Enrollment
328
Middle
DISTRICT 434 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192004249
CROSS HILL ACADEMY
160 BOLMER AVE, YONKERS, NY 10703 · (914) 376-8300 · Westchester County
GRADES 03–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.9:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
247 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 7 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
46.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
36.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 46.0% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 30.0% | 32.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
35.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 CROSS HILL ACADEMY
CROSS HILL ACADEMY's state test result (35.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CROSS HILL ACADEMY this school | 328 | 75.3% | 35.1% |
| URBAN INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS BRONX | 361 | 78.7% | 58.7% |
| MOTT HALL COMMUNITY SCHOOL BRONX | 245 | 82.4% | 42.3% |
| TOMPKINS SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL NEW YORK | 290 | 74.5% | 51.2% |
| JHS 50 JOHN D WELLS BROOKLYN | 388 | 85.1% | 70.8% |
| LAWRENCE MIDDLE SCHOOL AT BROADWAY CAMPUS LAWRENCE | 309 | 80.9% | 38.1% |
Matched among New York middle 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 CROSS HILL ACADEMY ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #667 of 766 | #37 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #664 of 768 ▲ 22 | #39 of 40 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.0% | #408 of 768 ▲ 243 | #33 of 40 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #526 of 796 | #35 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #677 of 683 | #40 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.7% | #333 of 688 | #21 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.3% | #263 of 773 | #3 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -52.3% | #18 of 524 | #1 of 30 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
328
-20 (-6%) vs 2020
-66% since 1990-91, when it was 963
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 18.3:1
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 | 328 | 19.3 | 17.0:1 | 75% (247) |
| 2023-24 | 339 | 19.3 | 17.6:1 | 83% (280) |
| 2022-23 | 349 | 21.1 | 16.6:1 | 82% (285) |
| 2020-21 | 348 | 19 | 18.3:1 | 84% (294) |
| 2017-18 | 687 | 46 | 14.9:1 | 68% (465) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 38 | 14.8:1 | 79% (447) |
| 2010-11 | 759 | 43 | 17.6:1 | 54% (409) |
| 2000-01 | 1,458 | 99 | 14.7:1 | 81% (1,186) |
| 1990-91 | 963 | 78 | 12.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CROSS HILL ACADEMY.
About CROSS HILL ACADEMY
CROSS HILL ACADEMY is a small middle school in YONKERS, New York, administered by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Grades offered run from 3 through 8, with 328 students enrolled. For comparison, middle schools in New York average about 531 students.
CROSS HILL ACADEMY falls under YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 42 schools enrolling 24,376 students.
Hispanic students account for 65% of enrollment at CROSS HILL ACADEMY. Smaller groups are 25% Black, 4% White, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Westchester County is roughly 27% Hispanic. CROSS HILL ACADEMY has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
CROSS HILL ACADEMY operates with 19.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 17.0:1. That ratio is over the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. CROSS HILL ACADEMY reports 75% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 37 points above the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County.
allk12 grades CROSS HILL ACADEMY a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, CROSS HILL ACADEMY is 12.2 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 35.1% actual, 47.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Westchester County show that median household income is about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 255 public schools in Westchester County, with a combined enrollment of about 140,968.
The closest other public school is YONKERS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY, less than a tenth of a mile away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, CROSS HILL ACADEMY is 4th of 7 on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
CROSS HILL ACADEMY saw enrollment fall 6% between 2020-21 and 2024-25. The ratio was 18.3:1 in 2020-21 and 17.0:1 in 2024-25.
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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 YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- YONKERS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY0.0 mi · 297
- SCHOOL 160.5 mi · 582
- WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL0.7 mi · 338
- SCHOOL 220.8 mi · 381
- PAIDEIA SCHOOL 241.0 mi · 281
- GREENBURGH ACADEMY1.0 mi · 136
Frequently asked questions
About CROSS HILL ACADEMYHow many students attend CROSS HILL ACADEMY?
CROSS HILL ACADEMY enrolls approximately 328 students in grades 03-08.
What grades does CROSS HILL ACADEMY serve?
CROSS HILL ACADEMY serves grades 03-08.
How many students per teacher at CROSS HILL ACADEMY?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at CROSS HILL ACADEMY.
How diverse is CROSS HILL ACADEMY?
CROSS HILL ACADEMY reports a student body of 4% White, 65% Hispanic, 25% Black, 3% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is CROSS HILL ACADEMY in?
CROSS HILL ACADEMY is part of YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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