Editing Putnam County, New York (section)

==Education==
The county has the following public school districts:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36079_putnam/DC20SD_C36079.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Putnam County, NY|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 18, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36079_putnam/DC20SD_C36079_SD2MS.txt See text list]</ref>
* [[Brewster Central School District]]
* [[Carmel Central School District]]
* [[Garrison Union Free School District]]
* [[Haldane Central School District]]
* [[Lakeland Central School District]]
* [[Mahopac Central School District]]
* [[North Salem Central School District]]
* [[Pawling Central School District]]
* [[Putnam Valley Central School District]]

Mahopac is the largest school district in Putnam County,{{citation needed|date=July 2022}} educating more than 5,000 students in four elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school (1600 students).<ref>[http://www.mahopac.k12.ny.us/do/profile/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029004947/http://www.mahopac.k12.ny.us/do/profile/|date=October 29, 2014}}</ref>

[[Saint Basil Academy (Garrison, New York)|Saint Basil Academy]], a private boarding facility, functioned as a private school with in-house instruction until 1997.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fuchs|first=Marek|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/02/nyregion/communities-home-for-the-troubled-at-odds-with-a-school.html|title=COMMUNITIES; Home for the Troubled At Odds With a School|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=November 2, 2003|accessdate=July 5, 2022}}</ref>

The library system consists of eight libraries; the [[Brewster Public Library]] in Brewster; the Kent Public Library in Kent; the [[Reed Memorial Library]] in Carmel; the [[Julia L. Butterfield Memorial Library]] in Cold Spring; the Alice Curtis Desmond and Hamilton Fish Library in Garrison; the Mahopac Public Library in Mahopac; the Patterson Library in Patterson, and the Putnam Valley Free Library in Putnam Valley.<ref>[http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/libs/publibs/3mh.htm#079 Mid-Hudson Library System<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

{{As of|2022}} [[SUNY Westchester Community College]] holds some general education classes at [[Mahopac High School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sunywcc.edu/locations/mahopac/|title=Mahopac|publisher=[[SUNY Westchester Community College]]|accessdate=July 18, 2022}}</ref>