MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the intimate K-5 schools in SOUTH SALEM, New York, run under KATONAH-LEWISBORO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 359 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by KATONAH-LEWISBORO UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 2,785 students overall.

Demographically, MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 23% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.4%, the actual is 70.0%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate 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 MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: Veterans Park Elementary School, around 3.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 78.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 3% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 359). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 23% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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