L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in BALDWINSVILLE, New York, L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school, run under BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 467 students across grades pre-K through 5.

BALDWINSVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,400 students; L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 68.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put median household earnings sit near $76,945, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

The closest other public school is CATHERINE M MCNAMARA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 2.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 53.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. L PEARL PALMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 468 (now 467).

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