The top reported proficiency rate is 20% in Math. The lowest is 6% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Greenburgh Eleven Middle School
Greenburgh Eleven Middle School sits on the grounds of Children's Village, a residential treatment campus in Dobbs Ferry, and serves grades six through eight as a special education school within the Greenburgh Eleven Union Free School District. This is not a school families choose by moving into a neighborhood. It serves students who reside at or attend Children's Village, a campus-based setting for young people with significant emotional and behavioral needs. Understanding that context is the starting point for everything else here.
The school is very small, with enrollment that amounts to only a handful of students per grade. Because group sizes are so limited, New York State suppresses most of its assessment results to protect student privacy. The only results that came through without suppression were from seventh grade in math and English language arts, where proficiency was low. The eighth-grade results in both subjects, and in science, were suppressed due to the small group sizes involved. A social studies result from a much earlier school year also appeared in the data, but it is too dated to say anything useful about current performance. Readers should not read the suppressed results as a signal of strength or weakness; the school's population size simply prevents the state from reporting them. What the data does show is that academic proficiency, where visible, is below the midpoint among districts in Westchester County, which is consistent with what a school serving students in residential therapeutic care would be expected to face given the nature of those students' needs.
The district has made curriculum choices worth knowing. It has adopted STEMscopes for science across grades K through 8, now in its second full year, pairing inquiry-based lessons with dedicated specialists. It has also implemented i-Ready Math, a program that adjusts to each student's level and provides personalized pathways. For families or placing agencies thinking about what academic structure students are receiving, these are publicly reported commitments the district has made. The district has also launched the Eagle Eye Security Program, a career and technical training initiative that produced its first graduating cohort. That is a small but concrete step toward building post-secondary readiness in a setting where traditional academic pathways can be harder to access.
The school's behavioral and therapeutic framework is built around Restorative Justice practices paired with PBIS, Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports. These are not supplementary add-ons; they are, according to the district's own publicly reported materials, the organizing philosophy for how relationships and conflict are handled schoolwide. For students whose placement here is connected to emotional or behavioral challenges, that framework is a central feature of what this school is.
Dobbs Ferry itself is a compact, walkable Hudson River village north of Manhattan, with a Metro-North station that connects to the city in roughly a commuter-friendly span. The downtown blends retail and residential uses, with parks, a waterfront trail along the RiverWalk, and institutions like Mercy University nearby. The village has seen meaningful investment in recent years through a large mixed-use development that replaced a former industrial site, adding housing, hospitality, and dining. Home values in the zip code are well above both the state and national medians, and rents have climbed sharply in recent periods. That housing market context matters primarily for staff, placing caseworkers, or families with connections to the area, since students at this school are placed rather than enrolled by residential choice.
A graduation rate is not available for this school, which serves only middle grades. No data on chronic absenteeism or discipline rates was provided. IEP and English learner population rates were also missing from the data.
What this school is, plainly, is a small, specialized educational environment embedded within a residential treatment setting, designed to serve young people whose circumstances have placed them outside the conventional school system. Its academic metrics reflect that population rather than describing the school's quality in the way those metrics describe a conventional middle school.
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