Several students displayed pepper spray-like symptoms, respiratory issues, and shortness of breath.

[8] Yonkers High School offers Advanced Placement courses and participates in the International Baccalaureate program.

This was the second time in a few days that a school in Westchester County was evacuated due to an unfounded threat.

[10] On January 6, 2023, a 16-year-old student was stabbed and assaulted in the bathroom of the school following a dispute over a young woman.

[12] Alumni include the actor and comic Sid Caesar and John Howard Northrop, recipient of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.