POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a small primary school in POUND RIDGE, New York, POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 202 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within BEDFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 54% below that benchmark.

BEDFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,519 students; POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.6%; this one delivers 70.6%.

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 POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: BEDFORD VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 3.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 76.5%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. POUND RIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 35% since 2018, when it stood at 312 (now 202). White enrollment moved from 79% to 84% across the same window.

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