Broadalbin-Perth Intermediate School is located at 1870 County Highway 107 Amsterdam, NY. Education is provided for grades 4 through 6 for school age children who live within the schools territory. This Intermediate School is apart of the Broadalbin-Perth Central School District which fulfills the mandates of the residents of the district by carrying out their desire for high standards of education consistent with their willingness and ability to support it through taxation.
The Intermediate School provides students with a greater level of academic challenge, but like its primary school counterpart, recognizes student learning differences and incorporates these concerns into program design and delivery.
Language Arts instruction continues to focus on the development of listening and speaking skills, reading and appreciation of fiction, poetry, prose, and wordplay, creative and composition writing, spelling, and handwriting. Our language arts program offers students an orderly, developmental approach to acquiring skills for practical and creative expression.
Elementary students attend Art, Music, Physical Education, and Computer classes. Instruction in these classes is offered by teachers certified as subject area specialists. Students who qualify as 'divergent thinkers' may benefit from participation in the "Exploring Student Potential" program which brings together curricular topics and creativity.
The Mathematics program continues with topics in arithmetic operations and relations. Students receive a balanced, integrated mathematics program that includes continual development of whole number concepts, whole number computation, mental math, problem-solving, patterns and functions, measurement, geometry, fractions, decimals, statistics, and probability.
