DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL

DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in SYRACUSE, New York, run under SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 377 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 31 schools operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 18,608 students overall.

On demographics, DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 15% White, 10% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 7.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.5%; DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL posts 4.8%, -39.7 points below that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put median household income runs about $76,945, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 15% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 377). Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 43% to 30%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 7.4:1 in 2025.

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