Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

=== 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"/>