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The Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District is the public school district of Briarcliff Manor, New York. The district is an independent public entity, and is governed by the district Board of Education, whose members are elected in non-partisan elections for staggered, three-year terms. The board selects a superintendent, who is the district's chief administrative official. The district's offices are located in Todd Elementary School. The district has three schools,Todd Elementary School, Briarcliff Middle School and Briarcliff High School. It has about 1,600 students, and spends an average of $24,858 per pupil and has a student–teacher ratio of 13:1 (the national averages are $12,435 and 15.3:1 respectively). The district is a part of the Putnam-Northern Westchester Board of Cooperative Educational Services. The Briarcliff Manor UFSD won first place for the small district category of the 2008 Digital School Districts Survey. == History == In 1865, a one-room schoolhouse was built on land donated by John Whitson on the south side of Pleasantville Road, between the Pocantico River and the New York & Putnam Railroad (now NY Route 9A/100). The building (Whitson's School, District No. 6) became the first schoolhouse in the area. George A. Todd, Jr. was the first teacher and superintendent of the school.〔〔 In 1867, the school was moved to the White School, named thus due to its exterior paint.〔 Its replacement building, Briarcliff Public School, was built in 1898 on the site of the White School. The building failed to meet requirements set by New York's commissioner of education, and thus in 1910, it became the Briarcliff Community Center, a social organization established by the village. Around the same time, in 1908, $50,000 ($ today) was voted for Briarcliff Manor to buy a plot by Law Memorial Park, and the school moved again, to the Spanish Renaissance-style Grade School building, which was built there the following year.〔 Students would attend that school from kindergarten to ninth grade and have the option to then attend the nearby Ossining High School. In 1918, the Briarcliff school began educating students through high school; in 1928, a dedicated wing for high school students was built onto the Grade School building. The enlarged school accepted students from Croton, Hawthorne, North White Plains, Valhalla, and as far as Granite Springs.〔 In 1953, Todd Elementary School opened to free space at the Law Park grade school for middle- and high-school students.〔 The present high school opened in 1971 to ease the large enrollment at the Grade School building.〔 The district under its current name was officially established in 1974.〔 In 1980, Pace University began leasing the middle school building, and the middle school was moved to a portion of the new high school building. The Grade School building was demolished in 1996, and a retirement home was built on its site the following year. In the early 2000s, the current Briarcliff Middle School was constructed adjoining to the high school.〔 The wing was completed in 2003 at a cost of $24 million ($ today) in the same red-brick-and-glass style as the high school wing.〔 In 2008, the school district won first place for the small district category of that year's Digital School Districts Survey.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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