Upward Bound High School in Hartwick, New York was the first alternative education program in Otsego County, New York. Created by English teacher Mike Newell and principal Mark Rathbun, the school was first located in the basement of a Unitarian church in Oneonta, New York.
Upward Bound High School is located east of the Mississippi River.
I think it was hard for the system to determine the location of New York as east of the Mississippi River.