Editing Albany, New York (section)

==Education==
{{See also|List of colleges and universities in New York's Capital District|List of school districts in New York's Capital District}}
[[File:AHSCourtyard.JPG|thumb|[[Albany High School (Albany, New York)|Albany High School]] is the central high school of the [[City School District of Albany]].<ref name="schools" /> |alt=A brick courtyard is flanked by three-story brick buildings with a black glass bridge between them. Trees are visible to the right.]]
The [[City School District of Albany]] (CSDA) operates the city's [[State school|public school]] system, which consists of 17 schools and learning centers;<ref name="schools">{{cite web |title=Our Schools |publisher=Albany City School District |url=http://www.albanyschools.org/schools/index.htm |access-date=July 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017021513/http://albanyschools.org/schools/index.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> in addition, there are 7 charter schools,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.p12.nysed.gov/psc/csdirectory/county/county/albany.html|title=Charter Schools in Albany County|website=www.p12.nysed.gov|access-date=July 18, 2016|archive-date=June 19, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160619153835/http://www.p12.nysed.gov/psc/csdirectory/county/county/albany.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> including Green Tech Charter High School,<ref>{{cite web |title=green-tech-high |url=http://www.greentechhigh.org/ |website=green-tech-high |access-date=March 13, 2019 |language=en}}</ref> and Albany Leadership High School.<ref>{{cite web |title=Home |url=http://www.albanyleadershiphigh.org/ |website=Albany Leadership High |access-date=March 13, 2019}}</ref>{{Efn|Albany was once home to 12 charter schools<ref>{{cite news |author=Waldman, Scott |date=June 20, 2010 |page=A1 |title=Failed School Offers Lesson |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=11062177 |url-status=dead  |access-date=July 11, 2010 |archive-date=July 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707153301/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=11062177 }}</ref> until the closing of New Covenant Charter School in 2010.<ref name=newcovenant>{{cite news|title=Again, Board Says Close |author=Waldman, Scott |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |date=March 30, 2010 |url=http://alb.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=10087585 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501052458/http://alb.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=10087585 |url-status=dead|archive-date=May 1, 2011 |access-date=April 26, 2010 |page=B1 }}</ref> It was announced in July 2010 that the Harriet Gibbons High School, an alternative high school for at-risk ninth graders, would close after a negative report from the [[New York State Department of Education|State Department of Education]] demanded the elimination of ineffective programs.<ref>{{cite news |title=A New Direction Closes a School |author=Waldman, Scott |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |work=Times Union (Albany) |date=July 8, 2010 |page=D1 |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=11313799 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 9, 2010 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430030138/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=11313799 }}</ref>|group=Note}} In the 2015–2016 school year, over 9,000 students were enrolled in the public school system.<ref name="schools" /> The district had an average class size of 18,<ref name="09AOR">{{cite web|title=The New York State District Report Card: Accountability and Overview Report 2008–09 |publisher=State of New York Education Department Office of Information and Reporting Services |year=2010 |url=http://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2009/90/AOR-2009-010100010000.pdf |access-date=June 1, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323021634/https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2009/90/AOR-2009-010100010000.pdf |archive-date=March 23, 2012 }}</ref> an 81-percent graduation rate,{{efn|The Accountability and Overview Report<ref name=09AOR/> puts the class of 2009 at 513 students and the Comprehensive Information Report<ref name=09CIR/> states that 416 of them graduated.|group=Note}} and a 5-percent dropout rate.<ref name="09CIR">{{cite web|title=The New York State District Report Card: Comprehensive Information Report 2008–09 |publisher=State of New York Education Department Office of Information and Reporting Services |year=2010 |url=http://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2009/90/CIR-2009-010100010000.pdf |access-date=June 1, 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323021801/https://www.nystart.gov/publicweb-rc/2009/90/CIR-2009-010100010000.pdf |archive-date=March 23, 2012 }}</ref> The district's 2010–11 budget is $202.8 million.<ref>{{cite web |title=City voters approve $202.8 million spending plan for 2010–11 |publisher=Albany City School District |date=May 20, 2010 |url=http://www.albanyschools.org/Budget/2010-11/10-11%20budget.htm |url-status=dead|access-date=June 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100620202242/http://albanyschools.org/Budget/2010-11/10-11%20budget.htm |archive-date=June 20, 2010 }}</ref> Although considered by the state to be one of the lowest-achieving high schools in New York, [[Albany High School (Albany, New York)|Albany High]] was listed as the nation's 976th best high school in a 2010 ''[[Newsweek]]/[[Washington Post]]'' report.<ref>{{cite news |title=Newsweek Says Albany High One of Nation's Best Schools |author=Waldman, Scott |publisher=Hearst Corporation |work=Times Union (Albany) |url=http://blog.timesunion.com/schools/newsweek-says-albany-high-one-of-nations-best-schools/909/ |date=June 17, 2010 |access-date=June 17, 2010}}</ref> Albany also has a number of private schools, including the [[coed]] [[Bishop Maginn High School]] and [[Albany Free School]]; the [[Single-sex education|all-boys]] [[The Albany Academy|Albany Academy]];{{efn|[[Christian Brothers Academy (Albany, New York)|Christian Brothers Academy]] was located in various Albany locations throughout the 19th century and then moved to the University Heights neighborhood in 1937. The school moved out of the city to Colonie in 1998 and has remained there since.<ref>{{cite web |title=CBA Homepage |publisher=Christian Brothers Academy |url=http://www.cbaalbany.org |access-date=June 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607131631/http://cbaalbany.org/ |archive-date=June 7, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>|group=Note}} and the all-girls [[Academy of the Holy Names (Albany, New York)|Academy of the Holy Names]] and [[Albany Academy for Girls]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Albany County Private Schools |publisher=Private School Review |url=http://www.privateschoolreview.com/county_private_schools/stateid/NY/county/36001 |access-date=June 7, 2010}}</ref>
[[File:UAlbanyStateQuad.jpg|thumb|left|State Quad is one of the four dormitory towers at [[University at Albany|SUNY Albany's]] [[University at Albany, SUNY#Uptown Campus|Uptown Campus]].<ref name="mceneny122124" />|alt=A single modern-style tower is surrounded by a lower open-air pavilion with trees accenting the area.]]

