BRIGHTON ACADEMY

BRIGHTON ACADEMY operates as a low-enrollment junior high in SYRACUSE, New York, run under SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 363 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 32% leaner than typical.

Across the 31 schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (18,608 students total), BRIGHTON ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, BRIGHTON ACADEMY shows that Black students make up the majority at 72%; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting BRIGHTON ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Onondaga County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BRIGHTON ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.1%; BRIGHTON ACADEMY posts 13.6%, -26.5 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,945, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Onondaga County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), BRIGHTON ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MCKINLEY-BRIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BRIGHTON ACADEMY. On composite proficiency, BRIGHTON ACADEMY comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

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