Wappingers Central School District (WCSD) is a school district headquartered in the town of East Fishkill, New York, on Corporate Park Drive.
On November 30, 1937, in the southern portion of Dutchess County, New York, there was a meeting held to determine the consolidation of area school districts. The district was created after a September 1938 vote within all or portions of several communities in Dutchess and Putnam counties, including Wappinger, East Fishkill, Fishkill Town, and Poughkeepsie Town in Dutchess County and Kent and Philipstown in Putnam County, approved the establishment of the WCSD. Upon opening the district had attained 11 schools. In the 1950s the East Fishkill Number 6, Gayhead, Old Hopewell, Shenendoah, and Stormville school districts were consolidated into the Wappingers district.[2]
Most of the district is in Dutchess County. Towns in the school district include Fishkill, Poughkeepsie, and Wappinger. Villages in the school district include East Fishkill, Fishkill, and Wappingers Falls. Census-designated places (hamlets) in the district include Brinckerhoff, Hillside Lake, Hopewell Junction, Merritt Park, Myers Corner, New Hackensack, New Hamburg, and portions of Crown Heights, Red Oaks Mill, and Spackenkill.[3]