FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Set in FULTON, New York, FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school, overseen by FULTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 472 students across grades 7 through 8.

FULTON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,005 students. FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Oswego County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 44.8%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Oswego County put median household income runs about $69,183, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Oswego County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students), of which FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

G RAY BODLEY HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.5%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. FULTON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 479 (now 472). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 2% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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