Highlands is a town on the eastern border of Orange County, New York.

[4] West Point, including the United States Military Academy, is located alongside the Hudson River in Highlands.

The eastern town boundary is the border of Putnam County, marked by the Hudson River.

These statistics are consistent with the presence of the West Point military base in general, and the Academy in particular.

A portion to the southwest is in the Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District (North Rockland).

The Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) maintains elementary and middle schools for children of military personnel on-post at USMA,[10] but sends high school aged students who are dependents of on-base military personnel to O'Neill.

[13] The archdiocese suggested that parents send their children to St. Gregory Barbarigo School in Garnerville.