PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL

PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is a reasonably sized secondary school in PEARL RIVER, New York, part of PEARL RIVER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 904 students in grades 8 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in PEARL RIVER UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (2,148 students total), PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL lists that White students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL shows 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 20% of students at PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Rockland County (around 48%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 71.6%, a residual of +4.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Rockland County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,959 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL is one of 66 public schools in Rockland County (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students).

EVANS PARK SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 72.4%.

PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PEARL RIVER HIGH SCHOOL has decreased 10%, going from 1,003 students in 2018 to 904 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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