PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in PEEKSKILL, New York, PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL is a big junior high, part of PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It caters to 860 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 62% above the state mean of about 531.

Across the 6 schools in PEEKSKILL CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,809 students total), PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 6% White, 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, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.0%; actual is 35.4%, a gap of -21.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Westchester County reports that median household earnings sit near $118,976, 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 PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PEEKSKILL HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. PEEKSKILL MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 724 (now 860). Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 69% to 77%.

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