Total enrollment
18,608
-491 (-3%) vs SY 2020-21
31 schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
New York · 18,608 students · 1 city
Of the 31 public K-12 schools run by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, combined student count is roughly 18,608, with 19 elementary, 6 middle, and 6 high.
4-year change in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25School count
31
+1 (+3%) vs SY 2020-21
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
How SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ranks
Among districts| Measure | This district | In New York | In the US |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #436 of 437 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 18,608 | #24 of 576 | #442 of 9,234 |
| Number of schools ranked most first | 31 | #30 of 576 | N/A |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #424 of 565 | #1,757 of 9,044 |
| Free or reduced-price lunch share ranked highest first | 78.8% | #27 of 573 | #1,307 of 8,164 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.5% | #45 of 425 | #683 of 6,853 |
Districts need at least 2 schools and 500 students to be ranked. Test proficiency is ranked within the state only, since each state gives a different test. Each rank links to the full list.
Inside SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
State test results across the district's 30 scored schools run from SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL at 56.2% proficient to DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL at 4.8%, a gap of 51.4 points. That is the 29th widest gap among 258 New York districts with four or more scored schools.
Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across each school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25; schools with fewer than 100 students and schools serving specialized populations are left out. Staffing figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data and count only schools that reported students and teachers in both years.
About SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is a thinly populated public-school district in New York. The district runs 31 schools and educates approximately 18,608 students.
For a sense of the school types, SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT spans 19 elementary, 6 middle, and 6 high schools.
On a per-school basis, SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs about 600 students per school, 16% above the state mean of roughly 519.
Over the past 4-year window. Across the same 4-year window, public-school enrollment fell 3%: 19,099 students in SY 2020-21 versus 18,608 in SY 2024-25. Over that span, SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT added 1 school, going from 30 to 31.
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