BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 9530 BREWERTON RD, in BREWERTON, New York, BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that educates 384 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by CENTRAL SQUARE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 6 schools in CENTRAL SQUARE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,458 students total), BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest looks like 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Onondaga County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.1%, the actual is 63.5%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) records that median household income runs about $76,945, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

CENTRAL SQUARE MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 54.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. BREWERTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 432 (now 384). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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