DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized K-5 school in NEW ROCHELLE, New York, run under NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 496 students, covering grades K through 5.

DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 10 schools operated by NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 9,837 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 36% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 22% Black, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.7%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Westchester County shows median household earnings sit near $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

The closest other public school is COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.9%.

DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 497 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 26% to 32% over that span.

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