Suffern High School

Suffern is served by the excellent Ramapo Central School District and is home to Cherry Lane Elementary, RP Connor Elementary School, Montebello Elementary School, Viola Elementary School, Suffern Middle School and Suffern High School. The village is also home to Rockland Community College, a two year school part of the SUNY system. The college is... also a major cultural and community center that regularly hosts different events ranging from music concerts and theater plays to annual car and dog shows. Another educational facility in the village is the Suffern Free Library. Higher education is also available at Ramapo College of New Jersey, a four year college located only a few miles away in Mahwah. Suffern is home to the Good Samaritan Hospital, which has more than 350 beds and provides comprehensive and diverse services ranging from emergency visits to specialty cancer and cardiac treatments. The hospital is one of three main hospitals in Rockland County and even provides services for residents of nearby Bergen (NJ) and Orange Counties. Suffern has an urban characteristic with a solid old-fashioned downtown area full of shops, businesses and restaurants serving a variety of wonderful ethnic and American cuisines. The Downtown area includes Lafayette Theater, which was built in 1924 and has about a 1,000 seating capacity. Other notable landmarks in the downtown Suffern include a couple of museums and a soldier's monument greeting the people entering the downtown area. The downtown area also includes village hall, police and fire headquarters. In addition to several fast food restaurant and retail chains, Suffern is home to Rockland County's only Wal-Mart. The residential communities of Suffern consist mostly of single family homes with some apartment buildings, all of which are tucked away nicely from any distractions and surrounded by wooded areas. The two main roads passing through Suffern are route 202 and route 59, both of which have a significant presence of businesses. Additionally, Suffern is ...Read More