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EDUCATION
Rye High School
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Above: Rye City School District was No. 8 nationally on Niche.com’s 2016 top public- schools list; (opposite page) Westchester’s Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School (left) and Rockland’s Franklin Avenue School are two of only 18 National Blue Ribbon schools in the state.
chools throughout Westchester and the Lower lin Avenue School in Pearl River (Rockland) were two of Hudson Valley region are always listed at or near only 18 schools from New York State to earn the U.S. the top in national rankings ranging from U.S. News Department of Education’s National Blue Ribbon distinc-
and World Report to Niche.com. Our institutions of higher tion in 2014.
learning boast famous alumni, including Facebook founder Throughout the county, expenditures per pupil are sub- Mark Zuckerberg, who attended Ardsley High School and stantial as is the prevlance of experienced faculty members.
took graduate courses at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry; Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., commander-in-chief, United States Central Command from 1988-1991, who graduated from West Point Academy in Highland Falls; journalist Barbara Walters, who graduated from Sarah Law- rence College in Bronxville; and writer Aaron Sorkin, who graduated from Scarsdale High School, 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 in the nation for 2016. Meanwhile, Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School in Croton-on-Hudson and Frank-
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 for 2014. It also has strong academics with a reported average SAT score of 1,535, surpassing both the New York State and national averages. Carmel High School in Carmel (Putnam) has been a familiar name on the list of America’s best high schools, according to Newsweek and the Washington Post.
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