NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Scarsdale, NY

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

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12
Schools
7,582
Students
52/100
Avg Resource Index
12.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Scarsdale has more public-school enrollment than 72% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Scarsdale 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

8 of Scarsdale's 12 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.

Economic-need coverage is incomplete

Free-lunch eligibility is reported for schools covering 7.6% of Scarsdale's listed enrollment. Because the remaining enrollment is outside that calculation, the measured percentage should not be generalized to every local student. The Resource Investment Index uses other reported federal fields and has its own coverage limits. Treat the city figures as a map of available records: inspect a campus's source fields before using economic need or resource position in a comparison.

City enrollment
Top 28%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
91st percentile
Teacher staffing
84th percentile

Scarsdale Senior High School accounts for 19.5% of all Scarsdale public-school enrollment

That concentration means Scarsdale-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. 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

Scarsdale school enrollment varies 4.2× across entities

Scarsdale school enrollment ranges from 354 students (lowest) to 1,479 students (highest), a spread of 1,125 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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

Scarsdale student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Seely Place School 62
2. Scarsdale Senior High School 61
3. Greenville School 61
4. Edgemont Junior-Senior High School 60
5. Quaker Ridge School 57
6. Edgewood School 55
7. Scarsdale Middle School 53
8. Fox Meadow School 53
9. Heathcote School 53
10. Greenacres School 53
11. Greenvale School 35
12. Casimir Pulaski School 21

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Scarsdale

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 Greenville School 69.3/100
  2. 2 Seely Place School 68.4/100
  3. 3 Casimir Pulaski School 67.1/100
  4. 4 Edgewood School 66.6/100
  5. 5 Edgemont Junior-Senior High School 65.9/100

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Which Scarsdale school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Seely Place School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Scarsdale schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Scarsdale, NY? ▼

Scarsdale has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,582 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.5:1.

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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.