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BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 98 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 97% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 73% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL
Set in ARMONK, New York, BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL is a reasonably sized senior high, one of the schools within BYRAM HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 740 students across grades 9 through 12.
Across the 4 schools in BYRAM HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,336 students total), BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 80%; the rest comes out to 9% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL lists 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 7% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 72.6%; actual is 97.0%, +24.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: COMAN HILL SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 79.6%.
BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outlying location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BYRAM HILLS HIGH SCHOOL has declined 7%, going from 799 students in 2018 to 740 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 90% to 80%.
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