White Plains Senior High School, White Plains NY

Original Research by School Decision on White Plains Senior High School

White Plains Senior High School is a comprehensive public high school serving grades nine through twelve in the county's dominant economic center. With an enrollment of about two thousand students, it is a mid-sized school by Westchester standards, drawing from a diverse, densely urban district.

The student body reflects White Plains' demographic character as a hub of Latino and immigrant communities. About two-thirds of students identify as Hispanic or Latino. Black students and white students together comprise roughly a quarter of the school, and Asian students a smaller share. Nearly three-fifths of the school's enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating substantial economic need. State testing data and graduation rates were not available for this school, so readers cannot assess academic proficiency or completion outcomes from state-reported figures.

The school sits on a seventy-five-acre campus at North Street, removed from downtown. This placement on an expansive, separated campus is typical of regional high schools and means the daily environment is more suburban in feel than the walkable, transit-oriented downtown just south. The campus gives room for athletic fields and other facilities, but students must travel north from the more densely built central city where employment, transit, and civic life cluster.

White Plains itself is undergoing substantial growth and reshaping. The downtown is a high-density, mixed-use core with apartments, restaurants, and offices filling new towers, and it functions as the economic and political center of Westchester County. Metro-North rail service from downtown White Plains offers access to Midtown Manhattan in about thirty minutes, making the city attractive to commuters. At the same time, the broader housing market in the area is moderately expensive; median home values run well above state and national medians, and rental costs have grown at an accelerated pace over the past year. Affordability is tight for renters and buyers alike, though some new affordable units have been added through redevelopment projects.

The White Plains City School District has managed tax levy growth below the state cap for eight consecutive years, a pattern of fiscal restraint that affects property-tax burden. District officials report that programs and services have not been cut under this approach, though the district has faced structural revenue constraints from tax abatement agreements tied to downtown development, a dynamic that may shape long-term budget room.

No data on school-wide AP offerings, dual enrollment, career pathways, or specialized programs were available for this school. The school website listed in the system was not accessed during research, so prospective families may want to review it directly for course catalog, college-and-career supports, and extracurricular offerings. Civil-rights outcomes such as disciplinary patterns or staff diversity were also not reported. In the absence of state assessment or graduation data, and without program-level detail, readers should speak directly with the school to understand the academic curriculum, student support services, and opportunities available to ninth through twelfth graders.

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Academic performance

How students graduate and prepare for what comes next.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

92.0%Cohort of 533 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

26 tested

92.3%

scored 3 or higher

Calculus BC

26 tested

96.2%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science A

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Computer Science Principles

19 tested · Grade 10

73.7%

scored 3 or higher

Statistics

47 tested · Grade 10

48.9%

scored 3 or higher

Sciences

Biology

26 tested

80.8%

scored 3 or higher

Chemistry

8 tested

62.5%

scored 3 or higher

Environmental Science

26 tested

76.9%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Physics C: Mechanics

18 tested

50.0%

scored 3 or higher

History and Social Sciences

Comparative Government and Politics

21 tested

76.2%

scored 3 or higher

European History

1 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

Psychology

50 tested

54.0%

scored 3 or higher

U.S. History

139 tested

80.6%

scored 3 or higher

World Languages and Cultures

Chinese Language and Culture

5 tested

0.0%

scored 3 or higher

French Language and Culture

10 tested · Grade 10

40.0%

scored 3 or higher

Italian Language and Culture

16 tested

75.0%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Language and Culture

72 tested · Grade 10

90.3%

scored 3 or higher

Spanish Literature and Culture

10 tested

90.0%

scored 3 or higher

Arts

Studio Art Drawing

8 tested

100.0%

scored 3 or higher

Other

Language and Comp

151 tested

51.0%

scored 3 or higher

Literature and Comp

47 tested

74.5%

scored 3 or higher

World History

143 tested · Grade 10

78.3%

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	596	87.0%
Social Studies	570	86.0%
Science	565	70.0%
Math	57	18.0%

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.