CROSS HILL ACADEMY

CROSS HILL ACADEMY is an intermediate school of tight-knit scale in YONKERS, New York, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 328 students in grades 3 through 8. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 24,376 students. CROSS HILL ACADEMY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, CROSS HILL ACADEMY shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest reads as 25% Black, 4% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, CROSS HILL ACADEMY logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 75% of students at CROSS HILL ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, CROSS HILL ACADEMY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.3%; this one delivers 35.1%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate median household earnings sit near $118,976, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), CROSS HILL ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: YONKERS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CROSS HILL ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, CROSS HILL ACADEMY comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

CROSS HILL ACADEMY operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. CROSS HILL ACADEMY's enrollment has edged down 52% since 2018, when it stood at 687 (now 328). Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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