Main Street School School (4-5), Irvington NY

Original Research by School Decision on Main Street School School (4-5)

Main Street School serves grades four and five in Irvington, a small, preservation-minded Hudson River village in Westchester County. The school is embedded in the residential fabric of town rather than on a separate campus, sitting on Main Street near the village's downtown commercial and civic core. Enrollment is small, with a combined fourth and fifth grade body that is predominantly white, with meaningful representation of Hispanic students and smaller populations of Asian and multiracial students. A small share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Academic performance is a clear strength. Both grade levels show strong proficiency in math, with roughly four in five students reaching proficiency or above on the state assessment in each grade. English language arts proficiency is similarly solid across both grades, landing in the low-to-mid eighties. Fifth grade students also took the state science assessment, where roughly three in four reached proficiency. Across tested subjects and grades, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile relative to districts in Westchester County.

The school participates in New York's state testing program; test results for grades four and five are available in math, English language arts, and science. Data on students with individualized education plans and English learners is not reported in publicly available sources, nor is information on specialized programming, staff composition, or daily attendance. The school does not have a graduation rate because it does not serve high school grades.

Irvington itself is a built-out village where major civic and institutional anchors—Village Hall, the library, the theater, the farmers market, the Metro-North station—sit downtown on or near Main Street. The two elementary schools, Dows Lane (K-3) and Main Street, are neighborhood schools within this downtown-centered community. The middle and high school share a separate hilltop campus on Heritage Hill. The village has waterfront parks and trails, independent shops and sidewalk cafes, and is widely described as walkable for daily life, though most households still rely on a car for grocery shopping and larger retail errands. The housing market is expensive; the median home value is substantially higher than state and national benchmarks, and monthly rent is well above the national median. A debt-neutral capital bond project is in design phase to address school safety, maintenance, and learning-space modernization across district buildings. The district also restructured its instructional calendar so that the first semester ends before the winter break and the school year starts earlier, a structural change that affects exam timing and family planning year over year.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 488%

School 88% · District 88%

▲ 29 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 587%

School 87% · District 87%

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 483%

School 83% · District 83%

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 584%

School 84% · District 84%

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

Science

Grade 578%

School 78% · District 78%

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 30 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 599%

School 99% · district not reported

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

This schoolIRVINGTON UNION FREE 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-income60%Higher-income84%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income87%37 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income40%Higher-income91%51 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income42%Higher-income91%50 pp gap