Nyack Public Schools is a school district headquartered in the Town of Orangetown,

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, United States. It serves several areas in Orangetown and Clarkstown including the villages of Nyack,

South Nyack South Nyack is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown in Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of Grand View-on-Hudson, northeast of Orangeburg, east of Blauvelt State Park, south of Nyack and w ...

, and

Upper Nyack Upper Nyack is a village incorporated in 1872 in the town of Clarkstown, Rockland County, New York, United States. It is located north of the village of Nyack, east of Valley Cottage, south of Rockland Lake State Park, and west of the Hudson R ...

, Upper Grand View, and the hamlet of

Valley Cottage Valley Cottage is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Clarkstown, New York, United States. It is located northeast of West Nyack, northwest of Central Nyack east of Bardonia, south of Congers, northwest of Nyack, and west of ...

. As of December 2004 the district had 2,881 students in all five schools.

History

A February 1999 report released by a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Nyack Partners in Education stated that honors classes had nine times as many Euro-Americans as African Americans, while the district that Nyack is a part of had two Euro-Americans for one African Americans as a whole. This caused racial tension in the district. Aerial View of Upper Nyack Elementary School

Aerial View of Upper Nyack Elementary School

In 2001, Upper Nyack Elementary School, one of the three primary schools in the district, was the subject of " Kindergarten" an

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documentary that explored the lives of 23 kindergarten students at the school in the 2001–2002 school year. The 13 part series was produced by Emmy winning producers Karen Goodman and

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. Goodman said at the time she chose Upper Nyack Elementary School because she, "wanted a school that really could feel like it was anywhere."

Schools

Secondary schools

Nyack High School Nyack High School is a secondary school serving parts of the Town of Orangetown and Town of Clarkstown, New York, United States. The original Nyack High School building is now part of BOCES. Since 1990, Nyack High School has been located less t ...

(

) * Nyack Middle School (

)

Primary schools

* Liberty Elementary School (previously known as Lake Road School) (

) * Upper Nyack Elementary School (

) * Valley Cottage Elementary School (

)

References

External links

* {{Authority control School districts in Rockland County, New York Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing