Enrollment
356
Elementary
DISTRICT 472 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362346003279
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL
132 RECTORY ST, PORT CHESTER, NY 10573 · (914) 934-7980 · Westchester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL356 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
249 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 66 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 12 | 3% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (58).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
33.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 43.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
36.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-12.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL's state test result (36.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL this school | 356 | 69.9% | 36.9% |
| EAST ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 430 | 71.9% | N/A |
| EAST RAMAPO EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER AT KAKIAT SPRING VALLEY | 386 | 66.8% | N/A |
| PARK AVENUE SCHOOL PORT CHESTER | 432 | 60.2% | 42.4% |
| SUNSET PARK AVENUES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 337 | 80.1% | 38.3% |
| DOS PUENTES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW YORK | 416 | 65.4% | 55.3% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #1,759 of 2,335 | #100 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,580 of 2,342 ▼ 4 | #97 of 127 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #2,050 of 2,343 ▼ 25 | #119 of 127 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 356 | #1,629 of 2,585 | #103 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #2,014 of 2,338 | #110 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.7% | #2,151 of 2,388 | #138 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.9% | #985 of 2,534 | #20 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.0% | #962 of 1,757 | #35 of 100 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
356
-52 (-13%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 277
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 356 | 24 | 14.9:1 | 70% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 374 | 24 | 15.6:1 | 83% (310) |
| 2022-23 | 377 | 20.7 | 18.2:1 | 83% (312) |
| 2020-21 | 408 | 24 | 17.0:1 | 85% (348) |
| 2017-18 | 409 | 33 | 12.4:1 | 86% (353) |
| 2015-16 | 438 | 33 | 13.3:1 | 86% (376) |
| 2010-11 | 433 | 31 | 14.0:1 | 80% (348) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 21 | 15.2:1 | 62% (197) |
| 1990-91 | 277 | 16 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL.
About THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL is a small elementary school that serves part of PORT CHESTER, New York. It had 356 students in 2024-25, spanning kindergarten through 5.
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL is part of PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 6 schools serve 4,392 students.
Of every 100 students at THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL, about 90 are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 6% White. Census figures show Westchester County is about 27% Hispanic. A diversity index of 18% means there is an 18% chance two randomly chosen students at THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL are from different groups.
For every teacher at THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL, there are about 14.9 students; the school has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is lower. There are 249 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 70% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Westchester County is 38%.
Among New York public elementary schools, THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL outscored 25%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
In New York, THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 36.9% actual against a predicted 49.3%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Westchester County show that the median household earns about $118,976 a year, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Westchester County, 255 public schools serve about 140,968 students.
Western Middle School is about 0.6 miles from THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL is 5th among 6 schools close by.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
A 13% decline took enrollment from 408 in 2020-21 to 356 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 17.0:1; by 2024-25 it was 14.9:1.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 956 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 725 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- KING STREET SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
Other schools in PORT CHESTER
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 956 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 725 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- KING STREET SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
Nearby schools
- Western Middle School0.6 mi · 563
- New Lebanon School0.6 mi · 375
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 432
- KING STREET SCHOOL0.9 mi · 374
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 725
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,549
Frequently asked questions
About THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOLHow many students attend THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL?
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 356 students in grades KG-05.
Is THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.9:1 students per teacher at THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL.
How diverse is THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL?
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 90% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL?
THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL is overseen by PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
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