New York City, NY (population: 8,459,026) has two catering schools within its city limits. Career Academy of New York, the highest ranked school in the city with a catering program, has a total student population of 563. It is the 3138th highest ranked school in the USA and the 225th highest in the state of New York (#1 is Columbia University in the City of New York).
Catering students from New York City schools who go on to become caterers, professional caterers, food service managers, food service directors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment. For example, there are 11,218,260 people working as food preparation and serving related employees alone in the US, and their average annual salary is $20,880. Also, Meeting and convention planners make on average $48,060 per year and there are about 51,530 of them employed in the US today.
Of the 2 catering schools in New York City, none have a student population over 10k. After taking into account tuition, living expenses, and financial aid, The Art Institute of New York City comes out as the most expensive ($33,682/yr) for catering students, with Career Academy of New York as the lowest, reported at only $22,374/yr.
| Name | State | Population | # of Schools | Avg School Rank | Total Programs | Distance from New York City |
| Brooklyn | NY | - | 46 | 21.7861 | 571 | 1.5 miles |
| Ridgewood | NY | - | 1 | 34.5795 | 2 | 2.8 miles |
| Long Island City | NY | - | 4 | 18.9499 | 59 | 5.2 miles |
| Rego Park | NY | - | 1 | 27.7974 | 9 | 5.6 miles |
| Jackson Heights | NY | - | 1 | 28.2916 | 7 | 6.6 miles |
| Hoboken | NJ | 41,307 | 1 | 72.0499 | 47 | 6.8 miles |
| Jersey City | NJ | 242,594 | 10 | 25.9195 | 190 | 6.9 miles |
| West New York | NJ | 47,282 | 1 | 33.6373 | 6 | 7.2 miles |
| Jamaica | NY | - | 3 | 22.786 | 65 | 7.6 miles |
| Bayonne | NJ | 57,362 | 0 | - | 0 | 8.9 miles |
| Queens | NY | - | 1 | 36.0611 | 122 | 9.3 miles |
| Fresh Meadows | NY | - | 1 | 41.5392 | 2 | 9.5 miles |
| North Bergen | NJ | 59,771 | 0 | - | 0 | 9.5 miles |
| Far Rockaway | NY | - | 2 | 14.0585 | 4 | 10.7 miles |
| Whitestone | NY | - | 1 | 33.134 | 2 | 10.7 miles |
| Staten Island | NY | - | 3 | 40.1655 | 127 | 12.5 miles |
| Newark | NJ | 279,278 | 12 | 22.0426 | 375 | 12.5 miles |
| Bronx | NY | - | 10 | 27.317 | 379 | 13.0 miles |
| Hackensack | NJ | 42,824 | 4 | 27.098 | 27 | 16.3 miles |
| Bloomfield | NJ | 48,995 | 2 | 17.5636 | 34 | 16.3 miles |
| Passaic | NJ | 67,055 | 0 | - | 0 | 16.5 miles |
| Garden City | NY | - | 5 | 29.9653 | 250 | 16.5 miles |
| Hempstead | NY | 54,072 | 4 | 22.5315 | 163 | 16.9 miles |
| Union | NJ | 56,324 | 6 | 24.8766 | 160 | 17.4 miles |
| Clifton | NJ | 78,248 | 4 | 27.5248 | 46 | 17.5 miles |
| Mount Vernon | NY | 68,747 | 8 | 36.4632 | 259 | 17.6 miles |
| South Orange | NJ | - | 1 | 63.933 | 113 | 17.7 miles |
| Montclair | NJ | - | 3 | 25.8703 | 100 | 17.7 miles |
| Kenilworth | NJ | - | 2 | 30.2484 | 7 | 18.4 miles |
| West Orange | NJ | 49,330 | 0 | - | 0 | 18.7 miles |