The following named gentlemen have been the superintendents of the schools since their organization:
| A. V. N. Powelson | 1867-69 |
| A. H. Farnham | 1869-70 |
| Hiram Warren | 1870-74 |
| Henry R. Sanford | 1874-85 |
| George T. Church | 1885-86 |
| A. B. Wilbur | 1886-91 |
| James F. Tuthill | 1891 |
The Middletown schools have a reputation for excellent work and the school rooms, especially those in the new high school, are models of convenience and furnishing.
The Port Jervis Schools—The village of Port Jervis came into being soon after the completion of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and took its name from that of the engineer in charge of that work.
It was only a small hamlet, however, until the building of the Erie Railroad, near the middle of the last century. In 1850, there were only 270 children of school age in the district. The coming of the railroad caused a rapid increase in population and by 1853, the date of the free school act, the number had increased to 562. It was not until 1862 that the district was organized under the general law as Union Free School District Number One of the town of Deerpark. By 1866, the number of children of school age had increased to 1,816.
The high school was organized in 1863, with David Beatty as teacher. This school was admitted under the Regents in 1867. There are forty-nine teachers employed and an enrollment of over 2,000 pupils.
There are six buildings used for school purposes, three of them substantial brick buildings, constructed within the past few years. A very noticeable feature of the schools in Port Jervis is the large enrollment in proportion to the population. More than 20 per cent, of the entire population was registered in the public schools, and more than one-ninth of this registration was in the high school in 1906.
The superintendents of the schools, in Port Jervis. since their organization in 1862, have been:
| K. W. Manning | 1862-63 |
| David Beatty | 1863-65 |
| Isaac M. Wellington | 1865-69 |
| Edward A. Kingsley | 1869-70 |
| A. B. Wilbur | 1870-83 |
| F. W. Best | 1883-84 |
| J. M. Dolph | 1884 |
By the courtesy of School Commissioners George W. Flood, of the First Assembly District and William P. Kaufmann of the Second, and of the Superintendents of schools in Newburgh and Middletown, I am permitted to present the principal facts of the school reports for the year 1907.