GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of medium-sized scale in NEW ROCHELLE, New York, operated by NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 640 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 10 schools operated by NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 9,837 students overall.

Looking at the student body, GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 30% Hispanic, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.5%; this one delivers 59.5%.

In the surrounding community, Westchester County reports that median household income runs about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

QUAKER RIDGE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 72.8%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 13%: 734 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 24% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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