ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE

Set in SYRACUSE, Nebraska, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE is a mid-sized primary school, part of SYRACUSE-DUNBAR-AVOCA SCHOOLS. It serves 277 students across grades pre-K through 3.

Across the 3 schools in SYRACUSE-DUNBAR-AVOCA SCHOOLS (791 students total), ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE logs that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.0:1 average. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Otoe County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.3%; this one delivers 63.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Otoe County indicate median household earnings sit near $82,188, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE is one of 10 public schools in Otoe County (combined enrollment of about 2,543 students).

Nearest neighbor: MIDDLE SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AT SYRACUSE has decreased 6%, going from 296 students in 2018 to 277 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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