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headquartered in Oyster Bay hamlet in the town of Oyster Bay,

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. The district was created on July 1, 1960, by the action of the voters in the former Oyster Bay and East Norwich School Districts. The district's boundaries include the hamlets of Oyster Bay and East Norwich and the incorporated villages of Centre Island,

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, and portions of

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, and Upper Brookville. There are three schools currently in the district: Roosevelt Elementary School (Grades K-2), James H. Vernon Middle School (Grades 3–6), and

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(Grades 7–12).

History

The first schoolhouse in Oyster Bay was built before the

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by Thomas Youngs, a short distance up Cove Hill from his homestead in Oyster Bay Cove. It was replaced in 1802 by the Oyster Bay Academy on East Main Street, led by the Reverend Marmaduke Earle. The first public school began in 1845, in a small wood building on South Street where Valley National Bank is currently located. It is no mistake that a street on the hill near St. Dominic's Church is called School Street; its name was changed from Petticoat Lane when a much larger public schoolhouse was built in 1872. By the 1890s it too had become overcrowded forcing some classes to meet in the dank basement and even in private homes. This led to the construction of Oyster Bay's first high school completed in 1901 on Anstice Street.

Schools

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(Grades 7-12) (Oyster Bay hamlet)
James H. Vernon Intermediate School
(Grades 3–6) ( Upper Brookville, New York, Village of Upper Brookville)
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School
(Grades K-2) (Oyster Bay hamlet)
Pre-Kindergarten at Roosevelt
(Oyster Bay Hamlet)

References

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