Ramapo Central School District

Cherry Lane Elementary, in Airmont, NY, was awarded the National Blue Ribbon of Excellence award in 2013.

Ramapo Central School District is a school district headquartered in Hillburn, a village in the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Suffern; east of Orange County, New York; south of Viola and west of Montebello.

The Ramapo Central School District serves the villages of Airmont, Hillburn, Montebello, Sloatsburg, Suffern (including Viola), and a portion of Monsey, and its Middle School and High School are named for Suffern.

The 6 villages together have a combined population of 46,926 according to the 2000 census that takes up 20.9 square miles (54 km2) which makes the population density for the area the district serves about 2245.26 people per square mile.

Several of the schools within the district have the privilege of being designated High Performing Reward Schools by the New York State Education Department in August 2014. These schools include Cherry Lane Elementary, Montebello Elementary, Sloatsburg Elementary, and Suffern High School. Suffern High School was once again named a High Performing Reward School for the 2016-2017 academic year. In addition to being named a Reward School, Cherry Lane Elementary also received the title of being a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education in 2013.

In late 2016, the district began to explore the possibility of officially changing its name in order to avoid continuing confusion with the nearby East Ramapo Central School District.

It was announced in June 2017 that the New York State Legislature approved of the name change and the bill is awaiting Governor Andrew Cuomo's signature. Should the Governor sign it, the district will officially be known as "Suffern Central School District."

History

Until the 1940s some of the schools in the district were racially segregated, until the desegregation of the previously all-black Brooks School in 1943. [1] Thurgood Marshall who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, litigated this case as head of the NAACP legal team. Marshall later litigated and won Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas).[2]

Schools

Elementary Schools

All of the districts elementary schools are K-5

Middle School

High School

References

  1. ↑ Thomas J. Sugrue "Gof have Pity on Such a City", in his Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North Random House, 2009 ISBN 978-0-8129-7038-8 chapter in G Books
  2. ↑ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/29/thurgood-marshall-civil-rights-battle-hillburn-school/82401894


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.