Port Chester Senior High School, Port Chester NY

Original Research by School Decision on Port Chester Senior High School

Port Chester Senior High School serves a student body that is overwhelmingly Hispanic, with a very high share of students from low-income households. The school enrolls students across grades nine through twelve in a mid-sized school. State testing data for the school are not available; no state assessment results appear in the data, which typically reflects that high schools are not assessed on the same tested-grade framework as elementary and middle schools in New York.

The school's student composition mirrors Port Chester itself. The village is a dense, walkable community with a long industrial history and a culturally diverse population shaped by immigration from Latin America and the Caribbean. Downtown Port Chester sits around the Metro-North station and Main Street, and the school reflects a neighborhood where a very large majority of families have limited income and many households include speakers of multiple languages. The peer environment is concentrated, economically homogeneous, and drawn from a tight geographic area.

Port Chester is in the early stages of significant residential growth. Over the past few years, the village has approved or is constructing thousands of new housing units as part of form-based zoning and transit-oriented development centered on the downtown and waterfront. The former United Hospital site is being redeveloped into a large mixed-use community, and several hundred new apartments have been completed or are planned near the Metro-North station. This growth is shifting the village's housing market and economic profile, though it has not yet fundamentally altered the school's current enrollment makeup.

Within Westchester County's fifty-one school districts, Port Chester Senior High School ranks in the bottom quartile overall on proficiency across tested subjects and grades. A graduation rate was not reported for this school, and chronic absenteeism data were also absent. The school's course and program offerings are not documented in the available data. English learner enrollment and special education enrollment numbers were not provided, making it impossible to characterize the support infrastructure or specialized services the school delivers. A parent may want to reach out directly to the school to understand what pathways exist, what AP or dual-credit offerings are available, what supports exist for English learners, and how the school tracks and supports students across ability levels.

The Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District, of which this school is the only high school, has been in a phase of budget growth paired with sub-cap tax-levy increases each year. The district also launched a K-8 mathematics curriculum overhaul in 2023 aimed at problem-based, collaborative learning and alignment to state standards. A free, full-day universal pre-kindergarten program serves resident four-year-olds in partnership with a local Catholic school, a significant benefit for families with younger children.

Port Chester Senior High School is an open, unscreened public high school serving the high school population of a transit-rich, low-income, and rapidly changing village. Its strength lies in its role as the sole high school for the district and its integration into a community with excellent public transit access and a compact, walkable downtown. Its profile on state measures places it among the lower-performing districts in the county, and families should seek clarity from the school itself on its course breadth, support services, and outcomes across student groups before enrolling.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

83.0%Cohort of 439 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

35 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

41 tested

36.6%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

26 tested

61.5%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

8 tested · Grade 10

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

16 tested · Grade 10

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Environmental Science

25 tested

28.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics 2

12 tested

8.3%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

U.S. History

118 tested

64.4%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Italian Language and Culture

15 tested

73.3%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

151 tested · Grade 10

95.4%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Literature and Culture

17 tested

88.2%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Music Theory

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

International Baccalaureate

Ib Biology HL

4 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Biology SL

19 tested

68.4%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Chemistry HL

2 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Chemistry SL

30 tested

83.3%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Environmental Systems SL

10 tested

10.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Film SL

5 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib History Hl History of the Americas

25 tested

88.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language a Language and Literature English HL

118 tested

94.9%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language a Literature Spanish HL

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language Ab Initio French SL

14 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B English HL

20 tested

40.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B English SL

32 tested

84.4%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B Spanish HL

39 tested

41.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Language B Spanish SL

31 tested

45.2%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Mathematics Analysis and Approaches HL

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Mathematics Analysis and Approaches SL

27 tested

77.8%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Mathematics Applications and Interpretation SL

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Music HL

6 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Theatre Arts HL

3 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Ib Visual Arts SL

12 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

142 tested

24.6%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

120 tested

46.7%

scored 3 or higher

U S Government and Politics

86 tested

48.8%

scored 3 or higher

World History

41 tested · Grade 10

90.2%

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	429	80.0%
Science	412	68.0%
Social Studies	412	85.0%
Math	185	77.0%

Math

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 46% · ▼ 46 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 39% · ▼ 39 pts below district

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

Science

Grade 80%

School 0% · District 30% · ▼ 30 pts below district

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

This schoolPORT CHESTER-RYE 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.