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Enrollment
495
Middle
DISTRICT 534 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362331004745
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
40 ROMER AVE, PLEASANTVILLE, NY 10570 · (914) 741-1450 · Westchester County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL495 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of New York public middle schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
70 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 127 | 26% |
| Grade 6 | 123 | 25% |
| Grade 7 | 115 | 23% |
| Grade 8 | 122 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 2% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL→PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
78.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +12.0pp since 2023
Math
100.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +21.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 22 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 66.0% | 78.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
75.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 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 PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (75.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 495 | 14.1% | 75.2% |
| PEARL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL PEARL RIVER | 501 | 16.6% | 67.0% |
| PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT SCHOOL CROTON ON HUDSON | 463 | 12.7% | 77.0% |
| OAKDALE-BOHEMIA MIDDLE SCHOOL OAKDALE | 564 | 15.8% | 64.1% |
| SOMERS MIDDLE SCHOOL SOMERS | 553 | 14.1% | 72.1% |
| LYNBROOK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOL LYNBROOK | 414 | 11.6% | 65.6% |
Matched among New York middle 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 PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #80 of 766 | #18 of 38 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #33 of 768 ▲ 157 | #3 of 40 ▲ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.0% | #59 of 768 ▲ 49 | #15 of 40 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 495 | #359 of 796 | #25 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #283 of 683 | #22 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #335 of 688 | #22 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.1% | #736 of 773 | #23 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.4% | #419 of 524 | #23 of 30 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
495
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
+113% since 1990-91, when it was 232
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 495 | 49.6 | 10.0:1 | 14% (70) |
| 2023-24 | 482 | 50.4 | 9.6:1 | 16% (77) |
| 2022-23 | 468 | 52.7 | 8.9:1 | 13% (60) |
| 2020-21 | 491 | 45 | 10.9:1 | 11% (55) |
| 2017-18 | 523 | 43.5 | 12.0:1 | 13% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 543 | 39 | 13.9:1 | 10% (52) |
| 2010-11 | 575 | 46 | 12.5:1 | 6% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 520 | 35 | 14.9:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 232 | 12 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-sized middle-grades school, is located in PLEASANTVILLE, New York. Enrollment totals 495 students across grades 5 through 8.
PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT has 1,603 students in 3 schools, and PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those schools.
About 67% of the student body at PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Other groups make up 20% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. County-wide, 52% of Westchester County residents are White. A diversity index of 51% means there is a 51% chance two randomly chosen students at PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school's 49.6 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1. The ratio is within a point of the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. At PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL, 14% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Westchester County report 38%.
On the allk12 Grade, PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 83% of New York public middle schools.
The model predicts 69.8% for a school in New York with PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's free or reduced-price lunch share. PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL posts 75.2%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Westchester County show that the median household earns about $118,976 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 53%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Westchester County has 255 public schools with about 140,968 students, including PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL's nearest public school is PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL (about 0.1 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL places 6th out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 491 to 495.
On allk12, people connected to PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 559 students
- BEDFORD ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
Other schools in PLEASANTVILLE
- PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 559 students
- BEDFORD ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 549 students
- MOUNT PLEASANT-COTTAGE SCHOOLCombined · 122 students
- EDENWALD SCHOOLHigh · 86 students
Other Pleasantville Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Pleasantville Middle. PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Pleasantville Middle SchoolPLEASANTVILLE, NJ · 847 students
- Pleasantville Middle SchoolPleasantville, IA · 128 students
Nearby schools
- PLEASANTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 559
- BEDFORD ROAD SCHOOL0.3 mi · 549
- EDENWALD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 86
- MOUNT PLEASANT-COTTAGE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 122
- BRIARCLIFF MIDDLE SCHOOL1.5 mi · 298
- BRIARCLIFF HIGH SCHOOL1.5 mi · 463
Frequently asked questions
About PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 495 students in grades 05-08.
What grades does PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-08.
How many teachers does PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1.
What is the student diversity at PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 67% White, 20% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
PLEASANTVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of PLEASANTVILLE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.