FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL

Located at 716 ACADEMY ST, in FULTON, New York, FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community that hosts 390 students (grades pre-K through 6), one of the schools within FULTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL is one of 6 schools operated by FULTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 3,005 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL logs that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Oswego County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oswego County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 49.9%; this one comes in at 16.5%, -33.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Oswego County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,183, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Oswego County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students), of which FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL is one.

VOLNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Over the past 7-year window. FAIRGRIEVE SCHOOL's enrollment has decreased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 390). Over the same period, the White share declined from 90% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 8.9:1 today.

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