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ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE 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 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL
ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a roomy intermediate school in NEW ROCHELLE, New York, operated by NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 1,122 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 111% above that benchmark.
NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 9,837 students. ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 17% Black, 7% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 76% 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 higher than Westchester County's rate of about 38%.
After controlling for student poverty, ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 49.1%.
In the area at large, 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%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.
TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 66.4%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 6%: 1,190 students in 2018 compared to 1,122 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 64% to 71% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.
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