PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15

PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 operates as a mid-sized elementary campus in YONKERS, New York, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 583 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 sits 32% above that benchmark.

YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 42 schools in total, collectively educating 24,376 students. PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 36% White, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 46% of students at PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -11.4 points.

Across the wider county, Westchester County reports that the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 is one.

The closest other public school is KAHLIL GIBRAN SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 583 (now 583). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 58% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 today.

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