WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL

WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier elementary school in EASTCHESTER, New York, part of TUCKAHOE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 488 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Within TUCKAHOE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,065 students, WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Westchester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.9%, the actual is 72.9%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Westchester County indicate median household income runs about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL is one of 255 public schools in Westchester County (combined enrollment of about 140,968 students).

Nearest neighbor: TUCKAHOE HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 77.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLIAM E COTTLE SCHOOL has contracted 20%, going from 607 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 67% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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