reopened their Panther Pantry store, this year with improvements! Not only do the students sell candy and sodas to staff members ever...

Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts 3-5 Class carved their Halloween pumpkins! Each student scraped, designed and helped carve the spooky faces! A big thank you to Wally Engel from th...

Here are a few photos from MED's Halloween parade! Our elementary students and staff showed off their costumes by marching around the track the morning of October 28. Eighth grad...

Volunteer firefighters from communities across the Chatham Central School District visited MED to talk to our students about fire safety and what to do if there is ever a fire eme...

The bus garage's Springer picked these pumpkins out for Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts class and delivered them to MED on October 4!

The Chatham Central School District has appointed John Roloson as the temporary dean of students at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School. His responsibilities include building suppor...

New this school year, the MED PTA organized a BooHoo Yahoo Breakfast for the start of the school year. This event allowed our pre-k and kindergarten parents a chance to have a pre...

Every August, Chatham Central School District hosts a two-day orientation to familiarize our newest faculty members with our schools, programs, procedures, and culture. This year,...

The PTA is comprised of parents, teachers, family members, and the community with the common goal of supporting our students. They sponsor many events and activities during the sc...

Pictured here, our superintendent, Sal DeAngelo, scoops ice cream for students in MED's Extended School Year to celebrate the last days of their summer program. Dr. DeAngelo also ...

Mary E. Dardess Elementary School welcomes you to the 2022-23 school year! School supply lists for each grade are available below. Pre-K Supply List First Grade Supply List...

June 24 was our last day of school! A Chatham tradition, the staff at MED were out in front to wave goodbye to the students as our buses brought them home for the last time this s...

Here are some photos from Field Day 2022, which took place June 22 at MED! Our students enjoyed lots of outdoor fun and games. 8th Grade National Junior Honor Society students ret...