EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is a 6-8 campus of reasonably sized scale in EASTCHESTER, New York, one of the schools within EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 695 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 31% above that benchmark.

Within EASTCHESTER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,941 students, EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 16% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 3% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.9%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +1.3 points.

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

EASTCHESTER SENIOR HIGH 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 EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 68.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at EASTCHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL has contracted 15%, going from 820 students in 2018 to 695 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 61% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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