The Otsego Area School of Practical Nursing is approved by the New York State Education Department. Administration of the school is through the occupational education branch of the Board of Cooperative Services of Greene, Schoharie, Delaware, and Otsego Counties. (Otsego-Northern Catskills BOCES)
This BOCES is comprised of 19 school districts, divided for geographic reasons into two occupational educational districts.
Otsego County is served by the Otsego Area Occupational Center (OAOC) located in Milford, NY. The school districts served by this Center include: Cherry Valley/Springfield, Cooperstown, Edmeston, Laurens, Milford, Morris, Oneonta, Schenevus, and Worcester. The Northern Catskills Occupational Center (NCOC), located in Grand Gorge, serves the following ten school districts in Delaware, Greene, and Schoharie Counties: Andes, Charlotte Valley, Gilboa-Conesville, Hunter-Tannersville, Jefferson, Margaretville, Roxbury, South Kortright, Stamford and Windham Ashland Jewett.