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Enrollment
915
High
DISTRICT 611 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDGEMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361020004509
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
200 WHITE OAK LN, SCARSDALE, NY 10583 · (914) 725-1500 · Westchester County
GRADES 07–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL915 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of New York public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
83 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
1%
5 students
DISTRICT 1% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 155 | 17% |
| Grade 8 | 156 | 17% |
| Grade 9 | 145 | 16% |
| Grade 10 | 141 | 15% |
| Grade 11 | 154 | 17% |
| Grade 12 | 156 | 17% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
Based on grade levels within EDGEMONT UNION FREE 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
88.7%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.9pp since 2023
Math
91.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.7% | 91.0% |
| 2023-24 | 91.6% | 93.7% |
% 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
86.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (86.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 915 | 0.5% | 86.8% |
| WHEATLEY SCHOOL OLD WESTBURY | 689 | 4.4% | 80.9% |
| MANHASSET SECONDARY SCHOOL MANHASSET | 1,031 | 9.9% | 87.8% |
| PLAINVIEW-OLD BETHPAGE/JFK HIGH SCHOOL PLAINVIEW | 1,720 | 15.9% | 83.0% |
| ROSLYN HIGH SCHOOL ROSLYN HEIGHTS | 1,086 | 16.5% | 86.8% |
| WILLIAMSVILLE EAST HIGH SCHOOL EAST AMHERST | 940 | 15.9% | 92.8% |
Matched among New York high 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 EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.8% | #104 of 1,135 | #12 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #34 of 1,109 ▲ 27 | #5 of 48 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.7% | #229 of 1,135 ▲ 2 | #25 of 48 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 915 | #270 of 1,216 | #21 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #525 of 1,058 | #25 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.9% | #159 of 1,070 | #1 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 0.5% | #1,165 of 1,167 | #49 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #644 of 743 | #23 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high 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
915
-76 (-8%) vs 2020
+45% since 1990-91, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 915 | 83 | 11.0:1 | 1% (5) |
| 2023-24 | 908 | 85.8 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 949 | 82.4 | 11.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 991 | 81 | 12.2:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 949 | 73.8 | 12.9:1 | 0% (4) |
| 2015-16 | 906 | 71 | 12.8:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 914 | 76 | 12.0:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2000-01 | 751 | 59 | 12.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 632 | 56 | 11.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school in SCARSDALE, New York, administered by EDGEMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school's enrollment of 915 students covers grades 7 through 12. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is in EDGEMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 1,833 students across 3 schools.
White students are the largest group at EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, with 43% of enrollment. Next come 38% Asian, 10% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. The county population is about 52% White. EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 83 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.0:1. High schools in New York average about 11.0:1, a similar figure. Roughly 1% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 38% for public schools in Westchester County.
allk12 grades EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL an A-. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
The model predicts 74.8% for a school in New York with EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts 86.8%.
Among Westchester County residents, 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 nearest public school is SEELY PLACE SCHOOL, at about 0.7 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 4 nearby schools with scores, including this one, EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 2nd on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The number of students declined from 991 to 915 over 4 years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.0:1, from 12.2:1.
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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 EDGEMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREENVILLE SCHOOLElementary · 527 students
- SEELY PLACE SCHOOLElementary · 391 students
Other schools in SCARSDALE
- SCARSDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,479 students
- SCARSDALE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,083 students
- CASIMIR PULASKI SCHOOLElementary · 579 students
- GREENVILLE SCHOOLElementary · 527 students
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOLElementary · 516 students
- QUAKER RIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 491 students
Nearby schools
- SEELY PLACE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 391
- FOX MEADOW SCHOOL0.9 mi · 516
- SCARSDALE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,479
- GREENVILLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 527
- EDGEWOOD SCHOOL1.3 mi · 405
- GREENACRES SCHOOL1.4 mi · 354
Frequently asked questions
About EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 915 students in grades 07-12.
What age range does EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serve?
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL serves students from grade 07 through grade 12.
How many teachers does EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 83 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.0:1.
What is the student diversity at EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 43% White, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black, 38% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in?
EDGEMONT JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is part of EDGEMONT UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.