Heading into the new school year, the school administration, along with the guidance department, decided to make changes for the betterment of student-counselor relations, according to high school principal Mr. Lou DeLauro. 

From now on, students will have the same guidance counselor throughout their entire high school career, rather than changing counselors between 10th and 11th grade. 

Mr. Matthew Adelfio moved from DVES to the high school guidance department to one of the new positions. He requested the move because it was easier for his coaching schedule, and he believes it is a great opportunity to further his career while helping the community. 

Mr. Adelfio will be in charge of students with the last names between Me-R, Mrs. Crystal Ross will work with last names A-C, Mrs. Jessica Favorito has D-G, Ms. Molly Blaut was given H-Mc, Mrs. Danielle Moran, who is filling in for Mrs. Samantha Navitsky during the ‘24-‘25 school year, will work with students with last names S-Z and Ms. Jennifer Cosentino still works with the Career and Technical Education students. 

With the change, comes some adjustments for the guidance counselors. With the extra workload of having more students than previous years comes a learning curve for many of the counselors. Before this year, they would typically work with either upperclassmen or underclassmen but not both. Adjusting to the different needs of students depending on their grade will take practice but could result in a better relationship between the students and their counselors.

“It’s hard to tell yet because we’re still early in the process of all of these changes,” Mrs. Ross said. “But hopefully it will be a good thing to get to know the students for a longer period of time.”