School district boundaries

Question: Seeing the tax rates per town table in one of the other questions leads me to ask - how are school district lines determined? How is it that towns that have their own schools are part of our district? How is it that parts of Broadalbin and Perth don't belong to the B-P district?

Answer: According to New York State Education Law (Article 37, Section 1801: Formation and Changes of Central School Districts), "The commissioner of education is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out central school districts for the establishment of central schools to give instruction in elementary or elementary and high school subjects and to fix, determine and define the boundaries of said districts as hereinafter provided."

That being said, the boundaries of the former Broadalbin and Perth central schools were created long before my time. When the two districts merged, their boundaries were also merged. Today, the boundary we work with is based on the taxable parcels in the district tax rolls.