ROARING BROOK SCHOOL

Set in CHAPPAQUA, New York, ROARING BROOK SCHOOL is an average-sized elementary school, run under CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 444 students across grades K through 4.

Within CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 3,509 students, ROARING BROOK SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, ROARING BROOK SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% Asian, 9% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 4% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, ROARING BROOK SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.6%, the actual is 84.8%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Zooming out to the 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%. In all, Westchester County runs 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), of which ROARING BROOK SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: WESTORCHARD SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROARING BROOK SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ROARING BROOK SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 76.6%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 442 students in 2018 compared to 444 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 79% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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