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LIVING IN WESTCHESTER AND THE HUDSON VALLEY | RELOCATION & MOVING GUIDE
EDUCATION
LearSn Here Succeed Here
Above: Historic chools throughout Westchester and the Lower in the nation for 2016. Meanwhile, Carrie E. Tompkins Sarah Lawrence Hudson Valley region are always listed at or near Elementary School in Croton-on-Hudson and Frank- College boasts the top in national rankings ranging from U.S. lin Avenue School in Pearl River (Rockland) were two of a long list of News and World Report to Niche.com. Our institu- only 18 schools from New York State to earn the U.S.
illustrious alumni, tions of higher learning boast famous alumni, including
Department of Education’s National Blue Ribbon distinc- tion just a couple of years ago.
Throughout the county, expenditures per pupil are sub- stantial as is the prevlance of experienced faculty members. SAT scores in the county regularly exceed state and nation- al averages, and many Westchester high schools approach 100-percent college enrollment among graduates.
Bronxville boasted a 100 percent four-year graduation rate and an average SAT score of 1,865, while offering 20 Advanced Placement courses, making it one of the most challenging high schools in the state according to a recent study by the Washington Post. Monroe-Woodbury High School in Central Valley (Orange) was voted fourth in USA Today’s Best Boys’ Sports Programs. It also has strong academics with a reported average SAT score of 1,535, surpassing both the New York State and national aver- ages. Carmel High School in Carmel (Putnam) has been a
including award- winning filmmakers J.J. Abrams and Aaron Sorkin, designer Vera Wang and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel. Opposite page: Hastings High School and Briarcliff High School were recently ranked among the nation’s best.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who attended Ardsley High School and took graduate courses at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry; Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., command- er-in-chief, United States Central Command from 1988- 1991, who graduated from West Point Academy in High- land Falls; journalist Barbara Walters, who graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville; writer Aaron Sorkin, who graduated from Scarsdale High School and filmmaker J.J. Abrams, who is an alumnus of Sarah Lawrence College, just to name a few.
PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS
Edgemont Junior-Senior High School is perenially among the nation’s top schools, coming in as Niche.com’s No. 1 public-school district in the U.S. in 2015. That same publication ranked Rye City School District No. 8