HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As an intimate elementary school in UTICA, New York, HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves 371 students from grades K through 6, overseen by UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Within UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 13 schools and 9,075 students, HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 43%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 18% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.8%; this one delivers 39.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Oneida County put median household income runs about $70,154, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

NEW HARTFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 473 (now 371). Over the same period, the White share fell from 54% to 43%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.