CHURCH STREET SCHOOL

CHURCH STREET SCHOOL is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in WHITE PLAINS, New York, part of WHITE PLAINS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, teacheing 597 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 35% above typical.

Across the 7 schools in WHITE PLAINS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (6,782 students total), CHURCH STREET SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, CHURCH STREET SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder breaks down as 13% White, 11% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CHURCH STREET SCHOOL logs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CHURCH STREET SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 43% of students at CHURCH STREET SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, CHURCH STREET SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.4%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of -12.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Westchester County put 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%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), CHURCH STREET SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GEORGE WASHINGTON SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CHURCH STREET SCHOOL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.7%.

CHURCH STREET SCHOOL operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHURCH STREET SCHOOL has contracted 10%, going from 662 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 57% to 65%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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