HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a close-knit primary school in NANUET, New York, operated by NANUET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 314 students, covering grades 3 through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 29% below that benchmark.
Across the 4 schools in NANUET UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,103 students total), HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 37% White, 11% Asian, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Rockland County's rate of about 48%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.2%, the actual is 62.4%, a residual of -0.7 points.
In the area at large, Rockland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,959 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Rockland County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), of which HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
Nearest neighbor: GEORGE W MILLER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.1%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. HIGHVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 5% since 2018, when it stood at 332 (now 314). Hispanic enrollment moved from 29% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.
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