OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL

OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL is a 9-12 campus of expansive scale in OSSINING, New York, run under OSSINING UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 1,577 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 136% larger than the state mean of about 668.

Within OSSINING UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,959 students, OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 16% White, 9% Black, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 132 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 56.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is PARK SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 65.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OSSINING HIGH SCHOOL has ticked up 4%, going from 1,514 students in 2018 to 1,577 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 56% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.9:1 today.

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