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Enrollment
406
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010001833
GRAHAM SCHOOL
421 E 5TH ST, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10553 · (914) 665-2800 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL406 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 16% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
236 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 | 36 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 27 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 24 | 6% |
| Grade 8 | 44 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 6 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 27% larger than its 8th grade class (44).
Student demographics
49%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
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +0.0pp since 2023
Math
29.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 29.9% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 30.0% |
% 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
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 GRAHAM SCHOOL
GRAHAM SCHOOL's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GRAHAM SCHOOL this school | 406 | 58.1% | 34.8% |
| BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 340 | 62.6% | 43.4% |
| EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 398 | 67.8% | 25.1% |
| MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 301 | 53.8% | 53.7% |
| CECIL H PARKER SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 293 | 64.2% | 27.5% |
| TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 316 | 50.6% | 58.0% |
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 GRAHAM SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,845 of 2,335 | #105 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #2,104 of 2,342 ▼ 86 | #121 of 127 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,892 of 2,343 ▼ 483 | #110 of 127 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 406 | #1,329 of 2,585 | #87 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #632 of 2,338 | #36 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.6% | #1,304 of 2,388 | #87 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #1,199 of 2,534 | #39 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #818 of 1,757 | #29 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
406
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 559
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 406 | 38.4 | 10.6:1 | 58% (236) |
| 2023-24 | 397 | 32.8 | 12.1:1 | 63% (250) |
| 2022-23 | 425 | 34.1 | 12.5:1 | 74% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 409 | 33 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 482 | 37 | 13.0:1 | 77% (369) |
| 2015-16 | 554 | 39 | 14.2:1 | 64% (355) |
| 2010-11 | 620 | 38 | 16.3:1 | 50% (313) |
| 2000-01 | 714 | 45 | 15.9:1 | 55% (396) |
| 1990-91 | 559 | 41 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GRAHAM SCHOOL.
About GRAHAM SCHOOL
GRAHAM SCHOOL is an elementary school in MOUNT VERNON, New York, and it is part of MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school serves pre-K through 8. Enrollment is 406 students.
District-wide, MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT has 16 schools and 6,654 students.
The share of Black students at GRAHAM SCHOOL is 67%, a majority. The remaining students are 25% Hispanic and 5% White. Census figures show Westchester County is about 14% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 49, compared with 70 nationally.
GRAHAM SCHOOL reports a ratio of 10.6 students per teacher, from 38.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Lunch program data show 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 20 points above the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County.
On the allk12 Grade, GRAHAM SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 16% of New York public elementary schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for GRAHAM SCHOOL is 53.6%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 34.8%.
Census data for Westchester County show the median household earns about $118,976 a year, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Public schools in Westchester County number 255, with about 140,968 students.
Measured in a straight line, PELHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from GRAHAM SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, GRAHAM SCHOOL is 8th of 9 on proficiency.
GRAHAM SCHOOL has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 406, close to the 409 recorded in 2020-21. The ratio was 12.4:1 in 2020-21 and 10.6:1 in 2024-25.
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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 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
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOLElementary · 398 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
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOLElementary · 398 students
Nearby schools
- PELHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL0.4 mi · 705
- PELHAM MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL0.5 mi · 852
- EDWARD WILLIAMS SCHOOL0.5 mi · 398
- COLONIAL SCHOOL0.6 mi · 296
- SIWANOY SCHOOL0.7 mi · 275
- BENJAMIN TURNER ACADEMY0.8 mi · 340
Frequently asked questions
About GRAHAM SCHOOLHow many students attend GRAHAM SCHOOL?
GRAHAM SCHOOL enrolls approximately 406 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does GRAHAM SCHOOL serve?
GRAHAM SCHOOL serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at GRAHAM SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at GRAHAM SCHOOL is approximately 10.6:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at GRAHAM SCHOOL?
At GRAHAM SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 5% White, 25% Hispanic, 67% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is GRAHAM SCHOOL in?
GRAHAM SCHOOL is part of MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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