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Enrollment
338
Elementary
DISTRICT 484 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192001920
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL
1061 N BROADWAY, YONKERS, NY 10701 · (914) 376-8563 · Westchester County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL338 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of New York public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
16.7:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
282 students
DISTRICT 69% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 18 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 26 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 22 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 29 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 21 | 6% |
| Grade 4 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 17% |
| Grade 7 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 43 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (26) is 40% smaller than its 8th grade class (43).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · 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
38.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 18.0% |
% 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
25.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL's state test result (25.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL this school | 338 | 83.4% | 25.5% |
| PS 93 ALBERT G OLIVER BRONX | 356 | 84.8% | 42.0% |
| DAVID PATERSON SCHOOL HEMPSTEAD | 388 | 86.6% | 20.9% |
| PS 7 SAMUEL STERN NEW YORK | 348 | 90.5% | 26.1% |
| PS 124 SILAS B DUTCHER BROOKLYN | 293 | 79.9% | 29.8% |
| CHARLES B WARRING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 286 | 88.8% | 43.5% |
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 BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.5% | #2,143 of 2,335 | #117 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #2,259 of 2,342 ▼ 6 | #126 of 127 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,906 of 2,343 ▲ 31 | #112 of 127 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 338 | #1,748 of 2,585 | #109 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.7:1 | #2,213 of 2,338 | #121 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.6% | #969 of 2,388 | #59 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.4% | #662 of 2,534 | #5 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -34.7% | #200 of 1,757 | #5 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
338
-98 (-22%) vs 2020
-30% since 2000-01, when it was 486
Student : Teacher
16.7:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 338 | 20.2 | 16.7:1 | 83% (282) |
| 2023-24 | 373 | 24 | 15.5:1 | 78% (291) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 23.3 | 18.0:1 | 82% (342) |
| 2020-21 | 436 | 25 | 17.4:1 | 86% (373) |
| 2017-18 | 518 | 29 | 17.9:1 | 69% (356) |
| 2015-16 | 549 | 27 | 20.3:1 | 87% (478) |
| 2010-11 | 443 | 30 | 14.8:1 | 75% (334) |
| 2000-01 | 486 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 73% (354) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL.
About WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL is a small elementary school with its address in YONKERS, New York. It enrolled 338 students in pre-K through 8 for the 2024-25 school year. Enrollment is 24% lower than the average for elementary schools in New York, which is about 443.
YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT operates 42 schools. Combined enrollment is 24,376 students.
Hispanic students account for 59% of enrollment at WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL. Enrollment also includes 29% Black, 4% White, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 32 points above the 27% share among Westchester County residents. By the diversity index, WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL comes in at 56%.
A ratio of 16.7:1 comes from the school's 20.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York is lower than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 83% of students at WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Among public schools in Westchester County, the average eligibility rate is 38%.
allk12 grades WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL's actual average proficiency rate on state tests (25.5%) and its predicted rate (44.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of New York schools.
Westchester County census figures show that median household income is about $118,976, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. A total of 255 public schools operate in Westchester County, serving about 140,968 students.
The nearest public school is ZICCOLELLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, at about 0.6 miles. WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL comes in 4th of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 338 was 22% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 436.
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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 YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Nearby schools
- ZICCOLELLA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 23
- MARTIN LUTHER KING JR HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 63
- ZICCOLELLA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 19
- CROSS HILL ACADEMY0.7 mi · 328
- YONKERS EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY0.7 mi · 297
- SCHOOL 220.7 mi · 381
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL?
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL enrolls approximately 338 students in grades PK-08.
Is WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL is approximately 16.7:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL?
At WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 59% Hispanic, 29% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL public or private?
WILLIAM BOYCE THOMPSON SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.