PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the intimate senior highs in PLEASANTVILLE, New York, overseen by PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 559 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 3 schools in PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,603 students total), PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 14% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 67.8%; actual is 92.5%, +24.7 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding 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%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 79.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 592 students in 2018 compared to 559 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 today.

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