ROSALYN YALOW CHARTER SCHOOL

The Rosalyn Yalow Charter School is a K-5 grade school in District 7 of the Bronx, which opened September 1, 2015 with 211 K-1 students. Now in our ninth year, Yalow serves 466 K-5 students. It honors Nobel Laureate Rosalyn S. Yalow (1921-2011), a physicist and the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine (1977). Dr. Yalow was a lifelong Bronx resident, raising two children there, where at the Bronx VA hospital she crafted her Nobel award-winning research in radioimmunoassay, a method initially used to measure insulin in the blood and expanded to cover many substances of biologic interest... Rosalyn Yalow Charter School is accepting transfer students for kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade... On April 23, 2020, New York State Interim Education Commissioner Shannon Tahoe identified the Rosalyn Yalow Charter School as one of 582 high achieving schools from across New York State as Recognition Schools. Rosalyn Yalow is now ranked among the top 13% of the 4,782 public..