FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL

FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL operates as a reasonably sized elementary school in CORTLAND, New York, one of the schools within CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 417 students spanning grades pre-K through 2.

CORTLAND CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,836 students; FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Black, 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 64% of students at FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Cortland County runs at roughly 48%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Cortland County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $70,418 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Cortland County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,381 students), FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CORTLAND HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. FRANKLYN S BARRY PRIMARY SCHOOL's enrollment has increased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 417).

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