SCHOOL 5

Located at 118 LOCKWOOD AVE, in YONKERS, New York, SCHOOL 5 is a mid-tier elementary campus that instructs 572 students (grades pre-K through 8), one of the schools within YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SCHOOL 5 sits 29% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 42 schools in YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (24,376 students total), SCHOOL 5 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SCHOOL 5 logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Black, 12% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, SCHOOL 5 has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting SCHOOL 5 higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 72% of students at SCHOOL 5 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, SCHOOL 5 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.7%, the actual is 34.2%, a residual of -14.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Westchester County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), SCHOOL 5 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PAIDEIA SCHOOL 24, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SCHOOL 5. On composite proficiency, SCHOOL 5 comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SCHOOL 5 has edged down 7%, going from 618 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 12% across the same window.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.