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Enrollment
492
High
DISTRICT 469 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH SALEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362118002991
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL
230 JUNE RD, NORTH SALEM, NY 10560 · (914) 669-5414 · Westchester County
GRADES 06–12HIGH41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL492 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of New York public high schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
70 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
112 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 9 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 10 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 11 | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 12 | 60 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 2% |
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within NORTH SALEM CENTRAL 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
72.1%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.7pp since 2023
Math
71.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 71 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.1% | 71.3% |
| 2023-24 | 68.4% | 71.5% |
% 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
71.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (71.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL this school | 492 | 22.8% | 71.7% |
| PUTNAM VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL PUTNAM VALLEY | 526 | 20.5% | 80.0% |
| PIERSON MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL SAG HARBOR | 501 | 27.5% | 70.5% |
| RYE NECK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL MAMARONECK | 469 | 21.5% | 74.8% |
| CENTER MORICHES HIGH SCHOOL CENTER MORICHES | 511 | 28.4% | 71.7% |
| LOCUST VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL LOCUST VALLEY | 583 | 27.3% | 88.2% |
Matched among New York high 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 NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.7% | #315 of 1,135 | #26 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #239 of 1,109 ▲ 101 | #22 of 48 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.1% | #542 of 1,135 ▲ 125 | #38 of 48 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 492 | #554 of 1,216 | #41 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.0:1 | #22 of 1,058 | #1 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #500 of 1,070 | #31 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.8% | #1,075 of 1,167 | #29 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.1% | #103 of 743 | #2 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high 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
492
-98 (-17%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 477
Student : Teacher
7.0:1
was 8.7:1
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 | 492 | 70.3 | 7.0:1 | 23% (112) |
| 2023-24 | 513 | 68.6 | 7.5:1 | 21% (109) |
| 2022-23 | 547 | 71.5 | 7.7:1 | 20% (107) |
| 2020-21 | 590 | 68 | 8.7:1 | 18% (105) |
| 2017-18 | 675 | 64.6 | 10.4:1 | 11% (76) |
| 2015-16 | 669 | 69 | 9.7:1 | 10% (65) |
| 2010-11 | 750 | 68 | 11.0:1 | 4% (31) |
| 2000-01 | 703 | 61 | 11.5:1 | 2% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 477 | 41 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL.
About NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is a small high school serving families in NORTH SALEM, New York. Total enrollment is 492 students, and the grades served are 6 through 12. It has 26% fewer students than the average for high schools in New York (about 668).
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is in NORTH SALEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district with 937 students across 2 schools.
The largest group at NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is White students, at 66%. The remaining students are 25% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian, and 2% Black. Among people living in Westchester County, the White share is about 52%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL scores 49%.
Its ratio of 7.0:1 is based on 70.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 23%. For comparison, public schools in Westchester County average 38%.
On the allk12 Grade, NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL lands at B, ahead of 64% of New York public high schools.
A school with NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 66.6%. NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL scores 71.7%, 5.0 points above that line.
Looking at the county, Westchester County, median household income comes to about $118,976, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. The county's public schools total 255, with about 140,968 students.
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is about 0.6 miles from PEQUENAKONCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, its nearest public school. There are 6 other public schools within five miles. NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL's average proficiency of 71.7% compares with 65.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Fringe: in rural territory close to an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL had a net loss of 98 students, or 17%. The school's ratio dropped from 8.7:1 to 7.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 NORTH SALEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PEQUENAKONCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 445 students
Other schools in NORTH SALEM
- PEQUENAKONCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 445 students
Nearby schools
- PEQUENAKONCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 445
- Scotts Ridge Middle School3.7 mi · 548
- Ridgefield High School3.9 mi · 1,411
- Ridgebury Elementary School4.4 mi · 322
- Barlow Mountain Elementary School4.8 mi · 377
- Scotland Elementary School4.9 mi · 318
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL?
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 492 students in grades 06-12.
Is NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 06-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 7.0:1 (70 FTE teachers).
How diverse is NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL?
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 66% White, 25% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL in?
NORTH SALEM MIDDLE SCHOOL/HIGH SCHOOL is part of NORTH SALEM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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