WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a high-enrollment elementary school in WEST HAVERSTRAW, New York, WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL hosts 715 students from grades K through 3, overseen by HAVERSTRAW-STONY POINT CSD (NORTH ROCKLAND). By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 61% larger than that benchmark.

HAVERSTRAW-STONY POINT CSD (NORTH ROCKLAND) comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 7,976 students; WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. Other groups include 16% Black, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

In terms of school funding signals, WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.1%; actual is 26.3%, a gap of -28.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Rockland County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,959, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Rockland County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), of which WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

GERALD F NEARY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.7%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. WEST HAVERSTRAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 751 (now 715). Hispanic enrollment moved from 67% to 74% across the same window.

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