NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in ITHACA, New York, NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL is a very small four-year high school, part of NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL. It teaches 98 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL sits 85% leaner than that benchmark.

NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Around 57% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Tompkins County's rate of about 36%.

With demographic context factored in, NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.0%; NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL posts 77.0%, +23.0 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Tompkins County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,024 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Tompkins County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,392 students), NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BEVERLY J MARTIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 56.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. NEW ROOTS CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 142 (now 98). The White share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 56% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 7.1:1 today.

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