Scarsdale Public Schools

More than 90% of K-12 aged children residing in the village attend the public schools.

[9] 65% of students are white, 20% are Asian or Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander, 7% are Hispanic or Latino, 6% are Multicultural, and 1% are African American.

[10] The increase was chiefly due to a large number of Japanese businesspersons assigned to the New York City area moving to Scarsdale,[12] and also due to a large number of houses being occupied by "empty nesters".

[10] Fox Meadow adjusted to its new population by giving new Japanese students American "buddies," establishing English-Japanese handbooks, and a parent-teacher association group oriented to Japanese parents.

Elsa Brenner of The New York Times wrote that "The school system remains tough to beat and is clearly doing all it can to stay that way.