SCHOOL 17

Set in YONKERS, New York, SCHOOL 17 is a close-knit primary school, one of the schools within YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 282 students across grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 36% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 42 schools in YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (24,376 students total), SCHOOL 17 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SCHOOL 17 logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%; the rest looks like 17% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at SCHOOL 17 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), SCHOOL 17 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the surrounding community, Westchester County reports that median household income runs about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), SCHOOL 17 is one campus in the mix.

SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SCHOOL 17 ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 17 has shrank 37%, going from 449 students in 2018 to 282 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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