MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL

Set in MARCELLUS, New York, MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL is a compact senior high, run under MARCELLUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 435 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 35% leaner than typical.

MARCELLUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,407 students. MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL shows that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 3% multiracial. By comparison, Onondaga County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.5%, the actual is 84.6%, a residual of +18.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is K C HEFFERNAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MARCELLUS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 72.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 544 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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