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Dana L. Lyon elementary students (4th-6th grades) programs include remediation, gifted, talented & strong instructional. "Hands On" science discovery opportunities along with conventional textbook learning is administered. Assertive discipline provides a consistent and positive approach to the educational atmosphere to which students are exposed. Haverling Junior and Senior High School students (7th-12th grades) are encouraged to follow an academic program that will challenge and expand their interests & goals. Academic All Stars & collegiate competitions in chemistry, physics, math & biology find Haverling students among the top finalists. Seniors may earn 12-15 college credits in our ACE program with Corning Community College. It is interesting to know how this area was formed. If you look around at the topography of the area, you will notice the hills are closely matched in height and the land kind of dips and rolls with jagged ravines, some wide valleys, rolling hills, depressions, and knolls. Most recently, the continental glaciers that flowed south from Labrador and covered this area during the Pleistocene epoch - over 1.5 million years ago caused this. The accumulation of snow and ice and the resulting pressure caused the ice to flow. If the melt rate increased, the glacier remained constant or retreated. If the melt rate decreased the glacier advanced - sometimes more than a foot a day. It is through these movements, the depositing of rock debris and the excavation of the land beneath by the ice that reshaped the river valleys - leaving it much as we see it today. When the glacier stood still for a period of time, a blockage of the valleys occurred by material that was deposited by the glacier. The Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital on Rte. 54 (the Bath/Hammondsport Road) sits atop one of these so-called mounds that is known locally as Hospital Hill. In other instances huge glacial ice blocks remained constant and debris built up around them - then when the ice melted, it left large depressions in the land. Streams of melting water flowing off the glacier and depositing a small delta formed some mounds. The land around the Golf Course at the Bath Country Club on May Street, Bath, is a good example of this as noted by the many knolls, depressions, and swampy areas that comprise the 18-hole golf course. Bath stands at an elevation of 1,090 feet above sea level and Mossy Bank Park on Sharps Hill overlooking the village rises to 1,600 feet. The Seneca Indians called the Conhocton River Ga-ha-to, which means, "log in the water." The river is fed by many creeks and streams as it wends its way through the Cohocton Valley to eventually join with the Tioga River at Painted Post to form the Chemung River through Elmira, which combines with the Susquehanna River and eventually flows into the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and finally into the Atlantic Ocean. |
Bath School district is serviced by 3 schools. Vernon E. Wightman-students K-3rd grades-one story on landscaped acreage provides playgrounds & ball fields. The school features a new library, academic programs ranging from math, dual based reading & a combination science kit-text book program to individualized Language Arts. Reading, writing, & math rate the top 90% in state & national testing.
