Yonkers School Closings Today — Live Status & Delays (New York)

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How Yonkers School Closings Are Announced

Yonkers school closings today are the search a lot of Westchester County parents run first thing on a stormy morning, and for good reason — Yonkers Public Schools (YPS) is New York’s fourth-largest city school district, serving roughly 24,000 students across close to 40 schools. When YPS decides to close or delay, the district posts the decision on the homepage of yonkerspublicschools.org, broadcasts it on the district’s own cable channel (Channel 75, WDMC-TV), and sends it out through the district’s Emergency Notification email list, which subscribed families typically receive by around 5:45 a.m. on the day of a closure.

YPS also relies on the New York City TV market to get the word out quickly: WABC-7 Eyewitness News, WNBC-4, WCBS-2, and WNYW-Fox 5 all run closing lists during winter storms, and News 12 Westchester covers Yonkers and neighboring districts specifically, since it’s the only station dedicated full-time to Westchester County news. When a storm is forecast well in advance, YPS aims to announce a closure the evening before; for fast-developing conditions like an overnight ice event, the call is more often made in the very early morning hours before the first buses run.

Weather Risks That Trigger School Closures in Yonkers

• Nor’easters and winter storms: Yonkers sits in the Hudson Valley corridor and regularly gets hit by nor’easters that can drop a foot or more of snow in a single system, snarling the city’s hilly, densely built streets.
• Ice storms and black ice: A relatively small amount of freezing rain can glaze Yonkers’ steep neighborhood streets and sidewalks, which is often enough on its own to trigger a delay or closure even without heavy snow accumulation.
• Extreme cold and wind chill: Arctic outbreaks that push wind chills into the single digits or below can lead to closures or shortened outdoor-activity schedules, particularly for students who walk to neighborhood schools.
• Flash flooding: Heavy rain events — including remnants of tropical systems moving up the East Coast — have caused significant flooding in Westchester County in recent years and can affect bus routes and building access.
• Hazardous air quality from wildfire smoke: Smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires has closed Yonkers schools in past summers when regional air quality alerts reached unhealthy levels.
• Power outages: High winds from winter storms or summer thunderstorms can knock out electricity to school buildings, which may force a closure even after snow or rain has stopped.

Frequently Asked Questions About Yonkers School Closings

How early does Yonkers Public Schools announce school closures?

For storms that are forecast well in advance, Yonkers Public Schools typically announces a closing or delay the evening before. For fast-moving or overnight weather, the decision is usually made in the very early morning, with the district’s Emergency Notification emails going out by around 5:45 a.m. on the day of the closure.

What’s the difference between a closure and a delayed opening in Yonkers?

A closure means school is cancelled district-wide for the day and all classes, activities, and after-school programs are called off. A delayed opening means the school day starts later than usual — often one or two hours — to give crews more time to clear roads and sidewalks, with the regular schedule (including dismissal time) usually resuming as normal once school starts.

Do all Yonkers-area schools close at the same time?

Yonkers Public Schools makes a single district-wide decision that applies to all of its schools at once, rather than closing individual buildings separately. Because this page also tracks nearby Westchester County districts — Mount Vernon, Greenburgh Central, and Bronxville — it’s possible for one district to close while a neighboring district stays open or delays instead, since each district makes its own independent call.

Which TV stations report Yonkers school closings?

News 12 Westchester, WABC-7 Eyewitness News, WNBC-4, WCBS-2, and WNYW-Fox 5 are the main stations that run Yonkers-area school closing lists during winter weather. This page checks all of them, along with the official Yonkers Public Schools website, so you don’t have to flip between sources.

How often is this page updated?

Status checks run automatically every 15 minutes under normal conditions, and every 5 minutes during active weather alerts, so the information reflects the latest available district and TV-station reporting.

Why might Yonkers close while New York City public schools stay open?

Yonkers is a separate city and a separate school district from New York City, immediately north of the Bronx, and it makes its own independent closure decisions. Because Yonkers has hillier terrain and a smaller road-clearing fleet than NYC, it isn’t unusual for Yonkers Public Schools to close or delay on a day when NYC DOE schools remain open, or vice versa.

Yonkers Public Schools — School Roster

High Schools

• Yonkers Middle High School
• Charles E. Gorton High School
• Lincoln High School
• Riverside High School for Engineering and Design
• Roosevelt High School – Early College Studies
• Saunders Trades and Technical High School
• Robert Halmi Sr. Academy of Film and Television
• Barack Obama School for Social Justice

Middle Schools

• Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School

Elementary & K-8 Schools

Yonkers Public Schools operates 39 schools district-wide; the list below covers the confirmed elementary and K-8 buildings. Verify the complete, current roster at yonkerspublicschools.org.

• Casimir Pulaski School
• Cesar E. Chavez School
• Cross Hill Academy
• Enrico Fermi School for Performing Arts
• Eugenio María de Hostos MicroSociety School
• Family School 32 / William Boyce Thompson School
• Justice Sonia Sotomayor Community School
• Kahlil Gibran School
• Yonkers Montessori Academy
• Martin Luther King Jr. Academy
• Montessori School 27
• Montessori School 31
• Museum School 25
• Paideia School 24
• Paideia School 15
• Patricia A. DiChiaro School
• PEARLS Hawthorne School
• Robert C. Dodson School
• Rosemarie Ann Siragusa School 14
• Ella Fitzgerald Academy
• Las Hermanas Mirabal Community School
• School 16
• School 17
• School 21
• School 22
• School 23
• Westchester Hills School 29
• School 30
• School 5
• Yonkers Early Childhood Academy