WAMPUS SCHOOL

WAMPUS SCHOOL is a mid-tier elementary school in ARMONK, New York, overseen by BYRAM HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 547 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so WAMPUS SCHOOL sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

BYRAM HILLS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 2,336 students; WAMPUS SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, WAMPUS SCHOOL shows that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 52%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 4% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Westchester County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WAMPUS SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.5%; this one delivers 84.7%.

In the area at large, 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 roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Westchester County's 255 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students), WAMPUS SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

H C CRITTENDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 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), WAMPUS SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 83.2%.

WAMPUS SCHOOL operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 569 students in 2018 compared to 547 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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