NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL

NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a roomy senior high in NEW ROCHELLE, New York, part of NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 3,047 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 356% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 10 schools in NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (9,837 students total), NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL records that 55% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 21% Black, 19% White, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL records 217 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 59% 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 meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.4%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +2.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Westchester County put median household earnings sit near $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is DANIEL WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 64.5%.

NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOL operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 3,485 students in 2018 compared to 3,047 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 47% to 55% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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