The top reported proficiency rate is 99% in Social studies. The lowest is 84% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Murray Avenue School
Murray Avenue School is a kindergarten-through-fifth-grade neighborhood elementary school in Larchmont, part of the Mamaroneck Union Free School District. It sits on Murray Avenue in a walkable residential village on the Long Island Sound, a short trip by Metro-North to Grand Central, and it feeds into Hommocks Middle School and then Mamaroneck High School. Families choosing this school are really choosing an entry point into a full district pathway.
The academic picture at Murray Avenue is strong. On the New York State Testing Program, math proficiency rates across the three tested grades are very high, with third and fifth graders performing especially well and fourth graders close behind. ELA follows a similar pattern in third and fifth grade, though fourth-grade ELA proficiency is noticeably lower than the other grades and subjects, a gap worth asking the school about directly. Fifth-grade science proficiency is also high. Placed against districts across Westchester County, the school's overall proficiency index sits in the top quartile among the county's districts, a meaningful position in a county that includes some of New York's most competitive suburban schools.
Enrollment is sizeable for a single elementary school, with classes spread across all six grades. The student body is predominantly white, with smaller shares of Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students and very few students from lower-income households qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the sources we reviewed. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and carries no Title I designation.
For a family weighing the district's program offerings, the most concrete opportunity is Dos Caminos, a Spanish-English dual-language immersion program that publicly reported sources describe as having started as a single kindergarten class and grown into a district-wide K-12 pathway now extending through middle school and into AP-level coursework at the high school. Enrollment in that track is not tied to Murray Avenue specifically; a parent would want to confirm with the district how elementary placement intersects with dual-language access.
Larchmont itself is a small, built-out village. The housing market attached to this school zone is one of the most expensive in the state, with home values well above both state and national benchmarks and rents that carry a very high cost-to-income burden by any standard measure. Homes have been selling relatively quickly. New listings across Westchester County have pulled back compared to a year ago, tightening an already competitive market. A proposed multi-story apartment building near the train station has drawn local debate over height variances and the need for more workforce housing, which reflects the kind of incremental, transit-adjacent development pressure that characterizes a village with almost no undeveloped land.
The district passed a capital bond by wide margin in 2024, funding roof and masonry repairs, HVAC and mechanical upgrades, accessibility improvements, and food-service renovations across all six schools. Phase one work is publicly reported as complete at the middle school, high school, and Mamaroneck Avenue School, with additional phases scheduled over the coming years. The operating budget approved alongside that bond carried a tax levy increase kept under the state cap, with the district estimating that tax rates would actually edge down slightly based on assessed values.
Chronic absenteeism data and graduation rate data were not available for Murray Avenue; the graduation rate metric does not apply here because the school serves only elementary grades. Multi-year trend data for state testing was also not available, so it is not possible from this data to say whether the strong current proficiency figures represent a consistent pattern or recent movement.
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