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What's the one class at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
539
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192004270
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL
18 ROSEDALE RD, YONKERS, NY 10710 · (914) 376-8580 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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
20.9:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
265 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 | 35 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 56 | 10% |
| Grade 8 | 76 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 49% smaller than its 8th grade class (76).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +10.0pp since 2023
Math
59.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -40.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 40 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 59.8% |
| 2023-24 | 52.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL this school | 539 | 49.2% | 60.0% |
| EAST VILLAGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 477 | 45.1% | 71.3% |
| PS 132 CONSELYEA SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 564 | 45.6% | 77.8% |
| SCHOOL 30 YONKERS | 566 | 55.1% | 59.8% |
| CASIMIR PULASKI SCHOOL SCARSDALE | 579 | 43.4% | 67.0% |
| HELLENIC CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL PARK SLOPE BROOKLYN | 493 | 50.1% | 83.3% |
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 KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #743 of 2,335 | #54 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #1,089 of 2,342 ▼ 1,060 | #75 of 127 ▼ 69 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #871 of 2,343 ▼ 59 | #68 of 127 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #675 of 2,585 | #46 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.9:1 | #2,305 of 2,338 | #137 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.6% | #116 of 2,388 | #1 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.2% | #1,431 of 2,534 | #50 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.0% | #1,657 of 1,757 | #93 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
539
-1 (0%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 398
Student : Teacher
20.9:1
was 23.5:1
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 | 539 | 25.8 | 20.9:1 | 49% (265) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 24 | 21.5:1 | 49% (252) |
| 2022-23 | 506 | 24.1 | 21.0:1 | 57% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 540 | 23 | 23.5:1 | 55% (297) |
| 2017-18 | 550 | 23 | 23.9:1 | 52% (286) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 20 | 27.5:1 | 67% (369) |
| 2010-11 | 431 | 21 | 20.5:1 | 58% (249) |
| 2000-01 | 360 | 22 | 16.4:1 | 56% (202) |
| 1990-91 | 398 | 21 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL.
About KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL is an elementary school in YONKERS, New York, and it is part of YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. A total of 539 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 8. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in New York, enrollment here is 22% higher.
YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL and 41 other schools, with 24,376 students in total.
Hispanic students form the largest group at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL, 37% of enrollment. Next come 32% White, 16% Black, 10% Asian, and 5% multiracial. That compares with about 27% Hispanic among all Westchester County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 73%.
The school employs the equivalent of 25.8 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 20.9:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, lower than at this school. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL is 49%. It compares with 38% for public schools in Westchester County.
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 68% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 56.9%. KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL scores 60.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Westchester County, median household income is about $118,976, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL is among the 255 public schools in Westchester County.
FAMILY SCHOOL 32 is the public school closest to KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 8 on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 540 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 539. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 23.5:1 to 20.9:1.
Community posts for KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- FAMILY SCHOOL 320.4 mi · 562
- PAIDEIA SCHOOL 150.5 mi · 583
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIES0.5 mi · 1,096
- MONTESSORI SCHOOL 310.7 mi · 351
- ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL0.8 mi · 720
- PATRICIA A DICHIARO SCHOOL1.0 mi · 536
Frequently asked questions
About KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL?
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL enrolls approximately 539 students in grades PK-08.
What age range does KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL serve?
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL is approximately 20.9:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL?
At KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 32% White, 37% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL public or private?
KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.