CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL

CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized primary schools in MOUNT VERNON, New York, operated by MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 293 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 443.

MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 6,654 students; CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 70% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 22% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.4%; CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL posts 27.5%, -23.9 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is REBECCA TURNER ACADEMY, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 315 (now 293). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 85% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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