Kinderhook (Ichabod Crane) Central School District is located in between the Catskill and Berkshire mountains and serves a population of 8,296 residents in northern Columbia and southern Rensselaer counties in New York.
Currently there are three buildings, down from five after in 2012 the district closed down the elementary school of Martin H. Glynn and Martin Van Buren, the latter named after Van Buren, who made his home in Kinderhook, served as a New York state attorney general, vice president under Andrew Jackson, and as the eighth president of the United States.
Ichabod Crane High School, located on U.S. Route 9 in the Town of Kinderhook, currently serves approximately 530 students in grades 9 - 12.
[3] for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin.
The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character based on Merwin, the town's first schoolteacher.