The New Paltz Academy was a school in the village of New Paltz in Ulster County, New York. The earliest recorded school in New Paltz, it was founded around 1832 by a stock company. Prior to its existence, education in New Paltz was the informal responsibility of the local Dutch Reformed Church. The Academy's first principal was a local lawyer, Eliphaz Fay. The school served both the village and the surrounding town of New Paltz. It included an attached library.^[1]

• Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett (1880). History of Ulster County, New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers: Part Second: History of the Towns of Ulster County. Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck. OCLC 2385957.