PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL

PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as an expansive 6-8 campus in PORT CHESTER, New York, run under PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 956 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 80% larger than that benchmark.

Within PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 4,392 students, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 9% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 10.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 49.7%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate 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 PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,074 (now 956). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 80% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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