Enrollment
340
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010004345
BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY
624 S 3RD AVE, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10550 · (914) 665-5150 · Westchester County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL340 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 38% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
213 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 27 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 22 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 20 | 6% |
| Grade 7 | 24 | 7% |
| Grade 8 | 68 | 20% |
| Ungraded | 23 | 7% |
This year's kindergarten class (29) is 57% smaller than its 8th grade class (68).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
48.4%
NY avg 57.4% . +21.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 21 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 48.4% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 27.0% |
% 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
43.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY
BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY's state test result (43.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY this school | 340 | 62.6% | 43.4% |
| CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 293 | 64.2% | 27.5% |
| GRAHAM SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 406 | 58.1% | 34.8% |
| EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 398 | 67.8% | 25.1% |
| MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 301 | 53.8% | 53.7% |
| GRIMES SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 330 | 71.8% | 34.4% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #1,463 of 2,335 | #84 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.4% | #1,507 of 2,342 ▲ 586 | #93 of 127 ▲ 28 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #1,521 of 2,343 ▼ 221 | #92 of 127 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 340 | #1,734 of 2,585 | #108 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.3:1 | #85 of 2,338 | #2 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.5% | #1,549 of 2,388 | #110 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.6% | #1,107 of 2,534 | #31 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.7% | #96 of 1,757 | #1 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
340
+88 (+35%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 552
Student : Teacher
8.3:1
was 9.7:1
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 | 340 | 40.9 | 8.3:1 | 63% (213) |
| 2023-24 | 371 | 42.8 | 8.7:1 | 64% (239) |
| 2022-23 | 196 | 20.4 | 9.6:1 | 71% (139) |
| 2020-21 | 252 | 26 | 9.7:1 | 87% (219) |
| 2017-18 | 583 | 40 | 14.6:1 | 87% (505) |
| 2015-16 | 422 | 33 | 12.8:1 | 75% (317) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 32 | 13.6:1 | 83% (361) |
| 2000-01 | 562 | 48 | 11.7:1 | 43% (243) |
| 1990-91 | 552 | 50 | 11.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY.
About BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY
BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY is a low-enrollment elementary school in MOUNT VERNON, New York, under MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 340 students. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 23% lower.
A total of 16 schools make up MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 6,654 students enrolled.
The student body at BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY is 73% Black. Other reported shares: 22% Hispanic and 2% White. Westchester County's residents are about 14% Black, 60 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 42, compared with 70 nationally.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 8.3:1. The school has 40.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is 4.5 students per teacher. In all, 63% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County, the school's rate is higher.
Among New York public elementary schools, BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY is -8.5 points: 43.4% actual, 52.0% predicted.
The school's county is Westchester County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $118,976, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Westchester County's 255 public schools enroll about 140,968 students and include BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, REBECCA TURNER ACADEMY, is less than a tenth of a mile. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY places 4th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY had a net gain of 88 students, or 35%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 9.7:1 in 2020-21, and 8.3:1 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 MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Other schools in MOUNT VERNON
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Nearby schools
- REBECCA TURNER ACADEMY0.0 mi · 98
- CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL0.3 mi · 293
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL0.5 mi · 398
- PS 680.6 mi · 493
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 40.7 mi · 452
- GRAHAM SCHOOL0.8 mi · 406
Frequently asked questions
About BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMYHow large is BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY?
BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY enrolls approximately 340 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY serve?
BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY is approximately 8.3:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY?
Student demographics at BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY are roughly 2% White, 22% Hispanic, 73% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY in?
BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY is part of MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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