| Berea Elementary School | |
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| Front entrance of building | |
| Address | |
| 946 State Route 17K Montgomery, NY, 12549 USA |
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| Information | |
| School type | Public, Elementary |
| Opened | 1968 |
| School district | Valley Central |
| Principal | Hope Stuart |
| Asst. Principal | Catherine Tavormina |
| Staff | 38[1] |
| Grades | K-5 |
| Gender | Coed |
| Kindergarten | 69[1] |
| Grade 1 | 86[1] |
| Grade 2 | 62[1] |
| Grade 3 | 58[1] |
| Grade 4 | 67[1] |
| Grade 5 | 78[1] |
| Average class size | 21[1] |
| Language | English |
| Campus type | Rural |
| Communities served | Portions of towns of Crawford, Hamptonburgh, Montgomery, Newburgh and Wallkill, Villages of Maybrook, Montgomery and Walden |
| Website | Berea Elementary School |
Berea Elementary School is located on NY 17K just east of its junction with NY 208 in the Town of Montgomery, New York, United States. It is a public elementary school educating students in kindergarten through fifth grade in the Valley Central School District, which covers most of the town and all of its three villages (Maybrook, Montgomery and Walden), as well as portions of the neighboring towns of Crawford, Hamptonburgh, Newburgh and Wallkill.
It was built in the late 1960s as the district began to grow after its first decade of existence once the schools in the three villages had been combined into Valley Central in the 1950s. It was the first of two elementary schools the district built.
In 2007, after writing a note on a picture he drew of an astronaut expressing his desire to "blow up the school with all the teachers in it" filed a federal lawsuit alleging the punishment was excessive and unconstitutionally violated the boy's right to freedom of speech.[2] The case was dismissed in 2008.[3]