C. J. Hooker Middle School
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C.J. Hooker Middle School educates students in grades
Grade level
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 6
Sixth grade
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-8
Eighth grade
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 in the Goshen Central School District
Goshen Central School District
The Goshen Central School District is a public school district in Orange County, New York, USA. It educates children in the village of Goshen and most of the town, as well as the Campbell Hall section of the neighboring Town of Hamptonburgh and part of the Town of Wallkill, including the hamlet of...

, located in the eponymous village
Goshen (village), New York
Goshen is a village in and the county seat of Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 5,676 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport,...

 and town
Goshen (town), New York
Goshen is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 12,913 at the 2000 census.The Town of Goshen contains a village also called Goshen, the county seat of Orange County. The town is centrally located in the county....

 in Orange County
Orange County, New York
Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area and is located at the northern reaches of the New York metropolitan area. The county sits in the state's scenic Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley...

, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, USA. It is located on Lincoln Avenue.

It is the oldest school building in the district, and was used as its high school prior to the construction of the current building
Goshen Central High School
Goshen Central High School educates students in grades 9-12 from the Goshen Central School District, which largely overlaps the town and village of the same name in Orange County, New York, USA...

 in 1976. Its distinctive cupola
Cupola
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 plays a supporting role in the Goshen skyline
Skyline
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 when viewed from the distance.

In 2007, Josh Shih, an eighth-grader at the school, represented New York in the National Geographic Bee
National Geographic Bee
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.

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