CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL

CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL is one of the modestly sized high schools in CROTON ON HUDSON, New York, part of CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 507 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 24% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within CROTON-HARMON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,555 students, CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL lists that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 below typical.

With demographic context factored in, CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.5%, the actual is 73.0%, a residual of +3.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Westchester County put median household earnings sit near $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 53.6%.

CROTON-HARMON HIGH SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 513 students in 2018 compared to 507 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 77% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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