RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL

RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL is a close-knit 6-8 campus in MAMARONECK, New York, one of the schools within RYE NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 349 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 34% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

Within RYE NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 4 schools and 1,424 students, RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 62% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 20% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.0%.

In the broader community, census data for Westchester County shows median household earnings sit near $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

The closest other public school is RYE NECK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RYE NECK MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 410 students in 2018 compared to 349 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 in 2025.

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