Fox Lane High School, Bedford NY

Original Research by School Decision on Fox Lane High School

Fox Lane High School is a mid-sized public high school in Bedford, a rural-to-exurban town of three distinct hamlets in northeastern Westchester County. The school serves grades nine through twelve and draws from an affluent, highly educated community with strong commitment to preserving open space and low-density residential character. The surrounding area is known for country estates, horse farms, and an equestrian culture shaped by long-standing four-acre residential zoning.

The school's student body reflects the demographic makeup of the town. About half the enrollment is white, with a substantial share identifying as Hispanic or Latino. A meaningful share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a higher proportion than typical in this zip code, indicating economic diversity within the school population. Data on state assessment results, four-year graduation rates, chronic absenteeism, and special populations including English learners were not available, so a reader cannot assess academic proficiency or student support outcomes from this report.

The immediate context is one of substantial physical change. In May 2022, voters approved a multi-school building bond to repair and modernize infrastructure across all district schools. Phase Two of that work, focused on the Fox Lane middle and high school campus, is underway through 2025, meaning new flooring, security vestibules, window replacements, and athletic field upgrades are actively reshaping the physical learning environment. A family touring the school would see spaces under active construction.

At the district level, Bedford Central Schools is navigating both instructional renewal and fiscal constraint. The district replaced its elementary reading program in 2024-25 with a science-of-reading-aligned curriculum after literacy proficiency rates fell short across elementary and middle grades. While this change does not directly affect high school, it signals the district's focus on foundational skill development and willingness to undertake curriculum overhaul. The district is also managing enrollment decline through modified zero-based budgeting, which has prompted staffing reductions and restructuring. A relocating family would want to understand the trajectory of enrollment and staffing as it affects class sizes, course availability, and school culture over the next few years.

The town of Bedford itself offers a distinctive residential setting. Property values in the area are substantial, reflecting the affluence and limited housing supply created by zoning constraints. The three hamlet centers—Bedford Hills, Bedford Village, and Katonah—each have distinct personalities and civic anchors. Metro-North rail service from Bedford Hills and Katonah provides direct access to Grand Central. Walking trails, parks, museums including the Katonah Museum of Art, and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts form a quieter cultural landscape than suburban areas closer to New York City. A corrective detail: the town's primary institutional employer is the state corrections complex in Bedford Hills, which shapes both employment and civic identity in ways relevant to understanding the community's economics and character.

Without state test results, graduation data, or detailed program information, a parent would need to contact the school directly to understand academic performance, course breadth, career pathways, special education capacity, and extracurricular offerings. The school is in the midst of substantive physical renewal, and the district is working through enrollment and budget questions that will likely shape its offerings and staffing in years ahead.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

86.0%Cohort of 366 students · Class of 2021

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

1,253 schools plotted. 14 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Advanced Placement & IB

23 subjects offered · 2023-24

Each card is one AP or IB subject. The headline number is the share of students scoring 3 or higher on the exam — the threshold for college credit at most universities. The bar below each rate shows the underlying distribution across performance levels.

Score:12· no credit345· extremely well qualified

Math and Computer Science

Calculus AB

31 tested

67.7%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

24 tested

87.5%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

18 tested

88.9%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

29 tested · Grade 10

86.2%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

21 tested · Grade 10

61.9%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

37 tested · Grade 9

91.9%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

35 tested · Grade 10

91.4%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

61 tested

77.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

27 tested · Grade 10

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

23 tested

78.3%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

9 tested

33.3%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

French Language and Culture

10 tested

80.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

11 tested

90.9%

scored 3 or higher

Japanese Language and Culture

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

65 tested · Grade 10

87.7%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Literature and Culture

13 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

6 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art Drawing

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

73 tested

76.7%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

8 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

13 tested

92.3%

scored 3 or higher

World History

95 tested · Grade 10

94.7%

scored 3 or higher

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Ela	302	89.0%
Social Studies	289	87.0%
Science	181	75.0%
Math	153	85.0%

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.