Education in Westchester County
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Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...

, contains 48 public school districtshttp://westchestergov.com/ed/district.htm, 118 private schools and 14 colleges/universities.

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.






  • Ardsley Union Free School District
  • Bedford Central School District
  • Blind Brook-Rye School District
  • Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District
  • Bronxville Union Free School District
    Bronxville Union Free School District
    Bronxville Union Free School District is a public school district in Bronxville, Westchester County, New York. In 2007, 1569 students were enrolled in the district's schools. It is located at 177 Pondfield Road, Bronxville, New York 10708....

  • Byram Hills Central School
  • Chappaqua Central School
  • Croton Harmon Union Free School District
  • Dobbs Ferry UFS
  • Eastchester Union Free School District
  • Edgemont Union Free School District - Greenburgh
  • Elmsford Union Free School District
    Elmsford 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....

  • Greenburgh Central School
  • Harrison Central School
  • Hastings Central School
  • Hendrick Hudson Central School
  • Irvington Union Free School District
  • Katonah Lewisboro Union Free School District
  • Lakeland Central School District - Shrub Oak
  • Mamaroneck Union Free School District

  • Mount Pleasant Central School
  • Mount Vernon City School
  • New Rochelle City Schools
  • North Salem Central School
  • Ossining Union Free School
  • Peekskill City School
  • Pelham Union Free School
  • Pleasantville Union Free School District
  • Pocantico Hills Central School
  • Port Chester - Rye Union Free School District
  • Rye City Schools
  • Rye Neck Union Free School District
  • Scarsdale Union Free School District
    Scarsdale Public Schools
    The Scarsdale Public School District is a public school district located in Scarsdale, New York. The district enrollment is 4,593 students in grades K-12 in seven schools. The district superintendent is Michael V. McGill. The Schools aim to provide an intellectually powerful and humane education....

  • Somers Central School District
  • Tarrytown Union Free School District
  • Tuckahoe Union Free School District
  • Valhalla Union Free School District
  • White Plains City Schools
    White Plains Public Schools
    The White Plains Public School District is a public school district located in White Plains, New York. The district enrollment is 6,901 students in 8 schools in grades Pre-K - 12. The district superintendent is Dr...

  • Yonkers Public Schools
    Yonkers Public Schools
    Yonkers Public Schools is a school district that serves all of Yonkers, New York, USA. It is governed by a mayorally appointed Board of Trustees.-Organization:...

  • Yorktown Central School



This list excludes Special Act Grade Organization districts, which overlap the districts listed above.

Private schools

High Schools





  • Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel
    Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel
    Academy of Our Lady of Good Counsel is an all-girls, private, Roman Catholic high school in White Plains, New York. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York....

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

    , White Plains
  • Blessed Sacrament-St. Gabriel High School
    Blessed Sacrament-St. Gabriel High School
    Blessed Sacrament-St. Gabriel High School is a co-educational, private, Roman Catholic high school in New Rochelle, New York in Westchester County. The school is a result of the merger of Blessed Sacrament and St. Gabriel into one co-educational institution...

    , New Rochelle
  • Daytop Village Secondary School, Hartsdale
  • German School of New York, White Plains
  • Hackley School
    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 wealthy philanthropist Mrs. Caleb Brewster Hackley, Hackley was intended to be a Unitarian alternative to the mostly Episcopal boarding...

    , Tarrytown
  • Hallen Center, New Rochelle
  • The Harvey School
    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, 100-acre campus and has an annual budget of $10.9M. AP courses in biology, American history, calculus, chemistry, computer science, English,...

    , Katonah
  • Iona Preparatory School
    Iona Preparatory School
    Iona Preparatory School is an all-boys National School of Excellence Catholic high school located in New Rochelle, NY in suburban Westchester County. Named for the Scottish island of Iona, the school was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1916...

    , New Rochelle
  • John F. Kennedy Catholic High School, Somers
  • The Karafin School, Inc., Somers
  • Keio Academy of New York, Purchase
  • Maria Regina High School
    Maria Regina High School
    Maria Regina High School, commonly referred to as Maria, is a private, Catholic all-girls high school located in Hartsdale, New York. The college preparatory school was founded in 1957 by the Sisters of the Resurrection.-Mission and Philosophy:...

    , Hartsdale

  • The Masters School
    The Masters School
    The Masters School, known as "Masters", is a private, coeducational boarding school and day college preparatory school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Its campus is located near Manhattan in the Hudson Valley in Westchester County...

    , Dobbs Ferry
  • New York School for the Deaf, White Plains
  • Our Lady of Victory Academy
    Our Lady of Victory Academy
    Our Lady of Victory Academy is a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic high school in Dobbs Ferry, New York.-Background:Our Lady of Victory Academy was established in 1961...

    , Dobbs Ferry
  • Rye Country Day School
    Rye Country Day School
    Rye Country Day School, or Rye Country Day or RCDS, is an independent, co-educational college preparatory school located in Rye, New York. Its Upper School , Middle School , and Lower School enroll a total of 886 students on its 26-acre campus...

    , Rye
  • Sacred Heart High School
    Sacred Heart High School (Yonkers, New York)
    Sacred Heart High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Yonkers, New York. It is in the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. It is the only Catholic high school in Yonkers.-History:Sacred Heart was opened in 1923....

