HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL

Located at 600 ROBINSON ST, in SYRACUSE, New York, HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL is a high-enrollment high school that instructs 1,483 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL sits 122% above that benchmark.

SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 18,608 students; HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL shows that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 19% White, 12% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL reports 112 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.1%; this one comes in at 24.7%, -20.4 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL is one.

HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOL has contracted 20%, going from 1,854 students in 2018 to 1,483 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 29% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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