SCHOOL 23

Located at 56 VAN CORTLANDT PK AVE, in YONKERS, New York, SCHOOL 23 is a mid-sized elementary-level community that hosts 498 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 42 schools and 24,376 students, SCHOOL 23 is one campus in the system.

On demographics, SCHOOL 23 reports that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 23% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 27% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at SCHOOL 23 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SCHOOL 23 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.9%; this one delivers 37.8%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Westchester County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 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 23 is one campus in the mix.

ENRICO FERMI SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SCHOOL 23 at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 39.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 23 has ticked down 19%, going from 614 students in 2018 to 498 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 60% to 65%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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