FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 239 WATCH HILL RD, in CORTLANDT MANOR, New York, FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact elementary campus that works with 214 students (grades pre-K through 2), overseen by HENDRICK HUDSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 52% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in HENDRICK HUDSON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,173 students total), FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 23% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.6%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of -14.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Westchester County shows median household earnings sit near $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

BLUE MOUNTAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FURNACE WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 10%, going from 238 students in 2018 to 214 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 68% to 48%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 in 2025.

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