Enrollment
282
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192004261
SCHOOL 17
745 MIDLAND AVE, YONKERS, NY 10704 · (914) 376-8345 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL282 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of New York public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
193 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 32 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 18 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 128% larger than its 6th grade class (18).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
45.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
59.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +14.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 14 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 45.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
38.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SCHOOL 17
SCHOOL 17's state test result (38.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCHOOL 17 this school | 282 | 68.4% | 38.2% |
| AMPARK NEIGHBORHOOD BRONX | 305 | 65.9% | 65.0% |
| WILLIAM LYNCH SCHOOL (THE) NEW YORK | 315 | 68.3% | 53.9% |
| PAIDEIA SCHOOL 24 YONKERS | 281 | 62.6% | 44.3% |
| YONKERS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY YONKERS | 297 | 61.6% | N/A |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURG BROOKLYN | 247 | 70.4% | 90.8% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SCHOOL 17 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 38.2% | #1,705 of 2,335 | #96 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,121 of 2,342 ▲ 377 | #76 of 127 ▲ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.0% | #1,578 of 2,343 ▲ 443 | #93 of 127 ▲ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 282 | #2,097 of 2,585 | #129 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.7:1 | #2,135 of 2,338 | #117 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #807 of 2,388 | #44 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.4% | #1,002 of 2,534 | #21 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -37.2% | #158 of 1,757 | #3 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
282
-98 (-26%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 403
Student : Teacher
15.7:1
was 16.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 282 | 17.9 | 15.7:1 | 68% (193) |
| 2023-24 | 327 | 20.7 | 15.8:1 | 69% (226) |
| 2022-23 | 344 | 22.5 | 15.3:1 | 80% (274) |
| 2020-21 | 380 | 23 | 16.5:1 | 81% (308) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 26 | 17.3:1 | 58% (262) |
| 2015-16 | 576 | 24 | 24.0:1 | 80% (462) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | 25 | 19.8:1 | 67% (330) |
| 2000-01 | 448 | 26 | 17.2:1 | 78% (351) |
| 1990-91 | 403 | 18 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SCHOOL 17.
About SCHOOL 17
SCHOOL 17 is a small elementary school in YONKERS, New York. Students in pre-K through 6 attend, and enrollment is 282 students. The school's enrollment is 36% smaller than the 443 average for elementary schools in New York.
SCHOOL 17 reports to YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 42 schools and 24,376 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at SCHOOL 17, with 61% of enrollment. The school is also 17% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. The school's diversity index is 58%, meaning two students picked at random have a 58% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
At SCHOOL 17, 17.9 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 15.7:1. That is higher than the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Roughly 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County is 30 points.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, SCHOOL 17 receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For SCHOOL 17, the prediction is 49.8% and the result is 38.2%.
In Westchester County (population about 999,677), the median household income is $118,976, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. There are 255 public schools in Westchester County, enrolling about 140,968 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. SCHOOL 17 has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. SCHOOL 17 comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
SCHOOL 17 is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment declined 26% from its 2020-21 level of 380.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,039
- SCHOOL 50.8 mi · 572
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,176
- PAIDEIA SCHOOL 241.1 mi · 281
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOL1.2 mi · 1,111
- YONKERS MIDDLE SCHOOL1.2 mi · 540
Frequently asked questions
About SCHOOL 17How many students attend SCHOOL 17?
SCHOOL 17 enrolls approximately 282 students in grades PK-06.
Is SCHOOL 17 an elementary, middle, or high school?
SCHOOL 17 is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does SCHOOL 17 have?
SCHOOL 17 employs 18 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.7:1.
What is the student diversity at SCHOOL 17?
Student demographics at SCHOOL 17 are roughly 14% White, 61% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees SCHOOL 17?
SCHOOL 17 is overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
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