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CARRIE E TOMPKINS 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 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 15 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL
Set in CROTON ON HUDSON, New York, CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community, run under CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 585 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 443.
CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 1,555 students overall.
On the student-mix side, CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL lists that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.
Looking at school resources, CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 68.6%.
In the broader community, census data for Westchester County shows median household income runs about $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL is one.
CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.
CARRIE E TOMPKINS SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 591 students in 2018 compared to 585 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 16% to 20% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.
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