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Yonkers Schools 2026 Report Card
Grades are based on 2024–25, the most recent reported year. Our summary is here — keep reading to find out more.
Elementary & middle school · grades 3–8
High school
Regents exams · share of test-takers passing (65+)
Passing means a 65 — and mastery is rarer: just 4% of Algebra I test-takers scored 85+ (state: 12%). Only 9% of the Class of ’25 earned the tougher Advanced Regents diploma — statewide, 31%.
Comment: Nearly every student gets a diploma, but Regents scores are low and absenteeism is a major problem.
Source: NYSED, data.nysed.gov, 2024–25. State math is 57% in NYSED’s report-card tables (used here for both Yonkers and the state); the state’s press release reports 55%. Grades assigned by Ledger editors; rubric in the full report card.
Subject by Subject
Reading & Writing
State ELA tests, grades 3–8
NY State
Math
State math tests grades 3–8, and the Algebra I Regents
NY State
Teacher’s comments
Scores are rising, but math slips further behind every year a student stays in the system — from the low 50s in grades 3–4 to 38% by 8th grade, and a 41% pass rate on the Algebra I Regents. Math is where the district’s recovery has not yet arrived.
High School
Regents exams — share of test-takers scoring 65 or better, 2024–25
NY State
Advanced Regents diplomas, share of each class — the pandemic-waiver spike and collapse (classes of 2019–2025)
Teacher’s comments
In the humanities, Yonkers passes Regents exams at essentially the state rate; on the major June math and science exams it trails by 12 to 16 points, and by more on the small legacy administrations not shown here. The lone exception is Physics — above the state rate, but taken by just 74 students. Passing means a 65; mastery is rarer — just 4% of Algebra I test-takers scored 85 or better, versus 12% statewide. Only one Yonkers graduate in eleven earns the tougher Advanced diploma, versus nearly one in three statewide.
Graduation & Attendance
Class of 2025 cohort · 2024–25 attendance
Graduation — Excellent
| Yonkers graduation rate (4-year) | 90% |
| New York State | 85.5% |
| New York City | 81.2% |
| Dropout rate (state: 5%) | 1% |
Attendance — Unsatisfactory
| High schoolers chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days) |
52.2% |
| Grades 1–8 chronically absent | 38.5% |
| New Rochelle, high school | 37.2% |
| Mount Vernon, high school | 23.3% |
Graduation rate by class — June rates through ’18, August cohort rates from ’19 (NYSED annual releases)
Teacher’s comments
Yonkers gets students to a diploma better than any big district in New York — and the 90% rate held firm this year even as pandemic-era exam waivers expired and New York City’s rate tumbled. But a majority of high schoolers are chronically absent, the worst mark among comparable Westchester districts, and it shows up in the Regents results above.
The District — Facts on File
No grade — the numbers behind the report card
| Students, 2024–25 (down 11% since 2016) | 22,646 |
| Low-income | 74% |
| Hispanic or Latino | 63% |
| Learning English | 15% |
| Students with disabilities | 21% |
| 2025–26 budget (≈37% from the city; most of the rest is state aid) | $809M |
| Spending per student (2023–24) | $27,845 |
| Median teacher pay (2023–24) | $146,259 |
| Students per teacher | 16 : 1 |
| State accountability rating | Target District |
Enrollment — down 2,700 students (11%) since 2016
Teacher’s comments
A shrinking, high-need student body; some of the best-paid teachers in New York; spending that is enormous by national standards and below average for this state. The state’s “Target District” rating means at least one school is flagged for extra support. In the tables below, Local = local support (baseline); CSI = comprehensive support and improvement; TSI = targeted support and improvement. Tables scroll sideways on phones; best viewed on a larger screen.
