ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL

ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the substantial junior highs in NEW ROCHELLE, New York, part of NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,012 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 91% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 9,837 students; ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 34% White, 22% Black, 6% Asian, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports 104 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 62.8%, a residual of +1.4 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Westchester County put the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 70.6%.

ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 1,232 students in 2018 compared to 1,012 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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