Westchester County, New York Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the most populous north of New York City. According to the 2020 United States Census, the county had a population ...

, in the United States, contains 40 public school districts, 118 private schools and 14 colleges/universities. According to the 2018 rankings provided by the education website

Niche Niche may refer to: Science *Developmental niche, a concept for understanding the cultural context of child development *Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species *Niche differentiation, in ecology, the ...

, taking into account public comments, 28 of the top 100

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s in New York State were located in Westchester County.

Public school districts

Most school district boundaries do not follow municipal boundaries, but the six city school districts in the county have the same boundaries as their cities. The districts are as follows: *

Ardsley Union Free School District Ardsley Union Free School District (AUFSD) is a school district headquartered in Ardsley, New York Ardsley is a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is part of the town of Greenburgh. The village's population was 4,452 ...

Bedford Central School District Bedford Central School District is a school district located approximately 50 minutes north of New York City in northern Westchester County, New York Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the seventh most populo ...

Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District The Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District is the public school district of Briarcliff Manor, New York. The district is an independent public entity, and is governed by the district Board of Education, whose members are elected in non-parti ...

* Blind Brook-Rye School District *

Bronxville Union Free School District Bronxville Union Free School District is a public school district serving the Village of Bronxville, Westchester County, New York. In 2012, 1635 students were enrolled in the district elementary, middle and high school which are all housed wi ...

Byram Hills Central School District Byram Hills Central School District is a school district headquartered in Armonk, New York. The schools include Coman Hill Elementary School, Wampus Elementary School, H.C. Crittenden Middle School, and Byram Hills High School Byram Hills High S ...

Chappaqua Central School District The Chappaqua Central School District is a K-12 public school district serving students in Chappaqua, New York, Millwood, as well as parts of Pleasantville, and Mount Kisco. The current superintendent of schools is Dr. Christine Ackerman. C ...

Croton Harmon Union Free School District Croton may refer to: Biology *Crotoneae, a tribe of the flowering plant subfamily Crotonoideae * ''Croton'' (plant), a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae **'' Croton capitatus'', also known as the woolly croton **'' Croton hancei'', a speci ...

Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District is a grade K–12 school district based in Dobbs Ferry, New York, in the Hudson Valley, approximately 20 miles north of midtown Manhattan. The district is small as compared to most of the districts in Wes ...

Eastchester Union Free School District Eastchester Union Free School District is a school district headquartered in Eastchester, New York Eastchester is a town in southern Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was over 34,641 at the 2020 United States census ...

Edgemont Union Free School District The Edgemont School District or Edgemont Union Free School District is a school district in Westchester County, New York. Its superintendent is Kenneth Hamilton.Edgemont School District, "District Personnel." September 5, 2012. Retrieved April ...

* Elmsford Union Free School District *

Greenburgh Central School District Greenburgh Central School District (GCSD) is a school district headquartered in Hartsdale, New York. History In 2014 Ronald O. Ross was the superintendent. Gary Stern of ''The Journal News ''The Journal News'' is a newspaper in New York Stat ...

* Harrison Central School District * Hastings Central School District *

Hendrick Hudson Central School District Hendrick Hudson School District is located in Westchester County, New York and is made up of five schools: three elementary schools, named Buchanan Verplanck, Furnace Woods, and Frank G. Lindsay and one middle school, named Blue Mountain Middle S ...

Irvington Union Free School District Irvington Union Free School District is a school district encompassing Irvington, New York and some surrounding neighborhoods. The district also includes East Irvington, an unincorporated area of the Town of Greenburgh, and the Pennybridge sec ...

* Katonah-Lewisboro Union Free School District *

Lakeland Central School District The Lakeland Central School District is a public school district in New York State, serving approximately 5200 students in of the towns of Yorktown, Cortlandt and Somers in Westchester County; and the towns of Carmel, Philipstown, and Put ...

Mamaroneck Union Free School District The Mamaroneck Union Free School District is the school district created to serve the public education needs of Larchmont and Mamaroneck, New York. It serves the Town of Mamaroneck, the Village of Larchmont and the part of the Village of Mamar ...

Mount Pleasant Central School District Mount Pleasant Central School District is a school district headquartered in Thornwood, New York. History Susan Guiney began working for the district in 2008 as a superintendent. In 2018 she announced that she would retire. Kurtis Kotes became ...

