Editing Ilion, New York (section)

==Education==
Until its merger in 2013 with the Mohawk Central School District, Ilion Central School District was composed of three buildings: Remington Elementary, Barringer Road Elementary, and Ilion Jr/Sr High School. The athletic team's nickname was the Golden Bombers, the mascot was the Bomber Bear, and the school colors were gold and brown. Barringer Road Elementary, which remained open, nicknames its students the Bobcats. Remington Elementary was rented (and later sold) to Herkimer County [[BOCES]] and now houses its Pathways Academy, which provides education for students who struggle in a traditional school environment.<ref name="v502">{{cite web | title=PATHWAYS ACADEMY | website=Herkimer-Fulton-Hamilton-Otsego BOCES | date=2024-04-11 | url=https://www.herkimer-boces.org/page/pathways-academy | access-date=2024-06-23}}</ref>

In the 2010–2011 year, the district had a $25 million budget and about 1,600 students; the 2011 budget proposed a cut of $1.1 million. Prior to their merger with Mohawk, Ilion Central School District was among the poorest in the state of [[New York (state)|New York]]. More than a third of its students were eligible for free or low-priced lunches, a standard measure of [[Poverty in the United States|poverty]]. Ilion was promised additional state education aid after the [[Campaign for Fiscal Equity|CFE]] court ruling in 2006, but due to the state budget crisis, this did not come to fruition. Although the buildings remained in good repair, the district was not able to afford any foreign language education (other than Spanish), and offered only four of 34 possible [[Advanced Placement|AP]] courses.<ref name="Poor">{{Cite news |date=March 26, 2011 |title=Rich District, Poor District |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/opinion/27sun1.html |access-date=January 13, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331|page=9|department=Editorial}}</ref>

A plan to merge the Mohawk and Ilion school districts had been proposed in 2009. In 2012, voters rejected a three-way merger including [[Herkimer Central School District]], and a four-way merger that included [[Frankfort, New York|Frankfort]]-[[Schuyler, New York|Schuyler]] School District. In early 2013, voters approved the merger of the Mohawk and Ilion school districts.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fries |first=Amanda |title=Mohawk-Ilion school district merger passes |url=https://www.uticaod.com/story/sports/high-school/baseball/2013/02/13/mohawk-ilion-school-district-merger/44883290007/ |access-date=January 13, 2024 |website=Utica Observer Dispatch |language=en-US|date=February 13, 2013}}</ref> The new [[Central Valley Central School District]] began classes starting with the 2013–2014 academic year, with Ilion's high school serving as the new district's high school.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}