Richard J Bailey School, White Plains NY

Original Research by School Decision on Richard J Bailey School

Richard J. Bailey School sits on Hillside Avenue South in White Plains, serving grades four through six within the Greenburgh Central School District. It is a regular public elementary-to-middle-grades school, not a charter, and the data show no magnet designation. With an enrollment that lands in a moderate range for a school spanning these three grade levels, it functions as the intermediate stop between the district's lower elementary grades and Woodlands Middle High School.

The most distinctive fact about Greenburgh Central, and therefore about Bailey, is the district's commitment to the International Baccalaureate Programme across all grades, kindergarten through twelve, including the IB Diploma. Publicly reported sources describe this as the organizing framework for curriculum and instruction district-wide, using the IB's inquiry-based approach alongside specific materials for reading, writing, and mathematics. For a family weighing districts, this is not a supplemental offering or a track within a building; it is the core structure of what Bailey teachers are trained to deliver.

On state assessments, Bailey's results from the most recent testing year show proficiency in English language arts running ahead of math across the grades tested. The fifth grade ELA result stands as the strongest showing in the building, with the fourth and sixth grades following at levels that are meaningful but lower. In math, fourth and fifth grade results are broadly similar to each other and moderately above the sixth grade figure. Science is tested at fifth grade only, and the result there sits just below the math results for the same cohort. Taken together, and measured against the field of districts in Westchester County, the school's overall proficiency index falls below the midpoint relative to districts in Westchester County. That gap is worth a parent's attention, and it would be reasonable to ask the school directly about how the IB framework and any intervention supports are being used to close it. Third grade data appears in the file with no tested students, which simply reflects that Bailey does not serve third grade; the grade is listed as a data artifact and carries no meaning here.

About half of Bailey's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this a school that serves a genuinely mixed economic population. The student body is predominantly Hispanic and Black, with smaller shares of white, Asian, and multiracial students. IEP and English learner counts were not available in the data provided. Chronic absenteeism and attendance figures were also absent, so the picture of day-to-day student engagement is incomplete.

The school sits in White Plains, the economic and governmental center of Westchester County. Publicly reported sources describe a city with a dense, walkable downtown undergoing a major residential buildout, including a large-scale conversion of the former Galleria mall site into thousands of new housing units across several towers. That growth is reshaping the population base of the area. Home values in the zip code are well above both state and national benchmarks, and the county housing market as a whole shows prices holding at a high level with listings moving relatively quickly. White Plains is served by two Metro-North stations on the Harlem Line, with the downtown station described as the busiest in Westchester, making the city accessible to New York City commuters.

At the district level, a January 2025 voter referendum approved transferring capital reserve funds toward science lab and infrastructure improvements at Woodlands Middle High School, the building Bailey students feed into. That project is funded through reserves rather than a tax increase. The district also publicly awarded a major energy savings performance contract in 2024 covering eight facilities, including Bailey's building, with construction underway.

No graduation rate applies here since Bailey stops at sixth grade. Program-specific offerings beyond the IB framework were not detailed in the data available for this school individually, and staffing ratios and discipline data were also absent.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 30%

School 0% · District 67% · ▼ 67 pts below district

▼ 59 pts below state median · ▼ 62 pts below county median

Grade 456%

School 56% · District 56%

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 562%

School 62% · District 62%

▲ 10 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 651%

School 51% · District 51%

▲ 6 pts above state median · even with county median

English language arts

Grade 30%

School 0% · District 55% · ▼ 55 pts below district

▼ 52 pts below state median · ▼ 56 pts below county median

Grade 459%

School 59% · District 59%

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 569%

School 69% · District 69%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 3 pts above county median

Grade 664%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Science

Grade 549%

School 49% · District 49%

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 591%

School 91% · district not reported

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

This schoolGREENBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, same grade

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 4Lower-income44%Higher-income75%31 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income64%Higher-income73%8 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income49%Higher-income77%28 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income45%Higher-income67%22 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income52%Higher-income71%20 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income59%19 pp gap