SCHOOL 29

SCHOOL 29 is one of the moderately sized primary schools in YONKERS, New York, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 580 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SCHOOL 29 sits 31% larger than that benchmark.

YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 42 schools with combined enrollment of 24,376 students; SCHOOL 29 is among them.

In terms of who attends, SCHOOL 29 logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 17% Black, 11% White, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SCHOOL 29 tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.2%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate median household income runs about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), SCHOOL 29 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 29. On composite proficiency, SCHOOL 29 comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 638 students in 2018 compared to 580 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 50% to 62%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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