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Enrollment
701
High
DISTRICT 910 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192006001
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
201 PALISADE AVE, YONKERS, NY 10703 · (914) 376-8177 · Westchester County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL701 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of New York public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
610 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 58 | 8% |
| Grade 8 | 85 | 12% |
| Grade 9 | 136 | 19% |
| Grade 10 | 136 | 19% |
| Grade 11 | 133 | 19% |
| Grade 12 | 153 | 22% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
50.2%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.9pp since 2023
Math
27.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.2% | 27.3% |
| 2023-24 | 43.3% | 25.2% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE's state test result (26.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE this school | 701 | 87.0% | 26.4% |
| WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN BROOKLYN | 622 | 86.7% | 51.7% |
| UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS SECONDARY SCHOOL-BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE BRONX | 596 | 88.3% | 93.0% |
| HIGH SCHOOL FOR LAW ADVOCACY AND COMMUNITY JUSTICE NEW YORK | 531 | 88.1% | 47.8% |
| LEGACY COLLEGE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 747 | 89.4% | 44.5% |
| ACADEMY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY - A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL FAR ROCKAWAY | 605 | 86.0% | 32.8% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #1,100 of 1,135 | #46 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #916 of 1,109 ▲ 22 | #46 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.2% | #951 of 1,135 ▲ 103 | #47 of 48 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 701 | #358 of 1,216 | #32 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #1,016 of 1,058 | #47 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #361 of 1,070 | #17 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.0% | #303 of 1,167 | #2 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.1% | #456 of 743 | #13 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
701
-24 (-3%) vs 2020
+77% since 2010-11, when it was 396
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 701 | 44.7 | 15.7:1 | 87% (610) |
| 2023-24 | 780 | 48.3 | 16.2:1 | 83% (644) |
| 2022-23 | 807 | N/A | N/A | 89% (716) |
| 2020-21 | 725 | 42 | 17.3:1 | 94% (685) |
| 2017-18 | 771 | 43 | 17.9:1 | 79% (607) |
| 2015-16 | 674 | 45 | 15.0:1 | 88% (593) |
| 2010-11 | 396 | 23 | 17.2:1 | 87% (345) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
About BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is a high school in YONKERS, New York, according to federal school records. The school enrolls 701 students, from grades 7 through 12.
YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is the local district for BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE. It runs 42 schools with 24,376 students.
A majority of students at BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, 60%, are Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 28% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% White, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Westchester County, the Hispanic share is about 27%. By the diversity index, BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE comes in at 56%.
Staffing totals 44.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.7:1. For comparison, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 87%. That is 49 points above the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County.
The allk12 Grade for BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is F. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 2% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE would score about 43.0%. It scores 26.4%, 16.6 points below that figure.
In the county around the school, Westchester County, median household income is about $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is among the 255 public schools in Westchester County.
The school nearest to BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is 7th among 8 schools close by.
Locale data from NCES put BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE had 725 students in 2020-21 and 701 in 2024-25, a 3% decrease. The ratio was 17.3:1 in 2020-21 and 15.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL0.2 mi · 507
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE0.3 mi · 1,127
- SCHOOL 90.4 mi · 278
- ENRICO FERMI SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS0.7 mi · 857
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,068
- GREENBURGH ACADEMY0.8 mi · 136
Frequently asked questions
About BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICEWhat is the total enrollment at BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE enrolls approximately 701 students in grades 07-12.
Is BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE an elementary, middle, or high school?
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is a high school covering grades 07-12.
How many students per teacher at BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
Approximately 15.7:1 students per teacher at BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE.
How diverse is BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE?
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE reports a student body of 4% White, 60% Hispanic, 28% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE public or private?
BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE is a public K-12 school, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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