HIGHVIEW SCHOOL

HIGHVIEW SCHOOL operates as a modestly sized elementary-level community in HARTSDALE, New York, overseen by GREENBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 257 students spanning grades 2 through 3. Enrollment runs roughly 42% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

HIGHVIEW SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by GREENBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that instructs 1,626 students overall.

On the student-mix side, HIGHVIEW SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 21% Black, 13% White, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at HIGHVIEW SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HIGHVIEW SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.5%, the actual is 57.5%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Westchester County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 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), HIGHVIEW SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HIGHVIEW SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, HIGHVIEW SCHOOL comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. HIGHVIEW SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 6% since 2018, when it stood at 272 (now 257). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 36% to 21%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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