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Enrollment
1,019
Elementary
DISTRICT 665 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362049004400
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
311 BROADFIELD RD, NEW ROCHELLE, NY 10804 · (914) 576-4450 · Westchester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,019 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% 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.
- B-Beats 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
13.3:1
77 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
382 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 153 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 158 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 178 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 184 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 147 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 192 | 19% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (153) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (192).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · 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
64.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
66.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 66.0% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
56.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (56.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 1,019 | 37.5% | 56.8% |
| PS 24 SPUYTEN DUYVIL BRONX | 742 | 37.3% | 86.9% |
| PINE TREE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MONROE | 746 | 43.0% | 49.9% |
| CORAM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CORAM | 951 | 46.6% | 35.1% |
| PS/IS 187 HUDSON CLIFFS NEW YORK | 744 | 39.4% | 76.8% |
| MYERS CORNERS SCHOOL WAPPINGERS FALLS | 836 | 36.0% | 47.4% |
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 WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #895 of 2,335 | #66 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #857 of 2,342 ▲ 219 | #65 of 127 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #771 of 2,343 ▼ 6 | #63 of 127 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,019 | #39 of 2,585 | #1 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #1,698 of 2,338 | #97 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.5% | #289 of 2,388 | #9 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.5% | #1,763 of 2,534 | #70 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #1,567 of 1,757 | #85 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
1,019
+62 (+6%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 835
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 1,019 | 76.8 | 13.3:1 | 37% (382) |
| 2023-24 | 995 | 69.6 | 14.3:1 | 31% (306) |
| 2022-23 | 988 | 65.8 | 15.0:1 | 33% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 957 | 67 | 14.3:1 | 31% (293) |
| 2017-18 | 1,057 | 73.7 | 14.3:1 | 29% (310) |
| 2015-16 | 1,031 | 67 | 15.4:1 | 37% (379) |
| 2010-11 | 1,011 | 69 | 14.7:1 | 34% (342) |
| 2000-01 | 1,006 | 64 | 15.7:1 | 28% (277) |
| 1990-91 | 835 | 48 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school with an address in NEW ROCHELLE, New York. It has an enrollment of 1,019 students in kindergarten through 5. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 130% bigger than average.
NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 10 schools. Combined enrollment is 9,837 students.
The largest group at WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is Hispanic students, at 39%. After that, the student body is 36% White, 17% Black, 4% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census figures show Westchester County is about 27% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 69%.
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 76.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.3:1. It is about the same as the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 37%. That is in line with the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County.
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY 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 57% of New York public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 4.4 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 56.8% actual, 61.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
For the population of Westchester County, the median household earns about $118,976 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Westchester County, 255 public schools serve about 140,968 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL, is the closest to WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Its average proficiency rate of 56.8% is below the 74.3% average for nearby schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Since 2020-21, enrollment has grown 6%, from 957 to 1,019. By 2024-25, the school had 13.3 students per teacher, compared with 14.3 in 2020-21.
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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 NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,047 students
- ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,122 students
- ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,012 students
- TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 838 students
- COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 728 students
- GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 640 students
Other schools in NEW ROCHELLE
- NEW ROCHELLE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,047 students
- ISAAC E YOUNG MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,122 students
- ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,012 students
- TRINITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 838 students
- COLUMBUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 728 students
- GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 640 students
Nearby schools
- ALBERT LEONARD MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,012
- QUAKER RIDGE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 491
- ANNE HUTCHINSON SCHOOL1.2 mi · 419
- GEORGE M DAVIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 640
- EASTCHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 922
- MURRAY AVENUE SCHOOL1.4 mi · 689
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,019 students in grades KG-05.
Is WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 13.3:1 (77 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 36% White, 39% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
WILLIAM B WARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of NEW ROCHELLE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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