diff --git a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
index b5939823acf242..1df358fad1e11d 100644
--- a/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
+++ b/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/NativeViewHierarchyManager.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 import javax.annotation.concurrent.NotThreadSafe;
 
+import android.content.res.Resources;
 import android.util.SparseArray;
 import android.util.SparseBooleanArray;
 import android.view.Menu;
@@ -483,7 +484,7 @@ public void measure(int tag, int[] outputBuffer) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Returns the coordinates of a view relative to the entire phone screen (not just the RootView
+   * Returns the coordinates of a view relative to the window (not just the RootView
    * which is what measure will return)
    *
    * @param tag - the tag for the view
@@ -499,6 +500,15 @@ public void measureInWindow(int tag, int[] outputBuffer) {
 
     v.getLocationOnScreen(outputBuffer);
 
+    // We need to remove the status bar from the height.  getLocationOnScreen will include the
+    // status bar.
+    Resources resources = v.getContext().getResources();
+    int statusBarId = resources.getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
+    if (statusBarId > 0) {
+      int height = (int) resources.getDimension(statusBarId);
+      outputBuffer[1] -= height;
+    }
+
     // outputBuffer[0,1] already contain what we want
     outputBuffer[2] = v.getWidth();
     outputBuffer[3] = v.getHeight();