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Enrollment
598
High
DISTRICT 986 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362859005977
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL
258 E ADAMS ST, SYRACUSE, NY 13202 · (315) 435-4300 · Onondaga County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL598 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
437 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 152 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 150 | 25% |
| Grade 11 | 135 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 146 | 24% |
| Ungraded | 15 | 3% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
62.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
30.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.0% | 30.0% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 46.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL's state test result (46.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL this school | 598 | 73.1% | 46.5% |
| BUFFALO ACADEMY FOR THE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS BUFFALO | 617 | 69.2% | 40.9% |
| CITY POLYTECHNIC HIGH SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 454 | 76.9% | 46.7% |
| AUGUST MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL JAMAICA | 643 | 79.8% | 47.3% |
| MOUNT VERNON STEAM ACADEMY MOUNT VERNON | 747 | 70.1% | 54.8% |
| GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCES SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 421 | 76.7% | 37.5% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.5% | #794 of 1,135 | #19 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.0% | #887 of 1,109 ▼ 192 | #19 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #754 of 1,135 ▼ 155 | #15 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 598 | #441 of 1,216 | #14 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #768 of 1,058 | #16 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.8% | #126 of 1,070 | #3 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.1% | #503 of 1,167 | #5 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.5% | #168 of 339 | N/A |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
598
+46 (+8%) vs 2020
+59% since 2010-11, when it was 375
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 12.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 598 | 47.9 | 12.5:1 | 73% (437) |
| 2023-24 | 568 | 51 | 11.1:1 | 72% (411) |
| 2022-23 | 581 | 46.1 | 12.6:1 | 69% (398) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 46 | 12.0:1 | 68% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 551 | 43.5 | 12.7:1 | 71% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 39 | 12.1:1 | 72% (342) |
| 2010-11 | 375 | 28 | 13.4:1 | 73% (274) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL.
About INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in SYRACUSE, New York. It covers grades 9 through 12, with a total enrollment of 598 students.
SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 18,608 students, and its 31 schools include INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL.
Black students make up a majority at INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL, at 51%. The remaining students are 20% White, 12% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 8% multiracial. Census figures show Onondaga County is about 11% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Its teaching staff equals 47.9 full-time positions, a ratio of 12.5:1. On average, high schools in New York have 11.0:1, compared with 12.5:1 here. Around 73% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 49% average among public schools in Onondaga County.
The allk12 Grade for INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL is C. Compared with New York public high schools, the school scored higher than 28% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL is 1.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Within Onondaga County, the median household income is $76,945, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. In all, Onondaga County has 123 public schools and roughly 67,044 students.
Of nearby public schools, ONONDAGA CNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT is the closest, at about 0.3 miles. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 13.8% proficiency; INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL posts 46.5%.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Enrollment is up 8% from 2020-21, when INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL had 552 students, to 2024-25, when it had 598.
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Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 934 students
- HURLBUT W SMITH K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 776 students
Other schools in SYRACUSE
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- ONONDAGA-CORTLAND-MADISON BOCESCombined · 1,113 students
- SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 993 students
Nearby schools
- ONONDAGA CNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT0.3 mi · 19
- SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY0.5 mi · 448
- STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.6 mi · 439
- SYRACUSE STEM AT BLODGETT0.8 mi · 369
- DR WEEKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 711
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER1.2 mi · 1,126
Frequently asked questions
About INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRALHow many students attend INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL?
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL enrolls approximately 598 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL serve?
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL?
Approximately 12.5:1 students per teacher at INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL.
What is the student diversity at INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL?
Student demographics at INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL are roughly 20% White, 12% Hispanic, 51% Black, 8% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL?
INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL is overseen by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Onondaga County.
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