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===East Ramapo Central Central School District=== The eastern half of Ramapo is served by the [[East Ramapo Central School District]]. The district operates four elementary schools that go from grades 1β3, Grandview, Summit Park, Fleetwood, and Margetts; and five elementaries that go from grades 4β6, Lime Kiln, Kakiat, Hempstead, Eldorado, and Elmwood; totaling nine elementary schools. It also operates two middle schools that go from grades 7β8, Pomona and Chestnut Ridge; and two high schools, Ramapo and Spring Valley. Spring Valley High's mascot is a tiger, and Ramapo High's is a griffin. As of 2022, the district's public schools educate some 9,500 children, while about 30,000 children who live in the district and attend private schools, mostly yeshivas that serve a growing Orthodox and Hasidic Jewish community.<ref name="lohud.com">{{cite web | url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/2022/01/28/new-york-comptroller-ranked-east-ramapo-school-district-most-fiscally-stressed/9241819002/ | title=State comptroller calls East Ramapo the most 'fiscally stressed' school district in NY }}</ref> In 2005 the Orthodox Jewish population of the district received majority control of the school board.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2014/11/17/east-ramapo-timeline/19190165/ | title=East Ramapo timeline: 2005-present }}</ref> This new board began reducing the budget and lowering taxes. The communities using the public schools opposed these actions. In July 2010 the School Board of the East Ramapo Central School District voted to sell Hillcrest Elementary School β closed due to budget cuts β to the Hasidic Jewish Congregation Yeshiva Avir Yakov of New Square.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/education/2014/11/25/east-ramapo-sells-hillcrest-school/70114646/ | title=East Ramapo sells Hillcrest for use as yeshiva again }}</ref> In 2010, the school board also voted to sell Merrill L. Colton Elementary School to Monsey-based Bais Malka Congregation and the Hebrew Academy for Special Children, a Brooklyn-based religious school for children with special needs. Transactions involving the two buildings were the focus of an ongoing state attorney general's investigation. Separately, hundreds of parent plaintiffs have also challenged them as part of their federal lawsuit against the district. The sale was finalized in 2014.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/2014/07/24/east-ramapo-sells-colton-school/13126357/ | title=East Ramapo completes school sale to yeshiva tenants }}</ref> On June 30, 2011, former president of the East Ramapo Central School District Nathan Rothschild pleaded guilty to a mail fraud scheme which had been an attempt to eliminate his own private debt. The scheme involved selling public land to his creditors, then buying the land back at a higher price. He engaged in these activities as Fire Commissioner in Monsey. Questions arose as to whether the attempt to sell Hillcrest Elementary School was engineered for similar pursuits, as the sale of the 12-acre public school campus was engineered during his time in office as the school board president at East Ramapo Central School District.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hudsonvalley.news12.com/ex-president-of-e-ramapo-school-board-pleads-guilty-to-mail-fraud-34719276 | title=Ex-president of e. Ramapo School Board pleads guilty to mail fraud }}</ref> In 2022, New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli announced that East Ramapo Central was the most "fiscally stressed" public school district in the state.<ref name="lohud.com"/>
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