The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in Math. The lowest is 45% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Stony Point Elementary School
Stony Point Elementary serves kindergarten through sixth grade on Gurnee Drive in Stony Point, New York, as part of the Haverstraw-Stony Point Central School District, publicly known as North Rockland. The school is a regular public elementary with an enrollment that falls on the larger end for its grade band.
The student body is majority Hispanic, with White and Black students making up most of the remainder, and a smaller share identifying as Asian or multiracial. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places this school in a higher-need economic category. Data on English learner enrollment and students with individualized education programs were not reported in the available records, so a parent interested in those support structures should ask the school directly.
On New York State assessments, third-grade results are available for both math and English language arts. Math proficiency sits meaningfully above the ELA rate, though both land below the midpoint of the range seen across districts in Rockland County on the combined proficiency index. Compared to the eight other Rockland County districts with reported results, Stony Point Elementary's parent district places below the county median on overall academic proficiency. That gap is worth a conversation with the school about instructional supports, pacing, and how individual students are tracked toward grade-level standards. Science scores from the fifth-grade assessment were suppressed due to very low tested counts, so no meaningful read on science proficiency is available. Multi-year trend data were not available in the records provided, so it is not possible to say whether results have been improving or holding steady.
The school is the only building within North Rockland serving the Stony Point community at the elementary level alongside Farley Elementary. Students from this school eventually feed into North Rockland High School in Thiells, which has been the subject of a publicly reported capital referendum voters approved in late 2023. That project draws from the district's existing capital reserve, carries no additional tax levy, and covers HVAC, classroom, library, cafeteria, and athletic-field upgrades. The new turf complex at the high school is already open. The district also received state Environmental Bond Act funding in 2025 to electrify HVAC systems at two buildings with heat pumps and install high-performance windows, an air quality and energy upgrade expected to reduce energy consumption meaningfully in those spaces. Separately, the district has benefited from targeted state aid tied to the long-running Mirant tax certiorari settlement, publicly reported as the largest of its kind in New York State history; that aid has helped keep recent annual tax levy increases modest.
Stony Point itself is a low-density, heavily residential township, with nearly all housing in single-family homes and most undeveloped land zoned for large lots. The Palisades Interstate Park covers a substantial portion of the town's land, and Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks sit largely within its borders. The community is car-dependent; walkability scores are very low and there is no local rail service. Bus service from a park-and-ride on Route 9W connects to the Port Authority terminal and to Metro-North at Tarrytown. Home values here run well above the state and national medians, and the price-to-income ratio is stretched relative to national norms, which matters for families weighing whether to buy into the attendance zone.
Growth in Stony Point has been constrained for years by stalled redevelopment of the former Letchworth Village site, a long-vacant property the town owns. Publicly reported discussions through 2024 indicate that local officials have warned about the possibility of a meaningful decline in the school-age population over the next several years if housing development does not materialize, and anti-development sentiment remains a factor. The final direction of that redevelopment has not been resolved as of the available information.
Program offerings, staffing details, chronic absenteeism, and discipline data were not available in the records reviewed. Families looking at how the school structures intervention, enrichment, or supports for specific student populations should contact the school directly.
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