Taconic Hills Central School District

Taconic Hills School District
Address
73 County Route 11A Craryville, New York 12521
Information
Superintendent	Dr. Neil Howard
Principal	James Buhrmaster - Junior/Senior High
Principal	John Gulisane - Elementary School
Athletics conference	Patroon
Mascot	Titans
Website	Official website

The Taconic Hills Central School District is a rural school district in the upstate town of Craryville, New York, United States with about 1600 students. It serves all or part of the communities of Copake, Hillsdale, Philmont, Ancram, Austerlitz, Claverack, Gallatin, Ghent, Livingston, Northeast and Taghkanic in the southeastern part of Columbia County, New York, United States. The district covers nearly 250 square miles

The original formal public schools of Columbia County were one room school houses. Many of them were established under the 1812 Common School Act. However, in the 1920s politicians identifying with the Progressive Movement began scrutinizing the one-room school house educational system. These politicians advocated a change to larger, more centralized schools, which they felt would provide more equal educational opportunities for all. When in 1931 the Roeliff Jansen Central School District formed it was made up of twenty-nine smaller districts. It became the largest school district up to that time. In 1946, the Ockawamick Central School District was created from fifteen of these small, rural school districts. Taconic Hills Central School District was formed in 1969 after the unification of the Roeliff Jansen and Ockawamick School Districts, two smaller districts. The School was located in Hillsdale.

In 1988 The Taconic Hills Football team won the New York State Class C Championship with a record of 11-0.

In 1999, faculty, administrators and students moved into a new state of the art, centralized K-12 school building in Craryville.

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