CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL

CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the well-populated four-year high schools in CICERO, New York, one of the schools within NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,748 students on its rolls from grades 10 through 12. That puts it 162% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,630 students. CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 6% multiracial, 6% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian. Compared to Onondaga County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 143 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 36% of students at CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Onondaga County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.6%, the actual is 72.8%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

Nearest neighbor: CICERO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has contracted 13% since 2018, when it stood at 2,012 (now 1,748). Over the same period, the White share fell from 85% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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