Schools by Neighborhood

Every neighborhood has its own school culture. Start where you live.

Upper West Side

Progressive, play-based, and family-dense between the parks.

Traditional, established, and home to the city's oldest independents.

Downtown, design-forward, and tight-knit.

Daycare- and preschool-forward, for working families.

Historic, progressive, and walkable west of Broadway.

Galleries, Hudson River piers, and a growing young-family scene.

Leafy squares, Flatiron energy, and classic nursery schools.

The Bronx's hilltop cluster of elite K–12 independents.

Brownstone Brooklyn's historic independent schools.

A leafy academic enclave around Columbia and the Cathedral.

A fast-growing west-side scene for young working families.

International, residential, and built for working families.

A fast-growing downtown enclave of young families by the water.