Westchester County, New York, in the United States, contains 40

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, 118 private schools and 14 colleges/universities. According to the 2018 rankings provided by the education website

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, taking into account public comments, 28 of the top 100 school districts 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 *

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, United States. The Bedford Central School District is composed of seven schools - Fox Lane High ...

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. Cha ...

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 West ...

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 The Elmsford School District, officially known as the Elmsford Union Free School District, is a public school district that serves approximately 980 students in Elmsford, New York in Westchester County. The Superintendent of Schools is Dr. Marc P ...

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 * 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 * Mount Pleasant Central School District * 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 *

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 Pelham Public Schools or the Pelham Public School District, formally the Pelham Union Free School District, is a school district headquartered in Pelham, New York. It serves Pelham, which includes Pelham Manor and the Village of Pelham. , the ...

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 * 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, New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state i ...

Private schools

;High Schools * Archbishop Stepinac High School, White Plains * Blessed Sacrament-St. Gabriel High School, 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 has ...

senior high, Scarsdale * German School of New York, White Plains * Hackley School, Tarrytown *Hallen Center, New Rochelle * The Harvey School, Katonah * Iona Preparatory School (Upper School), New Rochelle * John F. Kennedy Catholic High School, Somers * The Karafin School, Inc., Somers * Keio Academy of New York, 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 Westches ...

, Dobbs Ferry *

The Montfort Academy The Montfort Academy is an American private, Roman Catholic high school in Mt. Vernon, New York Mount Vernon is a city in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is an inner suburb of New York City, immediately to the north of the ...

, 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 Institu ...

, 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 Sacred Heart High School may refer to: Canada *Sacred Heart High School (Ottawa), Ontario *Sacred Heart Catholic High School (Newmarket), Newmarket, Ontario * Sacred Heart Catholic High School (Walkerton), Walkerton, Ontario * Sacred Heart High S ...

, Yonkers *

Salesian High School A Salesian school is an educational institution run by the Roman Catholic Salesian Congregation of Saint John Bosco (or Don Bosco), and one that uses his methods. Salesian schools are dedicated to young people in an educational and formative envir ...

, New Rochelle *

School of the Holy Child School of the Holy Child, established in 1904, is an American all-girls', Catholic, independent, college-preparatory school for grades 5 through 12, located in Rye, New York. The school is guided by the educational philosophy of Cornelia Conn ...

, Rye *

Thornton Donovan School The Thornton-Donovan School (TD) was founded as the New Rochelle School and Kindergarten in New Rochelle, New York. It was founded by Judge Martin Jerome Keogh in 1901. The first teacher and headmistress was Emily Scott Thornton, a Philadelphia ...

, 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 sch ...

, New Rochelle *

Westchester Hebrew High School Westchester Hebrew High School (WHHS) is a private Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Mamaroneck, a village in Westchester County, New York, United States. History Westchester Hebrew High School (WHHS) was established in 1971 on part of (toge ...

, 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 The Scarborough Day School was a private school in Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. Frank and Narcissa Cox Vanderlip established the school in 1913 at their estate, Beechwood. The school, a nonsectarian nonprofit college prep ...

, 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 * Iona Preparatory School (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, White Plains, New York *

Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ...

, West Harrison, New York * Iona University, New Rochelle, New York *

Long Island University Long Island University (LIU) is a private university with two main campuses, LIU Post and LIU Brooklyn, in the U.S. state of New York. It offers more than 500 academic programs at its main campuses, online, and at multiple non-residential. LIU ...

, Westchester Graduate Campus, Purchase, New York * Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York * Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York * Monroe College, New Rochelle, New York * New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York * Pace University, Pleasantville, Briarcliff Manor, and White Plains, New York * Purchase College,

State University of New York The State University of New York (SUNY, , ) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York. It is one of the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States. Led by c ...

, Purchase, New York *

St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie St. Joseph's Seminary and College, sometimes referred to as Dunwoodie after the Yonkers, New York neighborhood it is located in, is the major seminary of the Archdiocese of New York.Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the Uni ...

, Yonkers, New York * Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, Yonkers, New York *

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

, Yonkers, New York * Westchester Community College, 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.

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

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.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

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