    , Yonkers
  • Salesian High School
    Salesian High School (New Rochelle, New York)
    Salesian High School, located in New Rochelle, New York, United States, was founded in 1920 as a private Roman Catholic secondary school for young men in grades 9 through 12. Owned and administered by the Salesian Society of St. John Bosco, a religious order of priests and brothers, Salesian High...

    , New Rochelle
  • School of the Holy Child
    School of the Holy Child
    School of the Holy Child is an independent, college-preparatory, Roman Catholic school for girls in Rye, New York in Westchester County. It is located within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Founder of the order of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus and its schools, Cornelia Connelly...

    , Rye
  • Solomon Schecter School of Westchester, Hartsdale
  • Soundview Preparatory School
    Soundview Preparatory School
    Soundview Preparatory School is a coed private preparatory school that serves grades 6-12. It is located in Yorktown Heights, NY. It was founded in March 1989 by its Headmaster W. Glyn Hearn after a group of families came forward seeking an alternative school...

    , Mount Kisco
  • Thornton Donovan School
    Thornton Donovan School
    The Thornton-Donovan School 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 Miss Emily Thornton, a Philadelphia native educated at University College Nottingham, now...

    , New Rochelle
  • The Ursuline School
    The Ursuline School
    The Ursuline School is an 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...

    , 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 Clearview School, Scarborough
  • Corpus Christi-Holy Rosary School, Port Chester
  • Eyes & Ears World, Inc., Yonkers
  • Ferncliff Manor, Yonkers
  • French-American School of New York
  • 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 Family School, New Rochelle (closed)
  • 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 Grammar School, New Rochelle
  • Leake & Watts Children’s Home School, Yonkers
  • 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 Perpetual Help School, Pelham Manor
  • 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
  • Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, White Plains
  • SS John & Paul School, Larchmont
  • SS Peter & Paul School, Mount Vernon
  • St. Ann School, Yonkers
  • 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. Elizabeth Ann School, Shrub Oak
  • 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, Bedford Village
  • St. Patrick School, Yorktown Heights
  • St. Paul the Apostle, Yonkers
  • St. Peter School, Yonkers
  • St. Theresa School, Briarcliff Manor
  • 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
    Berkeley College is a proprietary higher education institution founded in 1931, specializing in business and professional studies.-Academic programs:...

    , White Plains, New York
  • Concordia College
    Concordia College, Bronxville
    Concordia College is a four-year coeducational liberal arts college located in the village of Bronxville, in Westchester County, New York, United States....

    , Bronxville, New York
  • College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
  • Fordham University
    Fordham University
    Fordham University is a private, nonprofit, coeducational research university in the United States, with three campuses in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St...

    , Graduate Campus, Purchase, New York
  • Iona College
    Iona College (New York)
    Iona College is located in New Rochelle, New York, 20 miles north of Manhattan in suburban Westchester County. The college occupies 35 acres on North Ave. The college also operates a Graduate Center in Pearl River, Rockland County, New York....

    , New Rochelle, New York
  • Long Island University
    Long Island University
    Long Island University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher education in the U.S. state of New York.-History:...

    , Westchester Graduate Campus, Purchase, New York
  • Manhattanville College
    Manhattanville College
    Manhattanville College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college offering undergraduate and graduate degrees, located in Purchase, New York. Founded in 1841 it was known initially as Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart...

    , Purchase, New York
  • Mercy College
    Mercy College (New York)
    Mercy College is a private, non-profit liberal arts college with its main campus in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and satellite locations throughout southeastern New York, including the Bronx, Manhattan, White Plains and Yorktown...

    , Dobbs Ferry, New York
  • Monroe College
    Monroe College
    Monroe College is a proprietary college with campuses in the Bronx and New Rochelle in the U.S. state of New York and in the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia. The college is named after James Monroe, the fifth President of the United States. Mildred King founded the "Monroe School of Business" in...

    , New Rochelle, New York
  • New York Medical College
    New York Medical College
    New York Medical College, aka New York Med or NYMC, is a private graduate health sciences university based in Westchester County, New York, a suburb of New York City and a part of the New York Metropolitan Area...

    , Valhalla, New York
  • Pace University
    Pace University
    Pace University is an American private, co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York.-Programs:...

    , Pleasantville, Briarcliff Manor, and White Plains, New York
  • Purchase College, State University of New York
    State University of New York
    The State University of New York, abbreviated SUNY , is a system of public institutions of higher education in New York, United States. It is the largest comprehensive system of universities, colleges, and community colleges in the United States, with a total enrollment of 465,000 students, plus...

    , Purchase, New York
  • St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie
    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. Its primary mission is to form men for the priesthood in the Catholic Church...

    , Yonkers, New York
  • Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
    Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
    Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary is an Orthodox Christian seminary in Crestwood, New York, in the United States. Although it is under the omophorion of the Metropolitan of the Orthodox Church in America, it is a pan-Orthodox institution, providing theological education to students...

    , Crestwood, Yonkers, New York
  • Sarah Lawrence College
    Sarah Lawrence College
    Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States, and a leader in progressive education since its founding in 1926. Located just 30 minutes north of Midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, in the city of Yonkers, this coeducational college offers...

    , Yonkers, New York
  • Westchester Community College
    Westchester Community College
    Westchester Community College is a public, two-year community college in Valhalla, New York, sponsored by Westchester County, New York, and the State University of New York . The college is one of 30 community colleges affiliated with SUNY....

    , Valhalla, New York
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