CLOUGH PREK CENTER

CLOUGH PREK CENTER is one of the tight-knit elementary schools in ROME, New York, overseen by ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 206 students on its rolls from grade pre-K. That puts it 53% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 5,196 students, CLOUGH PREK CENTER is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, CLOUGH PREK CENTER logs that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oneida County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Oneida County) logs that median household earnings sit near $70,154, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), CLOUGH PREK CENTER is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROME FREE ACADEMY, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CLOUGH PREK CENTER.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. CLOUGH PREK CENTER's enrollment has decreased 31% since 2018, when it stood at 300 (now 206). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 82% to 72%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.