LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as an intimate elementary-level community in MATTYDALE, New York, run under NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades 1 through 3. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 44% smaller than that benchmark.

Within NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 11 schools and 7,630 students, LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 36% of students at LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.9%; this one delivers 48.3%.

Around the school, Onondaga County reports that median household income runs about $76,945, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at LAKESHORE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has declined 53%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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