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Enrollment
689
Elementary
DISTRICT 618 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361824001649
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL
250 MURRAY AVE, LARCHMONT, NY 10538 · (914) 220-3700 · Westchester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL689 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
15.0:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
2%
14 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 107 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (107) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
84.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
91.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 91 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 84.0% | 91.0% |
| 2023-24 | 77.0% | 88.0% |
% 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
84.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL's state test result (84.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL this school | 689 | 2.0% | 84.4% |
| CHATSWORTH AVENUE SCHOOL LARCHMONT | 652 | 5.5% | 85.4% |
| BRONXVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRONXVILLE | 688 | 4.5% | 84.0% |
| NORMAN J LEVY LAKESIDE SCHOOL MERRICK | 644 | 6.4% | 75.8% |
| COMAN HILL SCHOOL ARMONK | 575 | 2.6% | N/A |
| BIRCH LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSAPEQUA PARK | 696 | 6.3% | 50.8% |
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 MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.4% | #107 of 2,335 | #14 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 91.0% | #124 of 2,342 ▲ 22 | #11 of 127 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 84.0% | #168 of 2,343 ▼ 19 | #27 of 127 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 689 | #288 of 2,585 | #10 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #2,031 of 2,338 | #111 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.1% | #1,755 of 2,388 | #127 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 2.0% | #2,514 of 2,534 | #131 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #1,239 of 1,757 | #53 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
689
-30 (-4%) vs 2020
+23% since 1990-91, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 689 | 46 | 15.0:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2023-24 | 712 | 48 | 14.8:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2022-23 | 703 | 45 | 15.6:1 | 2% (14) |
| 2020-21 | 719 | 47 | 15.3:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2017-18 | 754 | 47.7 | 15.8:1 | 1% (8) |
| 2015-16 | 723 | 43 | 16.8:1 | 1% (10) |
| 2010-11 | 705 | 47 | 15.0:1 | 1% (4) |
| 2000-01 | 673 | 39 | 17.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 562 | 38 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL.
About MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL is a large elementary school that serves part of LARCHMONT, New York. The grade span is kindergarten through 5, and enrollment is 689 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
Besides MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL, MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 other schools. The district enrolls 5,520 students.
Roughly 80% of students at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL are White. Other groups include 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 5% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County residents are about 52% White. Pick two students at random and there is a 35% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.0:1 at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL, with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 2.1 above the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 2%. Among public schools in Westchester County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
allk12 grades MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL an A. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate on state tests of 84.4% is 10.1 points above the 74.3% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Westchester County (population about 999,677), the median household income is $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. There are 255 public schools in Westchester County, enrolling about 140,968 students in all.
CENTRAL SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.9 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL. On state test proficiency, MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL ranks 2nd in a group of 8 nearby schools.
Under the NCES locale system, MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 30 fewer students in 2024-25.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome 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 MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MAMARONECK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,764 students
- HOMMOCKS SCHOOLMiddle · 1,284 students
- CHATSWORTH AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 652 students
- MAMARONECK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 611 students
- CENTRAL SCHOOLElementary · 520 students
Other schools in LARCHMONT
- HOMMOCKS SCHOOLMiddle · 1,284 students
- CHATSWORTH AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 652 students
- CENTRAL SCHOOLElementary · 520 students
Other Murray Avenue schools
One other US public school is named Murray Avenue. MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Murray Avenue SchoolHuntingdon Valley, PA · 652 students
Nearby schools
- CENTRAL SCHOOL0.9 mi · 520
- HENRY BARNARD SCHOOL0.9 mi · 435
- MAMARONECK HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,764
- ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,012
- CHATSWORTH AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 652
- HOMMOCKS SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,284
Frequently asked questions
About MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL?
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 689 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL serve?
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL is approximately 15.0:1 (46 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL are roughly 80% White, 7% Hispanic, 0% Black, 5% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL?
MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL is overseen by MAMARONECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.