NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Hastings on Hudson, NY

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6 public K-12 schools in Hastings on Hudson from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
1,703
Students
62/100
Avg Resource Index
6.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hastings on Hudson has more public-school enrollment than 8% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hastings on Hudson lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Hastings on Hudson's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Hastings on Hudson lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 19 to 553 students, a 29-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 92%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
99th percentile
Teacher staffing
99th percentile

Hillside Elementary School accounts for 32.5% of all Hastings on Hudson public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Hastings on Hudson-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Elementary. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hastings on Hudson school enrollment varies 29× across entities

Hastings on Hudson school enrollment ranges from 19 students (lowest) to 553 students (highest), a spread of 534 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Hastings on Hudson student-teacher ratio is 6.3:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ziccolella Elementary School 75
2. Ziccolella Middle School 73
3. Martin Luther King Jr High School 69
4. Hastings High School 58
5. Farragut Middle School 55
6. Hillside Elementary School 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hastings on Hudson

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Ziccolella Middle School 65.9/100
  2. 2 Ziccolella Elementary School 61.2/100
  3. 3 Martin Luther King Jr High School 59.5/100
  4. 4 Hillside Elementary School 51.4/100
  5. 5 Farragut Middle School 49.1/100

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Which Hastings on Hudson school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ziccolella Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hastings on Hudson schools in this federal-data comparison at 75/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hastings on Hudson, NY? ▼

Hastings on Hudson has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,703 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 6.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.