Croton-harmon High School, Croton on Hudson NY

Original Research by School Decision on Croton-harmon High School

Croton-Harmon High School is a mid-sized public high school serving grades nine through twelve in Croton-on-Hudson, a walkable village in Westchester County roughly an hour north of New York City by Metro-North commuter rail. The school sits on a dedicated campus on Old Post Road South rather than the downtown commercial core, part of a three-school district that also operates an elementary and middle school.

The enrollment is stable across all four grades, with a modest majority of students white, a meaningful share who are Hispanic, and smaller numbers of students who are Asian or of two or more races. About a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, placing the school in an economically mixed setting typical of suburban Westchester. The data provided did not include state testing results, graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, or counts of students with individualized education plans or those learning English as an additional language, so a reader cannot assess academic outcomes or measure the depth of support services from the numbers here.

The school sits in a community shaped by riverfront parks, a historic and active train station, and ongoing transit-oriented development. Home values in Croton-on-Hudson's zip code are substantial, reflecting the region's position as a desirable Westchester suburb. The housing market there has stabilized after several years of rapid change, with listed homes typically spending a moderate number of days on market. Families considering the area should understand that entry to this market requires significant capital, though mortgage rates and local unemployment are in line with national norms.

The district itself has adopted a strategic vision called "What Schools Can Be," centering on learning fueled by student interest and passion rather than traditional scope-and-sequence instruction. That philosophical stance is relevant for families evaluating whether the school's approach aligns with their own expectations of how high school should work. The district also completed a major capital referendum in late 2024, funding renovations to all buildings, new security systems, roofing for solar installation, and electric-bus charging infrastructure. These improvements continue into 2026 and represent a substantial commitment to physical facilities and long-term operations.

Croton-on-Hudson itself is in the midst of a documented shift toward multifamily housing near its train station. Several transit-oriented developments have been approved or completed in the past year or so, signaling growth in the village's residential footprint and potentially changing the demographic and household composition of families sending children to the school over time. The Croton Free Library, county parkland including Croton Point Park, and the walkable village center with local restaurants and shops anchor community life.

Without state assessment data or graduation rates, a parent evaluating this school should request those metrics directly from the district office or the school, as they will be essential to understanding where students perform relative to state and county benchmarks and what pathways are available after high school. The profile here captures the school's setting, immediate demographics, and the district's instructional philosophy, but not its academic outcomes or the specific programs, course sequences, or extracurriculars that shape the day-to-day student experience.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 132 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

22 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

12 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

10 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

10 tested · Grade 10

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

43 tested · Grade 10

62.8%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

25 tested · Grade 10

76.0%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

48 tested

54.2%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

41 tested

46.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

11 tested

63.6%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Comparative Government and Politics

26 tested

57.7%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

52 tested

36.5%

scored 3 or higher

Microeconomics

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

9 tested

55.6%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

56 tested

91.1%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

9 tested · Grade 10

33.3%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

24 tested

79.2%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

51 tested

80.4%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

40 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

8 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

World History

63 tested · Grade 10

90.5%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

3 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	240	95.0%
Social Studies	25	76.0%
Science	22	86.0%

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.