MILTON SCHOOL

MILTON SCHOOL is a modestly sized elementary-level community in RYE, New York, run under RYE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 320 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so MILTON SCHOOL sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

MILTON SCHOOL is one of 5 schools operated by RYE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 2,792 students overall.

On the student-mix side, MILTON SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Hispanic. 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, MILTON SCHOOL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MILTON SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MILTON SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 74.7%; this one delivers 86.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Westchester County) shows that median household income runs about $118,976, 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 MILTON SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is OSBORN SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around MILTON SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MILTON SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 79.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 397 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 84% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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