Family School 32, Yonkers NY - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Family School 32

Family School 32 sits on Montclair Place in Yonkers, serving children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade within the Yonkers City School District. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and draws from one of the largest and most densely populated cities in New York State. Yonkers is the third-largest city in the state, a place of distinct neighborhoods where downtown waterfront revitalization coexists with ongoing concerns about displacement and rising costs. The school's zip code reflects a housing market that is considerably more expensive than both the state and national medians, with home values well above the statewide benchmark and rents that represent a substantial share of a typical household's income.

The school's student body is majority Hispanic, with meaningful shares of white and Black students and a smaller Asian population. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which makes this a school serving a predominantly economically disadvantaged community. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs were not reported in the available records, so a parent wanting to understand those support structures would want to ask the school directly.

On state assessments, the picture has a clear shape. In the earlier tested grades, math proficiency runs above half of students, which is a genuine strength relative to the school's broader context. English language arts proficiency in the lower grades sits just below that, in the upper forties. As students move into the middle grades, both subjects trend downward, and by eighth grade math proficiency drops to roughly the lower third of students. The eighth-grade science result is particularly low and also shows a very low participation rate, which may reflect how the assessment was administered or which students were counted; a parent would want to ask the school what accounts for that specific gap. Fifth-grade science proficiency is closer to the school's ELA average. Social studies data in the available records comes only from a much earlier school year and cannot be meaningfully compared to the current results. Across all tested subjects and grades combined, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Westchester County. That is the honest picture, and it is worth naming plainly.

No trend data was available to show whether performance is improving or declining over time, so it is not possible to say from the data whether the current results represent a low floor or a direction of change.

The district itself is in a period of notable institutional movement. A new dual-language community school, the first built in Yonkers in a generation, opened in fall 2024 and includes a neighborhood health clinic. A second new school has been announced for a former housing site near Grant Park, part of a longer-term rebuilding plan that covers all existing school buildings. At the same time, the district voted to close Museum School 25 at the end of the 2024-25 school year, affecting families who chose it and requiring them to re-enter the selection process. Yonkers is also one of only two districts in New York State governed under mayoral control rather than an elected school board, a structural fact that shapes how much formal voice parents have in district decisions and that has drawn state-level attention in recent years.

Program details specific to Family School 32, including any enrichment offerings, bilingual programs, or student support services the school runs, were not available in the data provided. Given the school's enrollment size and grade band, a visiting family would want to ask about intervention supports in the upper middle school grades, where the test data raises questions worth exploring directly with school leadership.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

New York Regents Exams

1 course 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
Science	48	33.0%

Math

Grade 357%

School 57% · District 50% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Grade 454%

School 54% · District 53%

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 540%

School 40% · District 43% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 639%

School 39% · District 45% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 737%

School 37% · District 45% · ▼ 8 pts below district

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

Grade 830%

School 30% · District 38% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 348%

School 48% · District 49% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 46% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 544%

School 44% · District 50% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 640%

School 40% · District 45% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 733%

School 33% · District 47% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 45% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Science

Grade 548%

School 48% · District 35% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 7 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 810%

School 10% · District 17% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 579%

School 79% · district not reported

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 828%

School 28% · district not reported

▼ 50 pts below state median · ▼ 60 pts below county median

This schoolYONKERS 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income39%Higher-income67%28 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income52%Higher-income44%8 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income31%Higher-income64%33 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income33%Higher-income56%22 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income26%Higher-income58%32 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income35%Higher-income71%36 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income48%Higher-income73%25 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income49%Higher-income61%12 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income26%Higher-income60%34 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income28%Higher-income61%33 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income30%Higher-income58%28 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income24%Higher-income57%33 pp gap