Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District
| Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District | |
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| 45 Ingham Road, Briarcliff Manor, New York, 10510 | |
| Coordinates | 41°08′53″N 73°49′03″W / 41.1480°N 73.8174°WCoordinates: 41°08′53″N 73°49′03″W / 41.1480°N 73.8174°W |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Superintendent | Dr. James M. Kaishian |
| Asst. Superintendent(s) | Edgar MacIntosh, Linda Peters |
| Schools | Todd Elementary School Briarcliff Middle School Briarcliff High School |
| Budget | $50,335868 (2016-17) |
| District ID | 3605340 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 1,535 (2011–2012) |
| Teachers | 139.95 (on full-time equivalent basis, 2011–2012) |
| Staff | 247 (2011–2012) |
| Student-teacher ratio | 11.48 (2011–2012) |
| Other information | |
| Website | www |
| Composition (2015–16) | ||||||
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| White: | 76% | |||||
| Asian/Pacific Islander: | 13% | |||||
| Hispanic: | 7% | |||||
| Black: | 3% | |||||
| American Indian/Alaska Native: | 0% | |||||
| Multiracial: | 2% | |||||
| Source: The New York State Report Card, NYSED | ||||||
The Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District is the public school district of Briarcliff Manor, New York. The district is an independent public entity, and is governed by the district Board of Education, whose members are elected in non-partisan elections for staggered, three-year terms. The board selects a superintendent, who is the district's chief administrative official. The district's offices are located in Todd Elementary School.
The district has three schools,Todd Elementary School, Briarcliff Middle School and Briarcliff High School. It has about 1,535 students, and spends an average of $24,858 per pupil and has a student–teacher ratio of 11:1 (the national averages are $12,435 and 15.3:1 respectively). The district is a part of the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services. The Briarcliff Manor UFSD won first place for the small district category of the 2008 Digital School Districts Survey and currently provided 1 to 1 devices to all students in grades 4 through 12.
In 1865, a one-room schoolhouse was built on land donated by John Whitson on the south side of Pleasantville Road, between the Pocantico River and the New York & Putnam Railroad (now NY Route 9A/100). The building (Whitson's School, District No. 6) became the first schoolhouse in the area. George A. Todd, Jr. was the first teacher and superintendent of the school. In 1867, the school was moved to the White School, named thus due to its exterior paint.
Its replacement building, Briarcliff Public School, was built in 1898 on the site of the White School. The building failed to meet requirements set by New York's commissioner of education, and thus in 1910, it became the Briarcliff Community Center, a social organization established by the village. Around the same time, in 1908, $50,000 ($1.33 million in 2016) was voted for Briarcliff Manor to buy a plot by Law Memorial Park, and the school moved again, to the Spanish Renaissance-style Grade School building, which was built there the following year. Students would attend that school from kindergarten to ninth grade and have the option to then attend the nearby Ossining High School. In 1918, the Briarcliff school began educating students through high school; in 1928, a dedicated wing for high school students was built onto the Grade School building. The enlarged school accepted students from Croton, Hawthorne, North White Plains, Valhalla, and as far as Granite Springs.
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