NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools NY

Best-Resourced Schools in Yorktown Heights, NY

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

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9
Schools
5,850
Students
54.1/100
Avg Resource Index
10.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Yorktown Heights has more public-school enrollment than 62% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Yorktown Heights 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

5 of Yorktown Heights's 9 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 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 26-point gap between Crompond School and Benjamin Franklin Elementary School shows the range hidden by Yorktown Heights's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 38%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
95th percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle School accounts for 20.8% of all Yorktown Heights public-school enrollment

That concentration means Yorktown Heights-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Yorktown Heights school enrollment varies 3.7× across entities

Yorktown Heights school enrollment ranges from 327 students (lowest) to 1,219 students (highest), a spread of 892 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

Yorktown Heights student-teacher ratio is 10.1:1 — 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. Crompond School 68
2. Putnam-Westchester Boces 62
3. Yorktown High School 58
4. Mohansic School 58
5. Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle School 55
6. Brookside School 54
7. Mildred E Strang Middle School 48
8. Benjamin Franklin Elementary School 42
9. Thomas Jefferson Elementary School 42

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Yorktown Heights

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 Putnam-Westchester Boces 63.8/100
  2. 2 Lakeland-Copper Beech Middle School 62.0/100
  3. 3 Benjamin Franklin Elementary School 55.8/100
  4. 4 Thomas Jefferson Elementary School 55.0/100
  5. 5 Yorktown High School 46.9/100

What do families ask about schools in Yorktown Heights?

Which Yorktown Heights school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Crompond School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Yorktown Heights schools in this federal-data comparison at 68/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Yorktown Heights, NY? ▼

Yorktown Heights has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,850 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.1:1.

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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.