GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the average-sized primary schools in ROME, New York, overseen by ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 397 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,196 students; GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 64% of the student body identifies as White; the rest consists of 18% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 80% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oneida County runs at roughly 47%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 45.7%; GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 10.5%, -35.2 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, Oneida County reports that median household income runs about $70,154, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LYNDON H STROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 25%: 317 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 14% to 6%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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