Yonkers Public Schools

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Yonkers Public Schools is a school district that serves all of Yonkers, New York, United States. It employs 2,052 teachers and has a population of 25,022 students. is governed by a mayorally appointed Board of Trustees.

Contents 1 Organization 2 Schools 2.1 Secondary schools 2.1.1 High schools 2.1.2 Middle schools 2.2 K-8 schools 2.3 Primary schools 2.3.1 PreKindergarten-7 2.3.2 PreKindergarten-6 2.3.3 PreKindergarten-5 3 Former schools 4 External links 5 Notes

[edit] Organization

The school district is organized and governed according to New York State Education Law. The Board of Education is the governing body of the school district. It consists of nine unpaid trustees, appointed by the mayor for five year terms. The trustees submit a budget to the city government, but have no taxing authority of their own. The Superintendent of Schools serves "subject to the pleasure of the Board of Education"^[1]for up to five years. As the chief executive of the school district, he supervises and directs all other employees, makes decisions regarding curriculum and examination, and has a non-voting seat on the Board.

[edit] Schools

All schools are located in the city of Yonkers.

[edit] Secondary schools

[edit] High schools

• Gorton High School
• Lincoln High School
• Roosevelt High School
• Saunders Trades and Technical High School
• Yonkers High School
• Riverside High School for Engineering and Design phased replacement of Museum Middle School
• Center for Continuing Education
• Hudson River Academy Alternative High School Program

[edit] Middle schools

• Emerson Middle School
• Commerce Middle School
• Mark Twain Middle School
• Yonkers Middle School♥
• Museum Middle School (Now Riverside High School for Engineering and Design)

[edit] K-8 schools

• Westchester Hills School 29
• Robert C. Dodson School
• Enrico Fermi School for the Performing Arts
• PEARLS Hawthorne School, a pre-kindergarten through 8th grade elementary school named after Nathaniel Hawthorne. PEARLS is an acronym standing for Program for Early And Rapid Learners. The principal, as of 2007, is Majorie Brown.
• Casimir Pulaski School

[edit] Primary schools

[edit] PreKindergarten-7

• School 5
• School 23
• Family School 32
• Paideia School 15
• Scholastic Academy for Academic Excellence

[edit] PreKindergarten-6

• Montessori School 11
• Montessori School 27
• Montessori School 31

[edit] PreKindergarten-5

• School 9
• School 13
• School 16
• School 17
• School 21
• School 22
• School 30
• Cedar Place School
• Eugenio Maria de Hostos Microservice School
• Patricia A. DiChiaro School
• Foxfire School
• Kahlil Gibran School
• Martin Luther King, Jr. High Tech & Computer Magnet School
• Museum School 25
• Paideia School 24
• Rosemarie Ann Siragusa School

[edit] Former schools

• Museum Middle School (Campus is now used by Riverside High School for Engineering and Design)

[edit] External links

• Yonkers Public Schools

[edit] Notes

1. ^ N.Y. Educ. Law § 2565.