The East Ramapo Central School District is the largest school district in Rockland Country. Spring Valley is one of two high schools within East Ramapo. Located 30 miles northwest of New York, in the center of Rockland County, East Ramapo is a middle-class suburban, predominantly residential community within commuting distance of the New York City, Westchester County, and northern New Jersey. The district's total area is 33 square miles, with an estimated 100,000 residents within its borders.

Rockland County has three private four-year colleges, a state university community college, and a rapidly growing and diversified cultural arts programs. Its central location at the base of the Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River makes it an ideal location in which to live, work, and learn, as well as a geographically vital area through which the New York Thruway, Palisades Interstate Parkway, and other essential arteries run.