JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary campus in NEW ROCHELLE, New York, overseen by NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 500 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 10 schools in NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (9,837 students total), JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 79%; the rest breaks down as 11% Black, 5% White, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 42.8%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Westchester County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.

JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has shrank 10%, going from 556 students in 2018 to 500 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 67% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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