The New York State Education Department (NYSED) divides the state into nine Joint Management Team (JMT) Regions, excluding New York City.^[1] Each JMT contains one or more Regional Information Centers (RIC), which contain one or more Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), and each BOCES supports several school districts.

The majority of school districts are independent governments, and those are counted as separate governments by the U.S. Census Bureau. Five are not and are under the authority of their respective municipalities: Buffalo, New York City, Rochester, Syracuse, and Yonkers.^[2]

The table below is sorted by either the school district, number of students, county, BOCES, RIC and JMT. Some school districts are not part of BOCES; they are appended with "(not BOCES)".

• Boards of Cooperative Educational Services
• List of high schools in New York (state)
• List of Long Island public school districts and schools
• New York City DOE District 22, abolished in 2002

The list of school districts in each BOCES area is taken from the individual BOCES website.

• New York State Education Department
• School District Index for The NYS Administrators Listing Archived 2010-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
• List of New York School Districts websites
• School Districts in New York State