LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in CONGERS, New York, one of the schools within CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school educates 441 students in grades K through 5.

CLARKSTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 7,821 students. LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 34% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 7% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Rockland County as a whole is about 62% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 25% of students at LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Rockland County (around 48%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.7%; this one delivers 62.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Rockland County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,959, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Rockland County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), of which LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: LIBERTY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 2.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 63.3%.

LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 3%, going from 428 students in 2018 to 441 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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