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Does MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
507
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192004248
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL
135 LOCUST HILL AVE, YONKERS, NY 10701 · (914) 376-8470 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL507 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 20% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
18.6:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
406 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 | 19 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 59 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 2 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 15% smaller than its 8th grade class (59).
Student demographics
53%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
32.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
34.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.0% | 34.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 31.0% |
% 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
33.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% 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 MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL's state test result (33.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL this school | 507 | 80.1% | 33.4% |
| SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON ROCHESTER | 567 | 79.5% | 17.6% |
| PS/IS 45 HORACE E GREENE BROOKLYN | 440 | 85.9% | 35.4% |
| PS 104 BAYS WATER (THE) FAR ROCKAWAY | 542 | 86.9% | 35.2% |
| SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 522 | 87.4% | 91.3% |
| ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX TREMONT PARK BRONX | 592 | 84.6% | 86.1% |
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 MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.4% | #1,906 of 2,335 | #111 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #2,026 of 2,342 ▼ 32 | #116 of 127 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #2,081 of 2,343 ▼ 90 | #122 of 127 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 507 | #795 of 2,585 | #55 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.6:1 | #2,273 of 2,338 | #132 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.0% | #1,107 of 2,388 | #73 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.1% | #769 of 2,534 | #7 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #1,611 of 1,757 | #90 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
507
+23 (+5%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
18.6:1
was 19.4:1
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 | 507 | 27.3 | 18.6:1 | 80% (406) |
| 2023-24 | 453 | 25.5 | 17.8:1 | 80% (362) |
| 2022-23 | 447 | 26.5 | 16.9:1 | 92% (410) |
| 2020-21 | 484 | 25 | 19.4:1 | 91% (439) |
| 2017-18 | 522 | 31 | 16.8:1 | 75% (389) |
| 2015-16 | 528 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 91% (482) |
| 2010-11 | 509 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 79% (400) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 40 | 14.3:1 | 71% (406) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 32 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL.
About MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL
The public elementary school MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is located in YONKERS, New York. The school has 507 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 8.
YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL and 41 other schools, with 24,376 students in total.
The largest group at MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 57%. Other students are 37% Black and 3% multiracial. By comparison, Westchester County residents are about 27% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 53%.
Its staff includes 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 18.6 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is lower. MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 80%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County, the school's rate is higher.
On the allk12 Grade, MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 20% of New York public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 33.4% actual against 45.5% predicted.
In the wider Westchester County area, the median household earns about $118,976 a year, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Across Westchester County, 255 public schools serve about 140,968 students.
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is about 0.2 miles from BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 36.3% on proficiency, and MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is below that at 33.4%.
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 507, compared with 484 in 2020-21.
The MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE0.2 mi · 701
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE0.4 mi · 1,127
- ENRICO FERMI SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS0.5 mi · 857
- SCHOOL 90.5 mi · 278
- THOMAS CORNELL ACADEMY0.6 mi · 262
- SCHOOL 230.7 mi · 498
Frequently asked questions
About MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOLHow large is MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL?
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL enrolls approximately 507 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL serve?
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is approximately 18.6:1 (27 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL?
At MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 57% Hispanic, 37% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL in?
MLK JR HIGH TECH & COMPUTER MAGNET SCHOOL is part of YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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