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Enrollment
711
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362859003853
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
710 HAWLEY AVE, SYRACUSE, NY 13203 · (315) 435-4097 · Onondaga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL711 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% 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.
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
14.4:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
577 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 | 45 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 118 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 128 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 95 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (95).
Student demographics
62%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
23.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
20.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 20.0% |
| 2023-24 | 17.0% | 20.0% |
% 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
18.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% 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 DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (18.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 711 | 81.2% | 18.1% |
| ROBERTS K-8 SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 641 | 78.9% | 16.6% |
| HURLBUT W SMITH K-8 SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 776 | 75.4% | 22.0% |
| FRAZER K-8 SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 774 | 86.3% | 16.6% |
| BENNETT PARK MONTESSORI SCHOOL BUFFALO | 612 | 75.5% | 17.1% |
| WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 650 | 78.9% | 24.6% |
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 DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #2,266 of 2,335 | #53 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.0% | #2,258 of 2,342 ▼ 32 | #52 of 61 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #2,253 of 2,343 ▼ 22 | #51 of 61 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 711 | #255 of 2,585 | #5 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #1,944 of 2,338 | #48 of 68 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #592 of 2,388 | #13 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.2% | #735 of 2,534 | #6 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #1,227 of 1,757 | #33 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
711
-17 (-2%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 802
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 711 | 49.3 | 14.4:1 | 81% (577) |
| 2023-24 | 682 | 49 | 13.9:1 | 92% (628) |
| 2022-23 | 714 | 47.6 | 15.0:1 | 91% (648) |
| 2020-21 | 728 | 49 | 14.9:1 | 90% (653) |
| 2017-18 | 780 | 51 | 15.3:1 | 94% (731) |
| 2015-16 | 768 | 47 | 16.3:1 | 82% (631) |
| 2010-11 | 757 | 53 | 14.3:1 | 91% (688) |
| 2000-01 | 692 | 49 | 14.1:1 | 87% (605) |
| 1990-91 | 802 | 60 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary school with a street address in SYRACUSE, New York. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 711 students on the rolls. On average, elementary schools in New York enroll around 443, and this school is 60% bigger than that mark.
SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT counts 18,608 students in its 31 schools, and DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 57% Black. The next largest groups are 15% White, 13% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 7% multiracial. The school's Black share is 46 points above the 11% share among Onondaga County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.
On staff are 49.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.4:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 81%. Across public schools in Onondaga County, the average is 49%.
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 2% of New York public elementary schools.
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a bottom-10% school in New York on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 18.1% against a predicted 45.1%.
Census data for Onondaga County show the median household earns about $76,945 a year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Onondaga County number 123, with about 67,044 students.
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.7 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on average proficiency.
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is coded as City: Mid-size in federal locale data.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 728 in 2020-21, 711 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
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL0.7 mi · 1,483
- LINCOLN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 476
- FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 678
- ONONDAGA CNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT0.9 mi · 19
- SALEM HYDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 466
- HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOL1.2 mi · 934
Frequently asked questions
About DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 711 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 14.4:1 students per teacher at DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 15% White, 13% Hispanic, 57% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY 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.