East Ramapo Central School District
| East Ramapo Central School District |
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105 South Madison Avenue, Spring Valley, New York 10977 United States |
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| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | Pre-K to 12 |
| Established | March 5, 1952 |
| Superintendent | Deborah Wortham |
| Schools | 13 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 8,118 (2011-2010 school year) |
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| Website | District website |
East Ramapo Central School District is a school district in Ramapo, New York, United States. It is headquartered in the Senator Eugene Levy Dr. Jack R. Anderson Education Center.
The school district serves areas of eastern Town of Ramapo, and portions of the towns of Clarkstown and Haverstraw, including Chestnut Ridge, New Hempstead, New Square, Spring Valley which spans Ramapo and Clarkstown, and portions of Airmont and New City. The district also serves the hamlets of Hillcrest and Monsey, as well as the Village of Pomona which straddles the borders of Town of Ramapo and Town of Haverstraw.
On March 4, 1952, seven school districts merged together to form Ramapo Central School District No.2, due to centralization. On August 22, 1973, this district was renamed the East Ramapo Central School District.
The school district has seen major demographic changes since the late 1990s. In 1997, of the 18,000 children transported by the district, 10,500 were students of yeshiva private schools. Joseph Berger of The New York Times said in an article written during that year that this involved "a proportion of public school money to bus private school students that few American towns can match."
During that year 9,500 of the children within the district were private school students from the Village of New Square, Village of Kaser, and the community of Monsey. A 1997 The New York Times article stated that some East Ramapo school district parents said that the high proportion of private school parents to public school parents could threaten the district. Harvey Katz, an Orthodox Jew who served as a school board member, said that "Just because my children are not in the public schools doesn't mean I don't care about all the children. Children are our future, wherever they may be." The district was one of five districts in New York State where more students were enrolled in private school than in public school due to religious reasons.
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