* Mount Vernon City School District * The

City School District of New Rochelle The City School District of New Rochelle is a public school district located in New Rochelle, New York. New Rochelle has one of the most extensive educational systems in Westchester County, comprising a high school, two middle schools, six el ...

North Salem Central School District North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...

Ossining Union Free School District Ossining Union Free School District is a school district headquartered in the Village of Ossining, Town of Ossining, New York. The district includes sections of the towns of Ossining and New Castle. Included within the portions of the school ...

* Peekskill City School District * Pelham Union Free School District *

Pleasantville Union Free School District Pleasantville may refer to: Places Canada * Pleasantville, a defunct community located inside the modern boundaries of Newmarket, Ontario * Pleasantville, Newfoundland and Labrador * Pleasantville (electoral district) - former electoral district in ...

Pocantico Hills Central School District Pocantico may refer to: *Pocantico Hills, New York Pocantico Hills is a hamlet in the Westchester County town of Mount Pleasant, New York, United States. The Rockefeller family estate, anchored by Kykuit, the family seat built by John D. Rockefe ...

Port Chester Rye Union Free School District Port Chester Public Schools, officially known as the Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District,Platzman, Cheryl. "IF YOU'RE THINKING OF LIVING IN/RYE BROOK, N.Y.; 1 Close-Knit Village, 2 School Districts." (Correction Appended) ''The New York Ti ...

* Rye City School District *

Rye Neck Union Free School District The Rye Neck Union Free School District is the school district created to serve the public education needs of parts of Mamaroneck and Rye, New York. It serves the part of the Village of Mamaroneck that is within the Town of Rye and part of the ...

* Scarsdale Union Free School District * Somers Central School District * Tarrytown Union Free School District *

Tuckahoe Union Free School District The Tuckahoe Union Free School District is headquartered in the town of Eastchester, in Westchester County Westchester County is located in the U.S. state of New York. It is the seventh most populous county in the State of New York and the ...

Valhalla Union Free School District The Valhalla Union Free School District (VUFSD) is located in Valhalla, New York Valhalla is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York City m ...

* White Plains Public School District *

Yonkers Public Schools Yonkers Public Schools is a school district that serves all of Yonkers, New York, United States. It is governed by a mayorally appointed Board of Trustees. Organization The school district is organized and governed according to New York State ...

Yorktown Central School District Yorktown Central School District is a school district in Yorktown Heights Yorktown Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Yorktown in Westchester County, New York, United States. The population was 1,781 at the 2010 censu ...

Private schools

;High Schools *

Archbishop Stepinac High School Archbishop Stepinac High School is an American all-boys' Roman Catholic high school in White Plains, New York. It was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York until the 2009–2010 school year, when it became independent of th ...

, White Plains *

Blessed Sacrament-St. Gabriel High School Blessed Sacrament-St. Gabriel High School was a co-educational, private, Roman Catholic high school in New Rochelle, New York in Westchester County. The school was a result of the merger of Blessed Sacrament and Saint Gabriel's into one co-educati ...

, New Rochelle * Daytop Village Secondary School, Hartsdale *

French-American School of New York The French-American School of New York (also known as the Lycée Franco-Américain de New York, or FASNY) is an international and bilingual independent school located in suburban Westchester County, New York. Since its founding in 1980, FASNY ha ...

senior high, Scarsdale * German School of New York, White Plains *

Hackley School Hackley School is a private college preparatory school located in Tarrytown, New York, and is a member of the Ivy Preparatory School League. Founded in 1899 by a wealthy philanthropist, Frances Hackley, Hackley was intended to be a Unitarian al ...

, Tarrytown *Hallen Center, New Rochelle *

The Harvey School The Harvey School is a co-educational, college preparatory school near Katonah, New York, for students in grades 6 through 12. It is located on a wooded, 125-acre campus and has an annual budget (2015) of $14 million. AP courses in biology, Ame ...

, Katonah *

Iona Preparatory School Iona Preparatory School, or simply Iona Prep, is an independent, Roman Catholic, all-male, college-preparatory school located in the north end of New Rochelle, New York, in suburban Westchester County. It consists of the Upper School for Grade ...

