Enrollment
293
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010001841
CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL
461 S 6TH AVE, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10550 · (914) 665-5040 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL293 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.0:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
64%
188 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 25 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 26 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 29 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 11 | 4% |
| Grade 7 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 8 | 36 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 39% smaller than its 8th grade class (36).
Student demographics
45%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
30.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 35.0% | 28.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-23.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL
CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL's state test result (27.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL this school | 293 | 64.2% | 27.5% |
| BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 340 | 62.6% | 43.4% |
| GRIMES SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 330 | 71.8% | 34.4% |
| PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 283 | 71.0% | 65.0% |
| SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY ROCHESTER | 306 | 72.9% | 22.9% |
| PS 38 ROSEDALE ROSEDALE | 223 | 66.4% | 63.5% |
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 CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #2,094 of 2,335 | #116 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #2,173 of 2,342 ▼ 83 | #123 of 127 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #2,124 of 2,343 ▼ 578 | #124 of 127 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 293 | #2,039 of 2,585 | #127 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #429 of 2,338 | #21 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.4% | #1,409 of 2,388 | #100 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 64.2% | #1,082 of 2,534 | #29 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.0% | #1,344 of 1,757 | #65 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
293
-17 (-5%) vs 2020
-53% since 1990-91, when it was 622
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 9.4:1
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 | 293 | 29.4 | 10.0:1 | 64% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 272 | 26.2 | 10.4:1 | 64% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 256 | 26.5 | 9.7:1 | 80% (206) |
| 2020-21 | 310 | 33 | 9.4:1 | 89% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 315 | 19 | 16.6:1 | 86% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 312 | 23 | 13.6:1 | 79% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 333 | 31 | 10.7:1 | 97% (322) |
| 2000-01 | 519 | 36 | 14.4:1 | 77% (401) |
| 1990-91 | 622 | 32 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL.
About CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL
Students in MOUNT VERNON, New York, attend CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary school. In all, 293 students attend the school in pre-K through 8. That puts enrollment 34% below the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York.
Within MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is one of 16 schools. The district enrolls 6,654 students.
About 70% of the student body at CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is Black. The remaining students are 22% Hispanic and 4% Asian. Among people living in Westchester County, the Black share is about 14%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL scores 45%.
On staff are 29.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.0:1. Elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1, 2.9 more students per teacher than here. CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 64%. That is higher than the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County.
Among New York public elementary schools, CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL outscored 7%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 51.4% for CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 27.5%. The 23.9-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of New York schools.
In the surrounding county, Westchester County, median household income comes to about $118,976, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county has 255 public schools and about 140,968 students.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, REBECCA TURNER ACADEMY, is the closest to CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 293, compared with 310 in 2020-21.
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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 ACADEMY0.3 mi · 98
- BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY0.3 mi · 340
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL0.4 mi · 398
- BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 40.4 mi · 452
- PS 680.6 mi · 493
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTS0.6 mi · 427
Frequently asked questions
About CECIL H PARKER SCHOOLHow many students attend CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL?
CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 293 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL serve?
CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL?
At CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 22% Hispanic, 70% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL public or private?
CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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