The [[Albany Medical College]] ([[private university|private]]), today part of [[Albany Medical Center]], was founded in 1839.<ref>{{Cite AMB1920|wstitle=Armsby, James H.}}</ref> [[Albany Law School]] (private) is the oldest [[Law school in the United States|law school]] in New York and the fourth-oldest in the country; it was opened in 1851. President [[William McKinley]] was an alumnus.<ref>{{cite book |author=Elizabeth K. Allen |title=Albany Law School 1851–2001: A Tradition of change |author2=Diana S. Waite |date=2000 |publisher=Albany Law School |pages=3, 14–16}}</ref> The [[Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences]] (private) is the second-oldest pharmacy school in New York and the fifteenth-oldest in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the capital district area in Albany, New York |url=https://thevillageanimalclinic.com/resources/albany-pet-care.php |access-date=March 25, 2023 |website=thevillageanimalclinic.com}}</ref>

The [[New York State Normal School]], one of the oldest teachers colleges in the United States, opened in 1844; it was later known as the State Teachers College. It eventually evolved into the [[University at Albany]], also known as SUNY Albany ([[Public university|public]]), which inherited the Normal School's original downtown campus on Western Avenue. The center of the campus moved to its current [[University at Albany, SUNY#Uptown Campus|Uptown Campus]] in the west end of the city in 1970. SUNY Albany is a unit of the [[State University of New York]] and one of only four university centers in the system.<ref name="mceneny122124">McEneny (2006), pp. 122–124</ref> Other colleges and universities in Albany include [[Empire State College]], [[The College of Saint Rose]], [[Excelsior College]], [[Maria College]], [[Mildred Elley]], and [[Sage College of Albany]]. Nearby [[Hudson Valley Community College]] (HVCC) fills the [[community college]] niche in the Albany-Troy area.<ref>{{cite news |title=Visit Fuels Tech Talk |author=Rulison, Larry |work=Times Union (Albany) |publisher=Hearst Newspapers |page=D1 |date=September 22, 2009 |url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=8726789 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 18, 2010 |archive-date=April 30, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430030021/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=8726789 }}</ref> The effect of the campuses on the city's population is substantial: Combining the student bodies of all the aforementioned campuses (except HVCC) results in 63,149 students, or almost 70 percent of the 2008 estimate of Albany's permanent population.<ref>{{cite web |title=Colleges in Albany, New York |publisher=National Center for Educational Statistics |url=http://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/index.asp?search=1&State=NY&city=Albany&zipcode=&miles=&itemname=&sortby=name&College=1&CS=A120109F |access-date=June 8, 2010}}</ref>