November 7, 2022
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...
November 4, 2022
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...
November 1, 2022
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...
October 28, 2022
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...
October 14, 2022
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...
October 4, 2022
The bus garage's Springer picked these pumpkins out for Mrs. Winter's Language Concepts class and delivered them to MED on October 4!
September 22, 2022
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...
September 16, 2022
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...
September 2, 2022
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,...
September 1, 2022
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...
August 16, 2022
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 ...
July 19, 2022
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, 2022
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...
June 23, 2022
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...
June 21, 2022
The fifth grade celebrated their moving on to Chatham Middle School with a D.A.R.E. Graduation and Moving Up Ceremony for family and friends, held June 17 in the MED gym.
The ...
June 21, 2022
The kindergarten students have been counting down to the end of their school year with an ABC Countdown. They have enjoyed a wide range of activities like blowing bubbles for the ...
June 17, 2022
June 16 was the first day of our transition program at CMS for our incoming 5th graders. They met their new teachers and counselors, learned about clubs, special events, routines ...
June 17, 2022
As part of their forces and interactions unit, the third grade at Mary E. Dardess Elementary School conducted an experiment to see how many rubber bands a watermelon could withsta...
June 16, 2022
Chatham High School's band, chorus, and orchestra put on an in-house concert for MED students the morning of June 14. Students in grades three, four, and five headed over to the C...
June 10, 2022
On June 10, the Class of 2022 returned to their "roots" at CCSD with a walk through in their caps and gowns at MED Elementary School, where their journey began nearly 13 years ago...