Editing Rensselaer County, New York (section)

==Education==
The county is serviced by 16 school districts. Some are completely contained in the county while some cross county lines into other counties. No school districts cross either the [[Vermont]] or [[Massachusetts]] state borders. Below is a table that shows the districts within the county, which [[Board of Cooperative Educational Services|BOCES]] they belong to, and which other counties they may serve.<ref>[http://www.cdrpc.org/RenCoSch.gif Rensselaer County School Districts.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207020250/http://www.cdrpc.org/RenCoSch.gif |date=February 7, 2009 }} [http://www.cdrpc.org/ Capital District Regional Planning Commission.] Retrieved October 14, 2008.</ref>
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! District
! BOCES<ref>[https://www.questar.org/about_us/comp_district.htm Questar III Component School Districts.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707042425/https://www.questar.org/about_us/comp_district.htm |date=July 7, 2010 }} [http://www.questar.org Questar III.] Retrieved October 14, 2008.</ref><ref>[http://wswheboces.org/component_schools.htm Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES Component Districts.] [http://wswheboces.org/ Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES.] Retrieved October 14, 2008.</ref>
! Other counties<br />district serves
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| [[Averill Park Central School District]] || [[List of school districts in New York#Questar III BOCES|Questar III]] || None
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| [http://www.berlincentral.org/ Berlin Central School District] || Questar III || None
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| [[Brunswick (Brittonkill) Central School District]] || Questar III || None
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| [http://www.cambridgecsd.org/ Cambridge Central School District] || [[List of school districts in New York#Washington-Saratoga-Warren-Hamilton-Essex BOCES|WSWHE BOCES]] || [[Washington County, New York|Washington County]]
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| [http://www.egcsd.org/ East Greenbush Central School District] || Questar III || [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]]
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| [http://www.hoosicvalley.k12.ny.us/ Hoosic Valley Central School District] || Questar III || Washington County
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| [https://web.archive.org/web/20080915062348/http://hoosick.ny.schoolwebpages.com/education/school/school.php?sectionid=10719 Hoosick Falls Central School District] || N/A || Washington County
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| [http://www.ichabodcrane.org/ Ichabod Crane Central School District] || Questar III ||Columbia County
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| [http://www.lansingburgh.org/ Lansingburgh Central School District] || Questar III || None
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|[http://www.mechanicville.org/ Mechanicville City School District] || WSWHE BOCES || [[Saratoga County]]
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|[http://www.newlebanoncsd.org/ New Lebanon Central School District] || Questar III || Columbia County
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|North Greenbush Common School District || Questar III || None
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|[http://www.rcsd.k12.ny.us/ Rensselaer City School District] || Questar III || None
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| [http://www.schodack.k12.ny.us/scs/home.htm Schodack Central School District] || Questar III || Columbia County
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| [http://www.troy.k12.ny.us/ Troy City School District] || [[Capital Region Boces]] || None
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|[http://www.wynantskillufsd.org/ Wynantskill Union Free School District] || Questar III || None
|}

{{center|The private, coeducational [[Doane Stuart School]] is also located in Rensselaer County.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.privateschoolreview.com/doane-stuart-school-profile|title=Doane Stuart School Profile - Rensselaer, New York (NY)|website=www.privateschoolreview.com}}</ref>}}

The county is also home to [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]], the oldest operating technological college in America.<ref name="history">{{cite web |title=RPI History |url=http://www.rpi.edu/about/history.html |access-date=May 1, 2009 |publisher=Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute }} Note: a possible competitor for this title is the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, which claims to have the oldest engineering department in the US  {{Cite web |url=http://www.dean.usma.edu/cme/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 25, 2022 |archive-date=August 29, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120829034008/http://www.dean.usma.edu/cme/ |url-status=dead }}. While this is true, it is still true that RPI offered the first engineering ''degree'' (Civil Engineering) in 1835. The statement of being 'the oldest" is thus justified in different ways by both. The modifier "in continuous existence" appears in Ricketts, Palmer C. ''History of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 2nd e''.</ref>