FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in HASTINGS ON HUDSON, New York, FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized middle-grades school, run under HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It serves 520 students across grades 5 through 8.

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,598 students. FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 68%. Beyond that, the school shows 16% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 4% of students at FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.7%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Across the wider county, Westchester County reports that median household earnings sit near $118,976, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. FARRAGUT MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 517 (now 520). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 12% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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