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Hawthorne, New York - 4 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District operates 4 public schools serving 8 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New York. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Westchester County.
The funding mix is 92.2% local, 0.4% state, and 7.4% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 87.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, . Demographically, the student body averages 44.6% African American, 30.0% Hispanic or Latino, 15.1% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Linden Hill High School, enrolling 66 students (42% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Geller House School, at 8 students, a 8x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Linden Hill High School accounts for 42.3% of all Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District school enrollment varies 8.3× across entities
Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District school enrollment ranges from 8 students (lowest) to 66 students (highest), a spread of 58 students. That spread reflects typical mixed-portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District student-counselor ratio is 88:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted 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.
Comparisons are relative to Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District?
Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District has 4 schools, including 4 combined. Total enrollment is 8 students.
What is the demographic composition of Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District?
Hawthorne-Cedar Knolls Union Free School District students are 44.6% African American, 30.0% Hispanic or Latino, 15.1% White, 0.8% Asian, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.