[1] It is one of the two Japanese day schools operated by the Japanese Educational Institute of New York (JEI; ニューヨーク日本人教育審議会 Nyūyōku Nihonjin Kyōiku Shingi Kai), a nonprofit organization which also operates two Japanese weekend school systems in the New York City area.

It has 59 students in grades 1–9 as of August 2022[3] with a student-teacher ratio of 4 to 1[citation needed].

The goal of the school is to prepare them for the Japanese educational system when the students eventually return to Japan.

[4] The Japanese School of New York established a branch campus in New Jersey on April 1, 1992, with grades one through four.

That month, the school employed three Americans as teachers, while Japanese people had other teaching positions.