OAKSIDE SCHOOL

OAKSIDE SCHOOL, a reasonably sized elementary-level community in PEEKSKILL, New York, overseen by PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 554 students, covering grades 2 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 25% above the state mean of about 443.

Within PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 3,809 students, OAKSIDE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, OAKSIDE SCHOOL lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 14% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, OAKSIDE SCHOOL has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, OAKSIDE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.5%; this one delivers 37.3%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Westchester County) logs that median household earnings sit near $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. OAKSIDE SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

The closest other public school is PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, OAKSIDE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 48.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 4%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 554 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 69% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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