I ended up solving this issue by determining the height of the status/notification bar like so:
View globalView = ...; // the main view of my activity/application
DisplayMetrics dm = new DisplayMetrics();
this.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(dm);
int topOffset = dm.heightPixels - globalView.getMeasuredHeight();
View tempView = ...; // the view you'd like to locate
int[] loc = new int[2];
tempView.getLocationOnScreen(loc);
final int y = loc[1] - topOffset;