(Upper School), New Rochelle * John F. Kennedy Catholic High School, Somers * The Karafin School, Inc., Somers *

Keio Academy of New York is a private high school in Purchase, Harrison, New York in the New York City metropolitan area. It is sponsored by Keio University,Lyman, Rick.THE JAPANESE WAY IN A QUIET NEW YORK SCHOOL, 463 CHILDREN OF \ JAPAN'S CORPORATE ELITE GET A PROPER EDU ...

, Purchase * The Leffell School, Hartsdale *

Maria Regina High School Maria Regina High School, commonly referred to as Maria or MRHS, is an American Catholic, college-preparatory high school (grades 9–12) for girls founded by the Sisters of the Resurrection, located in Hartsdale, New York. History In 1957, M ...

, Hartsdale *

The Masters School The Masters School (colloquially known as Masters), is a private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Its campus is located north of New York City in the Hudson Valley in West ...

, Dobbs Ferry *

The Montfort Academy The Montfort Academy is an American private, Roman Catholic high school in Mt. Vernon, New York. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Background As of 2012, the school had been ranked for seven years in a row as ...

, Mt. Vernon *

New York School for the Deaf The New York School for the Deaf is a private school for the deaf in Greenburgh, New York, in Westchester County just north of New York City, United States. History The New York School for the Deaf was chartered in 1817 as the New York Insti ...

, White Plains *

Rye Country Day School Rye Country Day School, also known as Rye Country Day or RCDS, is an independent, co-educational college preparatory school located in Rye, New York. Its Upper School (grades 9–12), Middle School (5–8), and Lower School (Pre-Kindergarten-4) ...

, Rye * Sacred Heart High School, Yonkers * Salesian High School, New Rochelle * School of the Holy Child, Rye * Thornton Donovan School, New Rochelle *

The Ursuline School The Ursuline School is an American all-girls', independent, private, Roman Catholic middle and high school located on a campus in New Rochelle, New York, in Westchester County. The school was founded in 1897 by the Order of St. Ursula. The s ...

, New Rochelle * Westchester Hebrew High School, Mamaroneck *Yeshiva Farm Settlement School, Mount Kisco *Yeshivath Ohr Hameir, Peekskill ;Elementary, Junior High and Special Schools *Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel, White Plains *Annunciation School, Crestwood *Bedford Christian School, Bedford *Bereshith Cultural School, Mount Vernon *Berjan School, Mamaroneck *Blessed Sacrament Elementary School, New Rochelle (closed) *Cardinal McCloskey School, Ossining *The Caring Place, New Rochelle *The Chapel School, Bronxville *Christ the King School, Yonkers * The Clear View School, Briarcliff Manor *Corpus Christi-Holy Rosary School, Port Chester *Eyes & Ears World, Inc., Yonkers *Ferncliff Manor, Yonkers *

, campuses in Mamaroneck, Larchmont, and Scarsdale *The Garden Road School, Crompond * German School of New York, White Plains *Hackley School, Tarrytown *Hallen Center, New Rochelle *Harvey School, Katonah *Hawthorne Country Day School, Hawthorne *Holy Name School, New Rochelle *Holy Name of Jesus School, Valhalla *Hudson Country Montessori School, New Rochelle *Immaculate Conception School, Irvington *Immaculate Conception School, Tuckahoe *Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Scarsdale *Immanuel Lutheran School, Mount Vernon *

(Lower School), New Rochelle *Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, North Salem *Leake & Watts Children's Home School, Yonkers * The Leffell School, Hartsdale *Martin Luther King Child Development Ctr., New Rochelle *Milestone School, Fleetwood *Mohawk Country Home School, White Plains *Mount Tom Day School, New Rochelle *The Northern Westchester Chinese School, Yorktown *Oakview Prep of SDA, Yonkers *Orchard School - Andrus Child Home, Yonkers *Our Lady of Assumption School, Peekskill *Our Lady of Fatima School, Scarsdale *Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, Elmsford *Our Lady of Sorrows School, White Plains *Our Lady of Victory School, Mount Vernon *Our Montessori School Yorktown, Heights *Resurrection School, Rye *Ridgeway Nursery School & Kindergarten, White Plains *Rippowam Cisqua School, Bedford *Rye Country Day School, Rye *Sacred Heart, Yonkers *Sacred Heart School, Hartsdale *Sacred Heart / Mt. Carmel School - Arts, Mount Vernon *SS John & Paul School, Larchmont *SS Peter & Paul School, Mount Vernon *St. Ann School, Ossining *St. Anthony School, West Harrison *St. Anthony School, Yonkers *St. Augustine School, Ossining *St. Bartholomew School, Yonkers *St. Casimir School, Yonkers *St. Columbanus School, Cortlandt Manor *St. Eugene School, Yonkers *St. Gregory the Great School, Harrison *St. John the Baptist School, Yonkers *St. Joseph School, Bronxville *St. Joseph's School, Croton Falls *St. Jude Habilitation Institute, Tarrytown *St. Mark Lutheran School, Yonkers *St. Mary School, Yonkers *St. Patrick School, Yorktown Heights *St. Peter School, Yonkers *St. Ursula's Learning Center, Mount Vernon *Transfiguration School, Tarrytown *Transitional Learning Center, New Rochelle *UCP of Westchester, New Rochelle *Westchester Area School, New Rochelle *Westchester Day School, Mamaroneck *Westchester Exceptional Children School, Purdys *Westchester School for Special Children, Yonkers *Yeshiva Day School of Lincoln Park, Yonkers *Yonkers Christian Academy, Yonkers

