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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL this year?
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Enrollment
377
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362859006481
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL
900 S GEDDES ST, SYRACUSE, NY 13204 · (315) 435-4540 · Onondaga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL377 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 0% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
7.4:1
51 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
313 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 68 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 59 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 7 | 2% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (59).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
10.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
5.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.0% | 5.0% |
| 2023-24 | 3.0% | 3.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
4.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-39.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 5% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL's state test result (4.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL this school | 377 | 83.0% | 4.8% |
| SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW ROCHESTER | 332 | 81.0% | 24.3% |
| SCHOOL 42-ABELARD REYNOLDS ROCHESTER | 465 | 82.2% | 14.4% |
| PS 180 HUGO NEWMAN NEW YORK | 344 | 79.4% | 40.6% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 4 NEW YORK | 391 | 83.4% | 86.1% |
| PS 15 PATRICK F DALY BROOKLYN | 396 | 85.9% | 27.6% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 4.8% | #2,333 of 2,335 | #61 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.0% | #2,339 of 2,342 ▲ 1 | #61 of 61 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #2,335 of 2,343 ▲ 3 | #60 of 61 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 377 | #1,511 of 2,585 | #39 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.4:1 | #35 of 2,338 | #1 of 68 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.5% | #242 of 2,388 | #6 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.0% | #679 of 2,534 | #5 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.7% | #869 of 1,757 | #18 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
377
-138 (-27%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
7.4:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 377 | 51 | 7.4:1 | 83% (313) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 42.2 | 9.4:1 | 96% (379) |
| 2022-23 | 451 | 44.3 | 10.2:1 | 95% (429) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 46 | 11.2:1 | 94% (482) |
| 2017-18 | 442 | 29 | 15.2:1 | 96% (425) |
| 2015-16 | 233 | 18 | 12.9:1 | 76% (176) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
About DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL
SYRACUSE, New York, is home to DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment stands at 377 students, covering pre-K through 5.
District-wide, SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT has 31 schools and 18,608 students.
At DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL, Black students make up the biggest share, 43%. The remaining students are 30% Hispanic, 15% White, and 10% multiracial. Among people living in Onondaga County, the Black share is about 11%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 69%.
A staff of 51 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 7.4:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 83%. The gap from the 49% average for public schools in Onondaga County is 34 points.
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL holds an F allk12 Grade, placing it above 0% of New York public elementary schools.
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL is 39.7 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in New York.
Census data for Onondaga County show the median household earns about $76,945 a year, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL, Onondaga County has 123 public schools.
PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER sits about 0.4 miles from DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL is 9th among 9 schools close by.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 27% decline, from 515 to 377. The ratio was 11.2:1 in 2020-21 and 7.4:1 in 2024-25.
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Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 934 students
- HURLBUT W SMITH K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 776 students
Other schools in SYRACUSE
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- ONONDAGA-CORTLAND-MADISON BOCESCombined · 1,113 students
- SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 993 students
Nearby schools
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER0.4 mi · 1,126
- BELLEVUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.5 mi · 415
- SYRACUSE STEM AT BLODGETT0.6 mi · 369
- SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY0.8 mi · 448
- FRAZER K-8 SCHOOL0.9 mi · 774
- SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 993
Frequently asked questions
About DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL?
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 377 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL serve?
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 7.4:1 students per teacher at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL are roughly 15% White, 30% Hispanic, 43% Black, 2% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL public or private?
DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.