CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL

CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school of cozy scale in SYRACUSE, New York, operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 270 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 49% leaner than that benchmark.

SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 18,608 students; CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

Demographically, CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 66%; the rest comes out to 11% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL records 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.6%; actual is 16.6%, a gap of -26.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Onondaga County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

The closest other public school is EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 21.9%.

CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 24%: 355 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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