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Yonkers schools are basically all magnet, due to federal desegregation order, but has two excellent public schools, Pearls Hawthorne and Yonkers High. Pearls Hawthorne grants entrance by examination, and Yonkers High is IB curriculum only.
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
~William Shakespeare (As You Like It Act II, Scene VII)
You have to go through a lottery process and "ballot" for a school. We live two blocks from a good elementary, and didn't get in for K. DS instead got into another school not near our home with a greatschools rating of 2. We're sending him to catholic school.
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