Editing White Plains, New York (section)

==Education==
===Public schools===
The [[White Plains Public School System]], with a 2006 enrollment of more than 6,000 students, maintains five elementary schools (grades K–5), two middle schools (Eastview for grade 6, Highlands for grades 7–8) and one high school (9–12), as well as auxiliary facilities, including a pre-kindergarten program, a community school (grades 7–12), adult and continuing education, and a program for school-age patients at [[New York-Presbyterian Hospital]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Strategic Plan |url=http://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/41129472144543/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=49862 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206231623/http://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/41129472144543/blank/browse.asp?a=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&c=49862 |archive-date=December 6, 2009 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=White Plains Public Schools}}</ref> whose campus is located in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital |url=http://www.nyp.org/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090207080935/http://childrensnyp.org/ |archive-date=February 7, 2009 |access-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref>

Since 1988 the district has operated under a Controlled Parents' Choice Program,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Controlled Parents' Choice Program |url=http://www.wpcsd.k12.ny.us/41129472144330/site/default.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317090356/http://www.wpcsd.k12.ny.us/41129472144330/site/default.asp |archive-date=March 17, 2005 |website=www.wpcsd.k12.ny.us}}</ref> whereby the parents of elementary school children can select the school which their child attends based on factors other than proximity to the school.

The five elementary schools, in addition to teaching core competencies, have different educational focuses including science and technology, communication arts and global understanding. Two of the elementary schools offer bilingual education where children are taught in both English and Spanish. Both English speaking and Spanish speaking families can choose to be entered into a lottery for a place in the bilingual classes.

[[White Plains High School]], built in the late 1950s (when it moved from The Highlands School) on a {{cvt|72|acre|adj=on}} campus (formerly [[James Cash Penney]]'s 72-acre Westchester Estate, until he moved to Westport, Connecticut in the 1940s), serves public school students in grades 9–12.<ref>{{Cite web |title=White Plains High School |url=http://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/wphs/site/default.asp |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110403075759/http://www.whiteplainspublicschools.org/wphs/site/default.asp |archive-date=April 3, 2011 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=Whiteplainspublicschools.org}}</ref> The school has a swimming pool that overlooks a small valley that holds the track and football field. The White Plains Recreation Department works with the schools to offer programs.

The district is governed by a seven-member Board of Education, elected at-large for staggered three-year terms. A school superintendent reports to the Board.

===Parochial or private schools===
* [[Archbishop Stepinac High School]] on Mamaroneck Avenue in the Gedney area
* Good Counsel Academy, an all-girls Catholic high school for more than a century operated by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion on North Broadway, and Good Counsel Elementary (Pre-K through Grade 8, coeducational) located on the same campus close to the Pace Law School, have both closed, due to declining enrollments, and the aging and increased medical costs for the nuns of the order.,
* Our Lady of Sorrows Elementary School in the Gedney area
* [[German School New York]] on Partridge Road
* [[Solomon Schechter School of Westchester]] Lower School (Grades K-5)
* Windward School (for children with language-based learning disabilities)

===Colleges and universities===
* [[Fordham University]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 28, 2003 |title=Fordham.Edu |url=http://www.fordham.edu/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203092123/http://www.fordham.edu/ |archive-date=December 3, 2013 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=Fordham.Edu}}</ref> Westchester Campus is home to Fordham's Graduate Schools of Business Administration, Education, Social Service, and Religion and Religious Education.
* [[Pace University]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pace University in the City of New York and Westchester County &#124; Pace University |url=http://www.pace.edu/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203192132/http://www.pace.edu/ |archive-date=December 3, 2020 |access-date=April 4, 2011 |publisher=Pace.edu}}</ref> The Pace University School of Law is located on North Broadway in White Plains. This campus originally belonged to Good Counsel College, later named the College of White Plains (1972–1976). The College of White Plains merged with Pace University in 1976. Pace formerly had a Graduate School campus in an office building on Martine Avenue in downtown White Plains. That location has closed.
* [[The College of Westchester]], formerly known as the Westchester Business Institute
* [[Berkeley College]] (''closed 2021'')<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 15, 2021 |title=Berkeley College to shut down White Plains campus |url=https://longisland.news12.com/berkeley-college-to-shut-down-white-plains-campus |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713042709/https://longisland.news12.com/berkeley-college-to-shut-down-white-plains-campus |archive-date=July 13, 2021 |access-date=July 12, 2021 |website=News 12 Long Island}}</ref>
* [[Mercy College (New York)|Mercy College]]