HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized primary school in HOMER, New York, overseen by HOMER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 443 students spanning grades 3 through 5.

HOMER CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,828 students; HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. Compared to Cortland County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.0%; actual is 38.8%, a gap of -21.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cortland County) shows that median household earnings sit near $70,418, 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), HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is HOMER JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Looking at the recent track record. HOMER INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has expanded 4% since 2018, when it stood at 428 (now 443).

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