WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 153 STORRS RD, in THIELLS, New York, WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-tier 6-8 campus that caters to 567 students (grades 4 through 6), run under HAVERSTRAW-STONY POINT CSD (NORTH ROCKLAND).

Within HAVERSTRAW-STONY POINT CSD (NORTH ROCKLAND), which oversees 9 schools and 7,976 students, WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 15% White, 14% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Rockland County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Rockland County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.6%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of -14.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Rockland County put median household income runs about $109,959, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Rockland County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,335 students), WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

FIELDSTONE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WILLOW GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 14%, going from 661 students in 2018 to 567 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 15% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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