Amherst Central High School

I grew up here, like literally like did the whole across the street thing.

Went to Amherst Middle, Amherst High School, went to Damon when, back when it was college, um, down the street to UB for graduate degree, and then I went to Atlanta, and I was in Atlanta for a really, really long time.

Um, and there I studied, um...

Oh, I worked in like social services, so I worked with a lot of different people in different, um, demographics, always with something like marketing or, um, development, um, volunteer work, community engagement.

Williamsville South High School is Williamsville, of course, is number five.

Number six, Amherst Central High School.

Number seven, Frederick Law Olmsted, and of course from Buffalo.

Number eight, East Aurora High School in East Aurora.

The allegations dating to the mid-1960s are at the center of three lawsuits that could leave the Amherst Central School District facing substantial additional costs.

The district and its insurers already have settled six other abuse lawsuits for more than $2 million, five involving former Amherst High School assistant principal Jack Koch, and one involving former elementary school teacher Trent Harzycki.

The district is paying about $1.5 million out of pocket, though some settlements obtained by the Buffalo News through a Freedom of Information Law request do not disclose the amount that was covered by insurance.

How much more the district may have to pay could hinge on a motion asking Erie County State Supreme Court Justice Deborah Chimes to dismiss the three cases involving Morse.

A Western New York native, Schofield was born in North Tonawanda and moved to Amherst in seventh grade.

He graduated from Amherst High School in 1986.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Grove City College in Pennsylvania, followed by a master's degree from Buffalo State University and a certificate of advanced study from Brockport.

Schofield's first job in education was with Catarauga's Allegheny BOCES, where he taught seventh and eighth grade math and social studies and assisted with physical education.