JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in JORDAN, New York, JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intimate intermediate school, part of JORDAN-ELBRIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 409 students across grades 3 through 8. That puts it 23% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

JORDAN-ELBRIDGE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,143 students. JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). By comparison, Onondaga County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 43% of students at JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.3%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -13.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put median household income runs about $76,945, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

Nearest neighbor: JORDAN-ELBRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 54.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. JORDAN-ELBRIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 426 (now 409). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

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