Valley Central School District

Students also come from adjacent areas of the towns of Newburgh, Crawford, Wallkill, Hamptonburgh, and New Windsor.

It educates children from grades kindergarten through 5, most of them residents of the village or nearby sections of the Town of Montgomery.

Walden Elementary School educates children from kindergarten through fifth grade in the village of the same name, and adjacent areas of the surrounding Town of Montgomery.

School officials locked down the building, letting police enter and confining students to their rooms until an hour after their normal dismissal time.

[3] Parents who had objected to the school's decision, and its failure to notify them, kept a quarter of the students home the next day as a protest.