FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in EAST SYRACUSE, New York, FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a cozy elementary-level community, run under EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 324 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Within EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 3,411 students, FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Black, 3% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 23% of students at FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 66.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

Nearest neighbor: WOODLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FREMONT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 324 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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