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SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a mid-sized middle school in NORTH TARRYTOWN, New York, SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL teaches 617 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE TARRYTOWNS.
Within UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE TARRYTOWNS, which oversees 5 schools and 2,636 students, SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 26% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Westchester County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 55% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +1.4 points.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Westchester County put the typical household earns roughly $118,976 per year, 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), SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SLEEPY HOLLOW HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SLEEPY HOLLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 72.5%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 3%: 599 students in 2018 compared to 617 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 31% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.
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