Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua NY

Original Research by School Decision on Horace Greeley High School

Horace Greeley High School is a public high school serving grades nine through twelve in Chappaqua, an affluent residential hamlet in northern Westchester County. The school enrolls about a thousand students across its four grades, with a student body that is predominantly white, with a meaningful Asian student presence and smaller Hispanic representation. Data on students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch and on students with special education or English-learner status was not available for the school, so a reader cannot assess the proportion of economically disadvantaged or multilingual learners from the provided information.

Chappaqua is a small, wooded residential community oriented around a compact, walkable downtown centered on King Street and South Greeley Avenue, where restaurants, shops, and the library sit within easy steps of the Metro-North Harlem Line station. Outside the center, the hamlet is car-oriented with winding tree-lined roads and larger lots. The area is among the highest-income in the United States. Housing values have appreciated substantially, and monthly rental costs are significant; the mortgage-to-income ratio reflects affordability pressure even in this affluent area. The labor market skews toward commuting: most residents travel out via Metro-North to jobs in New York City and the broader Westchester economy. The hamlet itself has limited on-site employment; major recent development, including the Chappaqua Crossing mixed-use complex on the former Reader's Digest campus, has added retail, fitness, and office space, but the primary economic draw for residents remains external.

State assessment data and graduation rates for Horace Greeley High School were not available, so the narrative cannot characterize academic proficiency, college-readiness attainment, or completion rates. Without these metrics, readers cannot directly compare the school's performance against its Westchester County peers. The school's academic programs and course offerings were also not provided in the available data.

The Chappaqua Central School District recently passed a facilities improvement bond referendum that addressed infrastructure across all schools, including roof replacements, network upgrades, and HVAC work. This marks the district's first major capital investment in roughly a decade. A separate security-focused proposition for a single point of entry at Horace Greeley High School did not move forward in the November 2022 vote. The district has also shifted its elementary literacy curriculum toward the Science of Reading, moving away from the Units of Study approach to a structured, phonics-first methodology. This change affects how younger students learn to read across the district, though the impact at the high school itself is less direct.

Horace Greeley sits on its own campus rather than in the compact downtown; the school and its peers occupy separated facilities across the hamlet. The school's location places it in a community with strong property wealth and a college-going orientation, though specific college-placement data was not in the provided information. A parent or resident would benefit from visiting the school's website or contacting the district directly to learn about course breadth, AP offerings, dual-credit pathways, and recent academic outcomes, none of which appear in the available record.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=99%Cohort of 335 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

31 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

88 tested

93.2%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

39 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

33 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

84.8%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

11 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

90.9%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

1 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

36 tested · Grade 10

86.1%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

160 tested · Grade 9

93.8%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

59 tested

94.9%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

107 tested

53.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

143 tested

49.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

37 tested

48.6%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

37 tested

81.1%

scored 3 or higher

English

Seminar

68 tested

88.2%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Human Geography

1 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

7 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

8 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

61 tested · Grade 10

65.6%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

210 tested

91.4%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

5 tested · Grade 9

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

17 tested

70.6%

scored 3 or higher

German Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Japanese Language and Culture

2 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Latin: Vergil (archived)

9 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

74 tested · Grade 10

82.4%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

5 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

70 tested

92.9%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

17 tested

94.1%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

8 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

244 tested

83.6%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Ela	252	94.0%
Social Studies	250	96.0%
Science	32	56.0%
Math	26	42.0%

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.