ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a medium-sized elementary-level community in ELBRIDGE, New York, overseen by JORDAN-ELBRIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 398 students, covering grades pre-K through 3.

ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by JORDAN-ELBRIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,143 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 38% of students at ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.9%; this one delivers 42.3%.

Across the wider county, Onondaga County reports that median household income runs about $76,945, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is JORDAN-ELBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 1.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ELBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 69.3%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 483 students in 2018 compared to 398 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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