FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in CORTLAND, New York, overseen by CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 291 students in grades 3 through 4. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 1,836 students, FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports that nearly all students (90%) are White; the rest looks like 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic, 2% Black. Compared to Cortland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 62% of students at FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Cortland County's rate of about 48%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 52.4%; this one comes in at 29.6%, -22.7 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cortland County indicate median household income runs about $70,418, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Cortland County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,381 students), FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: HOMER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. FE SMITH INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 16% since 2018, when it stood at 251 (now 291). Over the same period, the White share ticked up from 84% to 90%.

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