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=== Schools and higher education === {{Multiple image | align = left | direction = vertical | total_width = 250 | image1 = Roosevelt Island School 217 jeh.jpg | caption1 = PS 217 | image2 = Cornell Tech buildings (41991) crop.jpg | caption2 = Cornell Tech }} Roosevelt Island is served by the [[New York City Department of Education]].<ref name="NYCDOE M217">{{cite web |title=PS/IS 217 Roosevelt Island |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M217 |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=[[New York City Department of Education]]}}</ref> When it was redeveloped as a residential community in the 1970s, the island was planned with up to 16 schools serving grades K-12, each accommodating 180 to 300 students.<ref name="The New York Times 1974" /> Roosevelt Island's schools were spread across several apartment buildings.<ref name="The New York Times 1974">{{cite web |date=April 7, 1974 |title=2 Minischools Open Herein Fall To Serve Roosevelt I. Housing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/07/archives/2-minischools-open-here-in-fall-to-serve-roosevelt-i-housing-a.html |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6M8AAAAMAAJ |title=The Management of Publicly Owned Land in Urban Areas |publisher=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |year=1979 |isbn=978-92-64-12008-2 |series=Document (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) |page=56 |access-date=December 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231228034215/https://books.google.com/books?id=V6M8AAAAMAAJ |archive-date=December 28, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> The school system taught fine arts as part of a partnership with [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], and each school taught a foreign language as well.<ref name="Claiborne 1975" /> The first school on Roosevelt Island opened in 1975 with a single student and two teachers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Swertlow |first=Eleanor |date=May 8, 1975 |title=Little Red-Ink Schoolhouse |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-little-red-ink-schoolhouse/143821663/ |access-date=March 21, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=4}}</ref> By the 1980s, the island had five school buildings, each serving two grades.<ref name="Specter 1982" /> All of the island's schools were combined in 1992 into PS/IS 217 Roosevelt Island School,<ref name="timeline" /> which is located on Main Street.<ref name="NYCDOE M217" /> By the 21st century, PS/IS 217 was the only public school on the island, serving students from [[pre-kindergarten]] to grade 8.<ref name="Hughes 2007" /><ref name="Jacobson 2014">{{cite web |last=Jacobson |first=Aileen |date=November 5, 2014 |title=The Quiet Manhattan: Roosevelt Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/realestate/the-quiet-manhattan-roosevelt-island.html |access-date=March 22, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> High-school students on the island generally went to schools in Manhattan.<ref name="Hughes 2007" /> [[The Child School]] and Legacy High School serves [[special needs]] children with learning and emotional disabilities.<ref>{{cite web |title=Child School Legacy High School |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0457610D:US |access-date=March 20, 2024 |website=Bloomberg}}</ref> In 2011, Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]] announced that [[Cornell Tech]], a [[Cornell University]]-[[Technion-Israel Institute of Technology]] graduate school of applied sciences, would be built on the island.<ref name="Pérez-Peña 2011" /> The first phase of Cornell Tech opened in 2017.<ref name="Warerkar 2017" /> [[File:LLRoosevelt.jpg|thumb|United for Libraries Literary Landmark dedicated by the Empire State Center for the Book]]
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