CENTRAL SCHOOL

CENTRAL SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary campus in LARCHMONT, New York, part of MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 520 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 5,520 students. CENTRAL SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, CENTRAL SCHOOL records that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 19% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, CENTRAL SCHOOL has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CENTRAL SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.7%; this one delivers 74.5%.

In the surrounding community, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which CENTRAL SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: HOMMOCKS SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CENTRAL SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 75.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTRAL SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 520 students in 2018 to 520 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 70% to 64%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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