ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL

Set in YONKERS, New York, ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL is an expansive elementary school, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 720 students across grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 63% above typical.

YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 24,376 students; ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% White, 4% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL reports 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 76% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Westchester County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.2%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -5.3 points.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 6%. ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

The closest other public school is PAIDEIA SCHOOL 15, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.

ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 886 (now 720). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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