The online version of a story in Thursday’s Times Union about water testing results in Capital Region schools included results from the City School District of Albany. We would like to clarify that the published results for our school district are from the 2020-21 school year, the last time our district was required to conduct this testing in alignment with New York State Health Department regulations.
In compliance with state Health Department regulations, the district plans to conduct water testing again in the spring of this year. We will communicate those results with our entire school community after testing is completed.
In 2020-21, 10 district buildings, including the Harriet Gibbons Student Services Center, had one or more outlet that exceeded the state’s limit for lead of 15 parts per billion (ppb). All other district buildings had no results above that limit.
The district addressed all buildings that had tests above the state’s limit at that time. You can follow the links below to access the 2020-21 results for all district buildings:
- Academy Park
- 0 results over 15 ppb; 9 outlets tested
- Albany High School
- 20 results over 15 ppb; 91 outlets tested
- Abrookin Career and Technical Center
- 2 results over 15 ppb; 31 outlets tested
- Albany School of Humanities (ASH)
- 0 results over 15 ppb; 124 outlets tested
- Arbor Hill Elementary School
- 1 result over 15 ppb; 57 outlets tested
- Delaware Community School
- 0 results over 15 ppb; 142 outlets tested
- Eagle Point Elementary School
- 0 results over 15 ppb; 128 outlets tested
- Edmund J. O'Neal Middle School of Excellence (now Albany International Academy)
- 2 results above 15 ppb; 41 outlets tested
- Giffen Memorial Elementary School
- 11 results over 15 ppb; 115 outlets tested
- Harriet Gibbons Student Services Center
- 1 outlet over 15 ppb; 16 outlets tested
- Montessori Magnet School
- 0 outlets over 15 ppb; 156 outlets tested
- New Scotland Elementary School
- 0 outlets over 15 ppb; 51 outlets tested
- North Albany Academy (now North Albany Middle School)
- 1 outlet over 15 ppb; 42 outlets tested
- Philip Schuyler Achievement Academy (now Roots Academy at West Hill)
- 0 outlets over 15 ppb; 137 outlets tested
- Pine Hills Elementary School
- 0 outlets over 15 ppb; 48 outlets tested
- Sheridan Preparatory Academy
- 0 outlets over 15 ppb; 149 outlets tested
- Stephen and Harriet Myers Middle School
- 21 outlets over 15 ppb; 146 outlets tested
- Thomas O'Brien Academy of Science and Technology (TOAST)
- 6 outlets over 15 ppb; 102 outlets tested
- Tony Clement Center for Education
- 4 outlets over 15 ppb; 49 outlets tested
- William S. Hackett Middle School
- 5 outlets over 15 ppb; 79 outlets tested
