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A Data User's Guide to School Performance, Home Values & Property Taxes

As parents go about choosing schools for their children, SchoolMatters.com can help them compare test results, graduation rates, demographics, and spending levels in different school districts. But parents thinking about buying a home also need information about real estate prices and tax burdens. They may want to know which districts have the highest performance for a given level of "affordability." This Guide shows how data from SchoolMatters can be combined with other public sources of information in New York to address this issue. For illustration purposes, this Guide presents a combination of indicators for 52 school districts in the lower Hudson Valley. Those indicators include:
  • each district's summary performance on 18 state tests, as measured by the percentage of scores that meet (Levels 3 & 4) or exceed (Level 4) state standards;
  • the median price of homes sold in each school district for more than $100,000;
  • the average residential property tax bill levied by each district;
  • the coefficient of dispersion (an estimate of how equitably property taxes are distributed among homeowners in the same city or town);
  • each district's total revenue per student; and
  • each district's proportional enrollment of economically-disadvantaged students.

A summary table of these indicators appears below. Each column heading can be clicked to sort the data by that indicator. More detailed information and a description of these indicators is found in the Guide, which can be downloaded by clicking on the link on the left side of this page. The Guide has been written to assist users in understanding and interpreting the data for themselves, since families have different needs and preferences.

Region's K-12 School Districts
K-12 District County 2006-07
Median
Price of
Homes Sold
for over
$100,000		 2005-06
Average
Residential
Property
Tax ($)		 2005-06
POST
Levels 3 & 4 (%)		 2005-06
POST
Level 4 (%)		 2005-06 Total
Revenue Per
Student
($)		 2005-06
Low
Income
Enrollment
(%)
Ardsley Westchester 725,000 7,124 92.4 37.6 20,493 2
Brewster Putnam 369,900 4,591 83.3 30.5 20,494 7
Briarcliff Manor Westchester 860,000 12,427 94.1 51.2 25,357 1
Bronxville Westchester 1,500,000 17,274 89.9 - 93.3 n.a. 25,640 0
Byram Hills Westchester 1,100,000 10,329 92.8 47.8 24,260 0
Carmel Putnam 347,700 4,383 79.3 26.4 18,749 8
Chappaqua Westchester 932,000 12,855 94.1 48.4 21,554 1
Croton-Harmon Westchester 540,000 5,101 87 32.1 20,182 0
Dobbs Ferry Westchester 684,000 8,533 84.4 34 22,692 9
Eastchester Westchester 645,000 5,237 90.2 41.3 20,023 0
Edgemont Westchester 907,500 10,103 91.1 46.2 20,095 0
Elmsford Westchester 524,000 4,121 68.2 17.5 24,588 21
Greenburgh #7 Westchester 545,875 2,864 69.4 17.6 30,337 29
Haldane Putnam 459,000 4,873 83.9 29.6 19,031 6
Harrison Westchester 1,301,504 9,054 85.5 32.8 24,825 7
Hastings-on-Hudson Westchester 740,000 7,911 89.8 39.3 20,398 4
North Rockland (Haverstraw-Stony Point) Rockland 390,700 3,261 70.4 21.6 21,522 29
Hendrick Hudson Westchester 469,250 3,477 80.2 26.3 20,790 5
Irvington Westchester 850,000 8,390 90.7 44.5 21,751 1
Katonah-Lewisboro Westchester 685,000 10,064 89.2 38.6 23,920 1
Lakeland Westchester 413,500 3,972 82.3 29.7 19,258 8
Mahopac Putnam 449,000 5,918 81.9 28.8 17,669 4
Mamaroneck Westchester 900,000 9,066 87.3 36.4 21,312 8
Bedford Westchester 885,000 8,402 82.9 31.1 23,221 15
Mount Vernon Westchester 518,800 3,340 59.1 13.3 17,166 58
Mount Pleasant Westchester 578,000 5,084 86 32.2 22,492 5
Nanuet Rockland 470,000 3,626 83.1 28.3 21,699 5
Clarkstown Rockland 523,250 4,458 86.6 33.7 14,596 6
New Rochelle Westchester 639,000 6,387 74.1 24.8 18,442 41
North Salem Westchester 724,000 8,264 90 36.4 25,755 2
Nyack Rockland 465,000 5,024 80.6 26.8 20,161 23
Ossining Westchester 480,000 5,061 67.2 21.3 22,107 30
Pearl River Rockland 450,000 5,033 88.6 36.2 18,103 4
Peekskill Westchester 350,000 1,823 56.7 12.1 21,927 40
Pelham Westchester 750,000 9,402 87.7 34.6 18,162 4
Pleasantville Westchester 572,500 6,265 90.7 39.9 18,930 1
Port Chester-Rye Westchester 515,000 3,754 75.8 20.8 15,856 50
Putnam Valley Putnam 387,000 6,062 81.4 26.3 20,623 8
Blind Brook-Rye Westchester 913,000 8,418 91.7 40.4 20,979 0
Rye Westchester 1,090,000 9,321 93.9 45.9 20,947 2
Rye Neck Westchester 700,000 8,351 89.9 42.4 19,557 5
Scarsdale Westchester 1,335,000 15,710 93.8 45.5 23,388 0
Somers Westchester 523,000 4,836 87.4 34.7 19,606 3
South Orangetown Rockland 507,500 4,990 84.4 33.2 18,806 6
East Ramapo Rockland 455,000 4,217 55.4 13.3 21,201 60
Ramapo Rockland 437,875 5,075 82.3 28.5 21,209 9
Tarrytowns Westchester 530,000 5,120 70.7 23.6 19,900 42
Tuckahoe Westchester 635,000 6,279 87 30.6 22,700 16
Valhalla Westchester 599,500 5,102 86.5 30.1 23,067 10
White Plains Westchester 486,418 3,681 71.5 22.3 23,578 34
Yonkers Westchester 499,000 2,860 53.9 12.6 18,678 72
Yorktown Westchester 525,000 5,980 86.1 35.1 18,561 2