ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL

ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in ARDSLEY, New York, run under ARDSLEY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 790 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 49% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

ARDSLEY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,325 students. ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 21% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Westchester County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 13% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.3%; this one delivers 80.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Westchester County) logs that median household income runs about $118,976, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

GREENVILLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 82.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. ARDSLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 694 (now 790). Over the same period, the White share declined from 59% to 54%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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