LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of compact scale in SYRACUSE, New York, overseen by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 338 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 31 schools operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 18,608 students overall.

Looking at the student body, LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 29% White, 14% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the resource side, On paper, LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.5%; actual is 27.9%, a gap of -26.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Onondaga County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is GRANT MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. LEMOYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 473 (now 338). Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 17% to 6%.

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