Giffen Memorial Elementary School News

Adults look over the shoulders of scholars at their project

Giffen Memorial Elementary School students shared a year’s worth of smarts with a...

A student poses with her painting

The creativity of our youngest students was on full display Wednesday evening! An op...

Nicole Newman

The City School District of Albany has appointed veteran district teacher and administr...

Albany High volleyball student-athlete

All are invited to join us Monday evening for a virtual presentation about the City Sch...

City School District of Albany logo

The City School District of Albany is planning for all schools and offices to be closed...

Adult and student put new plant in garden

Last Saturday, Giffen Memorial Elementary School celebrated Earth Day 2024 a little ear...

Student playing the trumpet

All City Band 2024

March 28, 2024

Visit our Facebook page to take a look at this year’s All City Band Concert, feat...

Early dismissal April 8 graphic

The City School District of Albany will have an early dismissal for all students on Mon...

High school student playing the violin

All-City Strings 2024

March 21, 2024

Visit our Facebook page to take a look at this year’s All-City Strings Concert, f...

Students pose for pictures behind superhero photo cutouts

They’re Giffen Gators, and they’re superheroes when it comes to building fu...

Students smiling while performing chorus songs

All-City Chorus 2024

March 14, 2024

Visit our Facebook page to take a look at this year’s All-City Chorus Concert, fe...

Standing from L-R: Autumn King, Giffen Memorial Elementary School fourth-grader; Michael Davis and Ma'Shiya Cain, Giffen third-graders; Iliyah Munoz, Albany School of Humanities fifth-grader; and Mina Mirzaie, Arbor Hill Elementary School fourth-grader.

A team of students from three district elementary schools took first place in their div...

A poster advertising the 15th annual art exhibit at Empire State Plaza.

The 15th annual K-8 Art Exhibition at Empire State Plaza runs March 4-22 with a special...

Grade 3 students at Giffen, and Superintendent Hochreiter, learn about a new air monitoring program from University at Albany researchers.

Albany, the Capital Region and all of New York will benefit from cleaner air thank...

Student waits onstage to take center stage

Giffen Memorial Elementary School celebrated Black History Month on Friday with song, p...

Black History Month logo

We are excited to celebrate Black History Month! The theme of this year’s obse...