Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

== Education ==

=== Early childhood education ===
[[Garden House School]] is an elementary school in London; it also runs [[preschool]]s in New York City and in Briarcliff Manor,<ref name="GardenHouse"/> at the Briarcliff Congregational Church's parish house.<ref name="GardenHouse2"/> Briarcliff Nursery School is a preschool on Morningside Drive, just outside village borders in Ossining. It was established in 1947 at Briarcliff Manor's old recreation building; it moved to Walter Law's Manor House and then to the William Kingsland mansion, and moved to its current location in 1955.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=156}}

=== Primary and secondary schools ===
[[File:Briarcliff High School.JPG|thumb|Briarcliff High School|alt=High school building with a two-story rectangular brick building in the foreground and a round auditorium in the background]]
The village is home to the [[Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District]], which covers {{convert|6.58|sqmi|km2|1}} of land{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} and most of the village of Briarcliff Manor and an unincorporated portion of the town of Mount Pleasant.<ref name=CensusSDMap>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36119_westchester/DC20SD_C36119.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Westchester County, NY|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2024-10-16}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st36_ny/schooldistrict_maps/c36119_westchester/DC20SD_C36119_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> Parts of Briarcliff Manor not covered by the school district include Scarborough and Chilmark and total 28% of the municipality's area; these areas are part of the [[Ossining Union Free School District]].<ref name="NYTBriarcliff"/>

The Briarcliff Manor district serves over 1,000 students and includes [[Todd Elementary School]], [[Briarcliff Middle School]], and [[Briarcliff High School]].<ref name="pamphlet"/> From Briarcliff Manor's settlement until 1918, students in [[Educational stages|grades]] [[First grade|1]]–[[Eighth grade|8]] were taught within one school facility; from 1919 until the 1940s, students in grades 1–[[Twelfth grade|12]] were as well.<ref name="1977history"/>{{rp|page=50}} The district is noted for its annual high-school musicals.<ref name="BMSD Musicals"/> The elementary school (opened in 1953) is named after George A. Todd, Jr.,<ref name="pamphlet"/> who was the village's first teacher, first superintendent of schools, and taught for over 40 years.<ref name="pamphlet"/> The middle school became a [[Blue Ribbon School]] in 2005.<ref name="Blue Ribbon Schools"/>

Briarcliff Manor has been home to a number of schools. Long Hill School was a public school in Scarborough until 1912, with about 70 students, two classrooms, and two teachers. [[Dr. Holbrook's Military School]] was on Holbrook Road from 1866 to 1915.<ref name="PlaceOfSchools"/> Miss Tewksbury's School and later Mrs. Marshall's Day & Boarding School for Little Girls was at Dysart House. Miss Knox's School ran from 1905 in Pocantico Lodge, a hotel on Pleasantville Road under Briarcliff Lodge management. When it burned down in 1912, the school moved to [[Tarrytown, New York|Tarrytown]] and then to [[Cooperstown]].<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=38}} Since 1954, the Knox School has been located at [[St. James, New York]].<ref name="KnoxSchool"/> The [[Scarborough School]] was first Montessori school in the United States; it was located at the Beechwood estate from 1913 until it closed in 1978.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|pages=93, 158}} Since then, The Clear View School has run a day treatment program for 83 students from nursery school age to 21 there.<ref name="ClearView"/> The [[Bernarr Macfadden|Macfadden School]] ran from 1939 to 1950 at the William Kingsland mansion in the village.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=125}} The village's Catholic church, St. Theresa's, operated a school for [[pre-kindergarten]] to eighth grade students from 1965 to 2013.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=157}} At its closing, the school had approximately 150 students and 20 employees.<ref name="StTheresaNYT"/>

=== Higher education ===
[[File:Dow Hall of Briarcliff College (2015).png|thumb|left|alt=A Châteauesque brick building with a circular drive|[[Pace University]]'s Dow Hall, built in 1905]]
The first institute for higher education in the village was the [[School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture]], which Walter Law helped establish on his Briarcliff Farms in 1900.<ref name="SPA-NYT"/> The school taught students ages 16 to 35 in crop and livestock care. In 1902, the school moved to a larger location near [[Poughkeepsie]] and closed a year later due to a lack of funding.<ref name="Closed"/> In addition, Briarcliff Manor has been the location for several colleges. [[Briarcliff Junior College]] was founded in 1903 at the Briarcliff Lodge, and moved near Briarcliff Congregational Church, on land Walter Law donated, in 1905. Among its trustees were [[Howard Deering Johnson]], [[Norman Cousins]], [[Carl Carmer]], [[Thomas K. Finletter]], [[William Zorach]], [[Eduard C. Lindeman]], and [[Lyman Bryson]]. [[Ordway Tead]] was chairman of the board of trustees, and his wife Clara was the college's first president. The school gradually improved its academic scope and standing, and was registered with the [[New York State Education Department|State Education Department]] and accredited by the [[Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools]] in 1944. In 1951, the Board of Regents authorized the college to grant Associate of Arts and Associate of Applied Science degrees. The following year, the [[Army Map Service]] selected the college as the only one in the country for professional training in cartography. In 1956, the [[junior college]] started issuing bachelor's degrees, and became known as Briarcliff College. In 1977 Pace University bought Briarcliff College and the [[Spanish Renaissance-style]] Briarcliff Grade School building, incorporating them into its Pleasantville campus. The Briarcliff Grade School building, which housed the village public school from 1909 to 1980, became known as the Pace University Village Center. During Pace's occupation, the building housed the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society and the Village Youth Center. Pace University operated the school building until its demolition in 1996, and the Briarcliff College campus until 2015.<ref name="FamilyAlbum"/>{{rp|page=45}} At the Briarcliff Lodge property, the Edgewood Park School operated from 1936 to 1954, and King's College subsequently operated there from 1955 to 1994, also using the lodge building and other dormitories and academic buildings.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=172}}