These 10 Tiny Upstate New York School Districts Still Survive

This list looks at the ten smallest school districts in Upstate New York. There are some amazing things to check out.

First almost all of them are exclusively in the rural stretches of the Adirondack Park and the North Country. Many of these schools have total school enrollments of the size of an average graduating class! In fact some of these schools routinely have graduating classes of a dozen or less.

The schools are usually far from other larger districts that they could possibly merge with, but haven't. For various reason. Each of the ten schools has a link to the school's webpage and a bit of information about the village it is located in.

NOTE: This might be an imperfect list as things change rapidly in today's world. Mergers come up, get voted on, go down in flames, or start the process of connecting with another school. The information mentioned in this list is as current as I could find on the school's data pages. ALSO....there are smaller schools than these. However, I have decided to include only schools that have a full K-12 grade study program. There are several smaller schools which cater to a specific group, or population and therefore are not open to the general public. There are also several smaller schools than these that do not have a graduation class. They educate only a few select, younger class grades. Sometimes they identify themselves as "common schools."

For example, the North Greenbush Common School District is usually listed as the smallest one in the state. I did not include it because it educates only a few select classes today. Still, the story of "The Little Red Schoolhouse," going strong since 1861 is a charming one! It is also one of the last active one-room schoolhouses in New York State.

Wow! These Ten Smallest Upstate New York Schools Keep Teaching Their Kids The "3 R's"

These are the ten smallest school districts in New York (by enrollment). Notice they are almost exclusively located in the rural parts of Northern New York. Still, credit must be given for the historic nature of these special schools.

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

Are These the Best, Most Fun "Retro" Furniture Stores in Upstate New York? We Think So!

Remember when couches were purple, dinette sets were bright red, and living room lampshades came in every color of the rainbow? If you do, your are a Baby Boomer and we have found your old furniture at these great Upstate New York retro stores!

And if you lived through those times, you have to remember when everybody thought, "Thank God!" when those styles went, well, out of style! So, how could they ever come back to being one the hottest collectible styles of furniture today? The answer is simple.

We all got old.

We yearn for the good old days, which seemed simpler and better (OK, put your rose colored glasses down). The furniture, which dawned at the infancy of the Space Age, was zany in design, dazzling in color, and made your home look modern and fun. So why not bring it all back. Can you believe what happened to vinyl records?

These stores are among the best in Upstate New York that sell the Mid-Century Modern furniture that our parents' had. We want them now. And these stores are stocked to the walls with anything you need to enter the "way back machine" and relive the days of your youth with original furniture and accessories from the 1940s-1980s.

Gallery Credit: Chuck D'Imperio

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