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About HFM BOCES

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HFM BOCES provides more than $40.8 million in shared educational services to the 15 school districts in Fulton, Montgomery and Hamilton Counties.

  • We transform lives!More than 500 local high school students receive career and technical training at HFM BOCES.
  • More than 100 students who have experienced difficulties in their home high school programs will be educated through HFM BOCES’ Adirondack Academy in 2016-17.
  • HFM BOCES supports an eight-site Distance Learning network, allowing students to share advanced classes with other learners throughout the Capital Region.
  • HFM BOCES is creating multi-school educational partnerships that allow students to enroll in career-centered academic programs at participating schools.
  • Nearly 400 adult learners receive BOCES literacy and GED instruction.
  • The Special Education division, which comprises nearly half of the HFM BOCES organization, employs a staff of more than 200 people – and educates 99 percent of disabled children in our region in the same site as their non-disabled peers.
  • HFM PTECH offers students 4-6 year pathways in non-traditional, project based classrooms, culminating in a Regents high school diploma AND an associate’s degree from an area college – all at no cost to students or their family.

How our organization is structured

BOCES stands for Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which operate as an extension of local school districts and the New York State Education Department. BOCES are educational institutions created by the New York Legislature in 1948 to help public schools through shared educational programs and services. New York State is divided into 37 BOCES regions. Although each BOCES is tailored to meet specific local needs, all of them are based on cooperation, coordination, interdependence and shared decision-making.

Where we are located

Aerial view of HFM BOCESHFM BOCES is headquartered in Johnstown, NY, located in central Fulton County in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains. We are about 45 minutes west of Albany, 35 minutes southwest of Saratoga, and about an hour east of Utica.

All of our facilities are housed in our new campus adjacent  to Fulton-Montgomery Community College on Route 67 in the Town of Johnstown. All of our special education students are taught in classrooms located throughout our component school districts. Most of our special education students are mainstreamed with their regular education peers, with designated special education classrooms established in Johnstown, Gloversville and Mayfield.

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