Find Your School
Every Yonkers public school, 2024–25 · reading/math = share of tested students at grade level, student-weighted across grades
High schools & secondary campuses
| School | Students | Grad rate | Chronically absent | State rating |
| Barack Obama School | 698 | 89% | 63.5% | CSI |
| Gorton | 1,062 | 89% | 68.9% | Local |
| Lincoln | 1,166 | 92% | 47.9% | Local |
| Riverside | 920 | 94% | 64.3% | Local |
| Robert Halmi Sr. Academy | 153 | — | 56.5% | Local |
| Roosevelt Early College | 1,089 | 91% | 59.2% | Local |
| Saunders Trades & Technical | 1,036 | 99% | 31.7% | Local |
| Yonkers | 1,111 | 94% | 42.4% | Local |
| Yonkers Montessori Academy | 1,176 | 90% | 36.3% | Local |
Elementary, K–8 & middle schools
| School | Students | Reading | Math | Chronically absent | State rating |
| Casimir Pulaski School | 543 | 65% | 71% | 20% | Local |
| Cedar Place Community School | 537 | 40% | 33% | 57.5% | Local |
| Cross Hill Academy | 328 | 46% | 36% | 35.6% | Local |
| Ella Fitzgerald Academy | 436 | 42% | 35% | 41.1% | Local |
| Enrico Fermi School — Performing Arts | 796 | 32% | 32% | 38.5% | Local |
| Eugenio María de Hostos MicroSociety | 534 | 41% | 54% | 39.8% | Local |
| Family School 32 | 526 | 41% | 41% | 44.6% | Local |
| Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community | 374 | 28% | 25% | 33.8% | Local |
| Kahlil Gibran School | 503 | 62% | 59% | 31.8% | Local |
| Las Hermanas Mirabal Community | 556 | 39% | 32% | 44.1% | Local |
| 486 | 32% | 34% | 51.5% | Local | |
| Montessori School 27 | 284 | 75% | 70% | 23% | Local |
| Montessori School 31 | 310 | 49% | 48% | 36.8% | Local |
| Paideia School 15 | 550 | 49% | 48% | 26% | Local |
| Paideia School 24 | 257 | 52% | 57% | 38.8% | Local |
| Patricia A Dichiaro School | 496 | 72% | 77% | 11.6% | Local |
| Pearls Hawthorne School | 776 | 89% | 89% | 16.3% | Local |
| Robert C Dodson School | 687 | 43% | 44% | 38.2% | Local |
| Rosemarie Ann Siragusa School | 452 | 49% | 54% | 26.8% | Local |
| School 16 | 543 | 43% | 40% | 35.8% | Local |
| School 17 | 250 | 46% | 59% | 42.7% | Local |
| School 22 | 345 | 39% | 38% | 46.3% | Local |
| School 23 | 464 | 33% | 31% | 61.6% | Local |
| School 29 | 545 | 45% | 44% | 55.8% | Local |
| School 30 | 508 | 66% | 62% | 26.1% | Local |
| School 5 | 540 | 38% | 31% | 49.5% | TSI |
| William Boyce Thompson School | 320 | 37% | 20% | 36.9% | Local |
| Yonkers Early Childhood Academy | 242 | — | — | 46.5% | Local |
| Yonkers Middle School | 532 | 42% | 47% | 55.3% | Local |
Teacher’s comments
The district average hides a canyon. PEARLS Hawthorne, a test-in magnet, performs at Scarsdale levels (89% at grade level in both subjects); Patricia DiChiaro, School 30 and Casimir Pulaski beat the state average; at the other end, several schools post math rates in the teens and twenties, School 5 and the Barack Obama School carry state improvement flags, and at Gorton and Riverside roughly two of every three students are chronically absent. Which school a child lands in matters as much as which city.
Small schools’ grade-level scores swing year to year; secondary-campus reading/math averages cover only tested grades 3–8. Saunders (grades 9–12) has no 3–8 tests. Yonkers Early Childhood Academy serves grades below testing age. Montessori Academy and PEARLS span elementary and secondary grades.
How The Ledger graded
E — Excellent: clearly better than the New York State average. S — Satisfactory: at or within about 6 points of the state average, or best among comparable urban districts. N — Needs improvement: 7–15 points below the state average. U — Unsatisfactory: more than 15 points below the state average, or a problem affecting a majority of students. Grades were assigned by Ledger editors from the 2024–25 data shown; they are judgments, and the underlying numbers are all here so you can make your own.
Sources: New York State Education Department report cards, enrollment, Regents and graduation data for Yonkers City School District and New York State (data.nysed.gov, retrieved Aug. 2026); NYC rates: NYSED/Chalkbeat; budget: Office of the NYS State Comptroller, 2025–26 Yonkers budget review; teacher pay: SeeThroughNY (2023–24). Grades 3–8 tests were revised in 2018 and 2023 and not given in 2020–21; year-to-year comparisons are approximate, and the 2016–17 values are computed from grade-level results (no combined figure was published that year). “Proficient” means meeting the state’s grade-level standard (Levels 3–4). School-by-school figures are from each school’s NYSED profile page. 2025–26 results: NYSED’s preliminary statewide release (Aug. 5, 2026) shows grades 3–8 ELA at 48%, math 57%; district-level 2025–26 data arrives with the final release, expected early November 2026 — this report card will be updated then. Graduation trend: June rates through the Class of 2018 and August cohort rates from 2019, as published in NYSED’s annual releases; the two measures differ by one to three points. Statewide 2024–25 math: 57% per NYSED’s report-card tables, which we use consistently for Yonkers and the state; the state’s press release reports 55%. School reading/math figures are student-weighted across tested grades. “Local Support (baseline)” is NYSED’s standard category, formally “Local Support and Improvement.”
How this was made. Editors used AI tools to collect and analyze data and to build the report card charts. All editing decisions were made by human editors, who fact-checked the results against the state’s published figures. The Ledger provided the figures to the district before publication; the district did not identify any errors.
Teacher’s comments
The most improved subject on this report card: the district’s best score in the modern testing era, and the gap behind the state average — 18 points in 2018 — is down to six. Still, more than half of Yonkers students are not yet reading at grade level — and preliminary statewide results show reading scores fell back five points on the 2026 tests, so hold the applause until Yonkers’s new numbers arrive in November.