Colleges, universities and vocational schools

Berkeley College Berkeley College is a private for-profit college with campuses in New York, New Jersey, and online. It was founded in 1931 and offers undergraduate and graduate degrees and certificate programs. Berkeley College is accredited by the Middle ...

, White Plains, New York * Fordham University, West Harrison, New York *

Iona University Iona University is a private Roman Catholic university with a main campus in New Rochelle, New York. It was founded in 1940 by the Congregation of Christian Brothers and occupies a campus of in New Rochelle and a campus of in Bronxville, New ...

, New Rochelle, New York * Long Island University, Westchester Graduate Campus, Purchase, New York *

Manhattanville College Manhattanville College is a private university in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 at 412 Houston Street in lower Manhattan, it was initially known as Academy of the Sacred Heart, then after 1847 as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart ...

, Purchase, New York * Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York *

Monroe College Monroe College is a private for-profit college in New York City. It was founded in 1933 and has campuses in the Bronx, New Rochelle and Saint Lucia, with an extension site in Manhattan. The college is named after James Monroe, the fifth pre ...

, New Rochelle, New York *

New York Medical College New York Medical College (NYMC or New York Med) is a private medical school in Valhalla, New York. Founded in 1860, it is a member of the Touro College and University System. NYMC offers advanced degrees through its three schools: the Scho ...

, Valhalla, New York *

Pace University Pace University is a private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1906 by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace as a business school. Pace ...

, Pleasantville, Briarcliff Manor, and White Plains, New York *

Purchase College Purchasing is the process a business or organization uses to acquire goods or services to accomplish its goals. Although there are several organizations that attempt to set standards in the purchasing process, processes can vary greatly betwee ...

, State University of New York, Purchase, New York * St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, New York *

Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (SVOTS) is an Eastern Orthodox seminary in Yonkers, New York. It is chartered under the State University of New York and accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. It is a pan-Eastern Or ...

, Crestwood, Yonkers, New York * Sarah Lawrence College, Yonkers, New York *

Westchester Community College Westchester Community College (WCC) is a public community college in Valhalla, New York, in Westchester County. It is part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system. History New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences becomes Westc ...

, Valhalla, New York

Weekend supplementary schools

The

Japanese Weekend School of New York The Japanese Weekend School of New York (JWSNY; ニューヨーク補習授業校 ''Nyūyōku Hoshū Jugyō Kō'') is a Japanese supplementary school in the New York City metropolitan area. It has its offices in New Roc City in New Rochelle, N ...

, a Japanese weekend supplementary school, holds classes at Port Chester Middle School in

Port Chester Port Chester is a village in the U.S. state of New York and the largest part of the town of Rye in Westchester County by population. At the 2010 U.S. census, the village of Port Chester had a population of 28,967 and was the fifth-most populou ...

Organizations

The Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 ''Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai''), a

nonprofit organization A nonprofit organization (NPO) or non-profit organisation, also known as a non-business entity, not-for-profit organization, or nonprofit institution, is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, in co ...

that operates two Japanese day schools and two weekend school systems in the New York City area, has its headquarters in Rye.連絡先

. Japanese Educational Institute of New York (ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会). Retrieved on April 15, 2015. "150 Purchase Street, Suite 7, Rye, NY 10580 USA"

References

{{Westchester County, New York High Schools School districts in New York (state)