Enrollment
316
Elementary
DISTRICT 360 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362010001844
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL
72 LEXINGTON AVE, MOUNT VERNON, NY 10552 · (914) 665-5060 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL316 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 64% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
10.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
160 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 30 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 22 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 23 | 7% |
| Grade 7 | 28 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 27 | 9% |
This year's kindergarten class (22) is 19% smaller than its 8th grade class (27).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
56.9%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 56.9% |
| 2023-24 | 54.0% | 67.2% |
% 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
58.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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 TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL's state test result (58.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL this school | 316 | 50.6% | 58.0% |
| MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 301 | 53.8% | 53.7% |
| LENOX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALDWIN | 261 | 42.1% | 60.3% |
| PENNINGTON SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 409 | 44.0% | 49.3% |
| BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BALDWIN | 236 | 43.6% | 59.7% |
| GRAHAM SCHOOL MOUNT VERNON | 406 | 58.1% | 34.8% |
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 TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #840 of 2,335 | #63 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.9% | #1,210 of 2,342 ▼ 560 | #81 of 127 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #1,112 of 2,343 ▼ 381 | #71 of 127 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 316 | #1,891 of 2,585 | #121 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #449 of 2,338 | #23 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.4% | #784 of 2,388 | #40 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.6% | #1,387 of 2,534 | #49 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.2% | #467 of 1,757 | #12 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
316
-30 (-9%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 410
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 316 | 31.5 | 10.0:1 | 51% (160) |
| 2023-24 | 317 | 30.1 | 10.5:1 | 43% (137) |
| 2022-23 | 322 | 29 | 11.1:1 | 54% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | 31 | 11.2:1 | 60% (206) |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 25 | 16.7:1 | 72% (302) |
| 2015-16 | 345 | 27 | 12.8:1 | 65% (223) |
| 2010-11 | 354 | 27 | 13.1:1 | 63% (223) |
| 2000-01 | 376 | 27 | 13.9:1 | 61% (229) |
| 1990-91 | 410 | 25 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL.
About TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is a small elementary school in MOUNT VERNON, New York, one of the schools in MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT. Students in pre-K through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 316 students. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 29% below average.
MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 6,654 students, and its 16 schools include TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL.
More than half of enrollment at TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is Black: 56%. Enrollment also includes 31% Hispanic, 7% White, and 4% Asian. The school's Black share is 42 points above the 14% share among Westchester County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
The school lists 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A total of 160 students, or 51%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Westchester County report 38%.
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of New York public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL would score about 56.4%. It scores 58.0%, 1.6 points above that figure.
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 roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Westchester County has 255 public schools with about 140,968 students, including TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL.
Of the public schools around it, TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is closest to MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY, about 0.3 miles away. TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL's average proficiency of 58.0% compares with 52.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment fell by 30 students, from 346 to 316. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.2:1 to 10.0:1.
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Other schools in MOUNT VERNON
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,062 students
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMYHigh · 747 students
- LINCOLN SCHOOLElementary · 470 students
- DENZEL WASHINGTON SCHOOL-ARTSHigh · 427 students
- PENNINGTON SCHOOLElementary · 409 students
- GRAHAM SCHOOLElementary · 406 students
Nearby schools
- MOUNT VERNON HONOR ACADEMY0.3 mi · 301
- MOUNT VERNON HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,062
- LINCOLN SCHOOL0.6 mi · 470
- PENNINGTON SCHOOL0.6 mi · 409
- HUTCHINSON SCHOOL0.6 mi · 366
- MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMY0.9 mi · 747
Frequently asked questions
About TRAPHAGEN SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL?
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL enrolls approximately 316 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL serve?
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is approximately 10.0:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL?
At TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 7% White, 31% Hispanic, 56% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL?
TRAPHAGEN SCHOOL is overseen by MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT in Westchester County.
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