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Enrollment
398
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010001843
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL
9 UNION LN, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10553 · (914) 665-5070 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL398 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 5% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
270 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 34 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 14 | 4% |
| Grade 8 | 31 | 8% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is 110% larger than its 8th grade class (31).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
26.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
24.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 24.3% |
| 2023-24 | 23.0% | 29.2% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-24.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL's state test result (25.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL this school | 398 | 67.8% | 25.1% |
| GRIMES SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 330 | 71.8% | 34.4% |
| BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 340 | 62.6% | 43.4% |
| PS 153 HELEN KELLER BRONX | 440 | 72.5% | 61.1% |
| GRAHAM SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 406 | 58.1% | 34.8% |
| ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 4 BRONX | 357 | 74.5% | 96.6% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.1% | #2,153 of 2,335 | #118 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #2,200 of 2,342 ▼ 171 | #124 of 127 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #2,196 of 2,343 ▼ 110 | #125 of 127 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 398 | #1,372 of 2,585 | #91 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,177 of 2,338 | #67 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.5% | #1,345 of 2,388 | #91 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.8% | #1,014 of 2,534 | #23 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.7% | #1,233 of 1,757 | #52 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
398
-50 (-11%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 470
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 398 | 33.8 | 11.8:1 | 68% (270) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 32.5 | 12.5:1 | 75% (303) |
| 2022-23 | 473 | 40 | 11.8:1 | 85% (402) |
| 2020-21 | 448 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 86% (385) |
| 2017-18 | 436 | 30 | 14.5:1 | 89% (390) |
| 2015-16 | 449 | 27 | 16.6:1 | 69% (310) |
| 2010-11 | 493 | 30 | 16.4:1 | 77% (382) |
| 2000-01 | 525 | 35 | 15.0:1 | 69% (364) |
| 1990-91 | 470 | 36 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL.
About EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL sits in MOUNT VERNON, New York, and is classified as an elementary school. The school enrolls 398 students in pre-K through 8.
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL is run by MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT, whose 16 schools enroll 6,654 students.
More than half of enrollment at EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL is Black: 67%. Other groups make up 28% Hispanic, 2% White, and 2% multiracial. Westchester County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school's share is higher. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 47%.
The school lists 33.8 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 68% of the student body. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Westchester County is 38%.
On the allk12 Grade, EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL lands at D, ahead of 5% of New York public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL in the bottom 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 24.9 points below it (25.1% actual, 50.0% predicted).
For the population of Westchester County, median household income comes to about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Westchester County's 255 public schools enroll about 140,968 students and include EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL.
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL ranks 9th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 25.1% against a local average of 47.2%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 398 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 448. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.2:1 in 2020-21, and 11.8:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Other schools in MOUNT VERNON
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Nearby schools
- CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 293
- GRAHAM SCHOOL0.5 mi · 406
- REBECCA TURNER ACADEMY0.5 mi · 98
- BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY0.5 mi · 340
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTS0.5 mi · 427
- AMANI PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.5 mi · 314
Frequently asked questions
About EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL?
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL enrolls approximately 398 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL serve?
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL.
How diverse is EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL?
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 28% Hispanic, 67% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL?
EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL is overseen by MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.