PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 1072 ELM ST, in PEEKSKILL, New York, PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL is a large four-year high school that serves 1,178 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 76% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 3,809 students overall.

On the student-mix side, PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 14% Black, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 39.3%, a residual of -17.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 12%: 1,054 students in 2018 compared to 1,178 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 62% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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