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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
813
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192004539
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL
350 HAWTHORNE AVE, YONKERS, NY 10705 · (914) 376-8250 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL813 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of New York public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
52 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
254 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 98 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 79 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 77 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 60 | 7% |
| Ungraded | 25 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (98) is 63% larger than its 8th grade class (60).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
88.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
89.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 90 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 are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.0% | 89.9% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 100.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+23.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 64% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in New York's top 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 PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL's state test result (86.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL this school | 813 | 31.2% | 86.7% |
| PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL BRONX | 742 | 37.3% | 86.9% |
| MAMARONECK AVENUE SCHOOL WHITE PLAINS | 605 | 32.9% | 48.4% |
| PINE TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONROE | 746 | 43.0% | 49.9% |
| EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MEDFORD | 680 | 37.4% | 42.8% |
| RIDGEWAY SCHOOL WHITE PLAINS | 597 | 35.2% | 58.5% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.7% | #72 of 2,335 | #5 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.9% | #140 of 2,342 ▼ 122 | #14 of 127 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.0% | #112 of 2,343 ▼ 46 | #17 of 127 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 813 | #136 of 2,585 | #4 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #2,113 of 2,338 | #115 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.9% | #143 of 2,388 | #3 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.2% | #1,942 of 2,534 | #78 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.7% | #1,300 of 1,757 | #60 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
813
-94 (-10%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 1,079
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 16.5:1
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 | 813 | 52.2 | 15.6:1 | 31% (254) |
| 2023-24 | 795 | 52 | 15.3:1 | 31% (244) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 54.1 | 14.4:1 | 37% (289) |
| 2020-21 | 907 | 55 | 16.5:1 | 39% (353) |
| 2017-18 | 881 | 50 | 17.6:1 | 30% (268) |
| 2015-16 | 907 | 49 | 18.5:1 | 38% (348) |
| 2010-11 | 1,178 | 56 | 21.0:1 | 36% (427) |
| 2000-01 | 929 | 57 | 16.3:1 | 25% (230) |
| 1990-91 | 1,079 | 59 | 18.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL.
About PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is a large elementary school serving families in YONKERS, New York. It educates 813 students in pre-K through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students.
YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 24,376 students in 42 schools, including PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL.
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 44%. Smaller groups are 22% White, 15% Black, 13% Asian, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 27% of Westchester County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 72%.
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL's 52.2 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 15.6:1. For comparison, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 31%.
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 96% of New York public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is among the top 10% of schools in New York. Predicted: 63.5%. Actual: 86.7%.
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is located in Westchester County, where median household income is about $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 255 public schools in Westchester County, with a combined enrollment of about 140,968.
Of nearby public schools, EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS MICROSOCIETY SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.2 miles. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is ahead of the 40.0% nearby average, ranking 1st of 7.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL saw enrollment fall 10% 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 YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- EUGENIO MARIA DE HOSTOS MICROSOCIETY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 590
- MONTESSORI SCHOOL 270.3 mi · 332
- ROBERT HALMI SENIOR ACADEMY OF FILM AND TELEVISION0.4 mi · 155
- CESAR E CHAVEZ SCHOOL0.5 mi · 574
- JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYER COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT0.6 mi · 423
- THOMAS CORNELL ACADEMY0.7 mi · 262
Frequently asked questions
About PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOLHow large is PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL?
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 813 students in grades PK-08.
Is PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
How many teachers does PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL have?
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL employs 52 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.6:1.
How diverse is PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL?
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL reports a student body of 22% White, 44% Hispanic, 15% Black, 13% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL in?
PEARLS HAWTHORNE SCHOOL is part of YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.