SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL

SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized junior highs in CHAPPAQUA, New York, one of the schools within CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 500 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8.

CHAPPAQUA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,509 students; SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL records that 68% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 16% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

On the resource side, On paper, SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.8%; this one delivers 89.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Westchester County put median household income runs about $118,976, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WESTORCHARD SCHOOL, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SEVEN BRIDGES MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 75.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 76% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

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