New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle NY

Original Research by School Decision on New Rochelle High School

New Rochelle High School sits on North Avenue at Eastchester Road, fronted by a city park with fishing lakes and a walking trail. It is the sole high school for the New Rochelle City School District, which serves a city on the Long Island Sound that has been reshaping its downtown through a sustained wave of transit-oriented development. The school is large by most measures for a single-building high school, serving students across all four grade levels with a student body that is majority Hispanic, with substantial Black and white populations and a smaller Asian share. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic range of a city whose housing market sits well above both state and national benchmarks while also containing extensive multi-family and rental stock.

On state assessment results, there is a gap worth naming directly. The data shows grade eight scores assigned to this school, but New Rochelle High School serves grades nine through twelve only. Grade eight is not part of its grade band, and the zeroed-out tested counts confirm that no students at this school sat for the New York State eighth-grade assessments. This is not a performance result; it is a structural mismatch between how the state allocated data and what the school actually is. Meaningful state proficiency data for the high school was not available in this dataset. The school's standing in the comparison set of Westchester County districts, which is based on a proficiency index drawn from tested grades, reflects this missing data rather than observed outcomes. Parents who want a picture of academic attainment here should seek the school's Regents exam passage rates and AP participation and pass rate data directly from the district or the school's own reporting.

Publicly reported information describes a school with a long-established presence in the region. The district as a whole is navigating meaningful fiscal pressure. Voters approved a budget for the current school year that required overriding the state tax cap, and the district closed a substantial gap partly by eliminating a large number of staff positions across the district, adjusting class sizes, and restructuring some scheduling. A follow-on budget for the coming school year was also approved by voters, again with position reductions, alongside a separate capital bond covering safety and building systems work. Families considering a move into the district should weigh these dynamics, particularly around class sizes and program staffing, and may want to ask the school directly about how the cuts have affected course offerings and support staff at the high school level. A new charter school approved by the state is set to open in the district in the fall of 2026, adding a choice option for younger grades and drawing funds from the district's budget.

The surrounding city gives students real access to transit. Metro-North's New Haven Line runs express to Grand Central in just over half an hour, the downtown is walkable from the train station, and a free on-demand shuttle circulates through the core. The downtown itself is in active transformation, with high-rise residential towers clustered near the transit hub, new ground-floor commercial space coming online, and infrastructure investments in parking and retail. The neighborhood immediately around the high school is more traditionally suburban in character than the developing downtown. Major institutional employers include a large teaching hospital affiliated with a major academic medical center and Iona University, which anchors employment and gives the area a higher-education presence.

Housing in the zip codes around the school is expensive, with typical home values well above the state midpoint and monthly rents that represent a substantial share of a typical household's income. The Westchester County market overall carries low inventory and moves relatively quickly, though active listings have been gradually rising. Renters and buyers both face a cost environment that is considerably more demanding than national norms.

Chronic absenteeism and graduation rate data were not available in this dataset; those are two metrics a parent would reasonably want before drawing conclusions about outcomes here, and the district or the state's public school report cards would be the place to look.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

82.0%Cohort of 831 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

31 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

77 tested

75.3%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

45 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

32 tested

37.5%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

88 tested · Grade 9, Grade 10

60.2%

scored 3 or higher

Precalculus

36 tested

63.9%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

62 tested

43.5%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

45 tested · Grade 10

86.7%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

11 tested · Grade 10

45.5%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

36 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 1

57 tested · Grade 10

50.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

14 tested

57.1%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

16 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

English

Research

11 tested

72.7%

scored 3 or higher

Seminar

17 tested

94.1%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

European History

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Human Geography

35 tested · Grade 10

57.1%

scored 3 or higher

Macroeconomics

43 tested

79.1%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

51 tested

47.1%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

166 tested · Grade 10

78.9%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

6 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

8 tested · Grade 10

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

68 tested · Grade 10

85.3%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Literature and Culture

17 tested

58.8%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

9 tested

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

146 tested

69.2%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

62 tested

83.9%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 2d Design

12 tested · Grade 10

66.7%

scored 3 or higher

Studio Art 3d Design

7 tested · Grade 10

57.1%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

61 tested

68.9%

scored 3 or higher

World History

187 tested · Grade 10

64.7%

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
Math	814	43.0%
Ela	770	80.0%
Social Studies	762	75.0%
Science	252	29.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 35% · ▼ 35 pts below district

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 52% · ▼ 52 pts below district

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 53 pts below county median

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 37% · ▼ 37 pts below district

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

This schoolNEW ROCHELLE CITY 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.