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Enrollment
1,186
High
DISTRICT 1,467 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362121003001
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
5353 W TAFT RD, NORTH SYRACUSE, NY 13212 · (315) 218-3600 · Onondaga County
GRADES 08–09HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,186 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
110 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
524 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 8 | 606 | 51% |
| Grade 9 | 575 | 48% |
| Ungraded | 5 | 0% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL→CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
39.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -9.0pp since 2023
Math
65.1%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.0% | 65.1% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 65.8% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (50.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,186 | 44.2% | 50.9% |
| EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL EAST SYRACUSE | 1,185 | 43.3% | 68.2% |
| KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BUFFALO | 1,235 | 46.0% | 59.2% |
| KENMORE EAST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL TONAWANDA | 1,052 | 40.7% | 56.6% |
| NIAGARA-WHEATFIELD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL SANBORN | 1,041 | 40.1% | 81.2% |
| SPENCERPORT HIGH SCHOOL SPENCERPORT | 1,127 | 39.5% | 82.5% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.9% | #720 of 1,135 | #18 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.1% | #347 of 1,109 ▲ 73 | #11 of 24 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #1,076 of 1,135 ▼ 61 | #21 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,186 | #175 of 1,216 | #9 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #467 of 1,058 | #10 of 24 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.6% | #603 of 1,070 | #11 of 24 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.2% | #778 of 1,167 | #7 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.5% | #388 of 743 | #11 of 20 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,186
-112 (-9%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 1,376
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 12.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,186 | 110.4 | 10.7:1 | 44% (524) |
| 2023-24 | 1,208 | 110.7 | 10.9:1 | 47% (562) |
| 2022-23 | 1,272 | 112.1 | 11.3:1 | 49% (626) |
| 2020-21 | 1,298 | 107 | 12.1:1 | 37% (474) |
| 2017-18 | 1,340 | 100.6 | 13.3:1 | 37% (497) |
| 2015-16 | 1,411 | 96 | 14.7:1 | 34% (483) |
| 2010-11 | 1,527 | 114 | 13.4:1 | 26% (403) |
| 2000-01 | 1,699 | 122 | 13.9:1 | 19% (325) |
| 1990-91 | 1,376 | 124 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
About NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the public schools in NORTH SYRACUSE, New York. It is a large high school. The school's 1,186 students are in grades 8 through 9. Statewide, high schools in New York average about 668 students each.
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is among 11 schools run by NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which serves 7,630 students.
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 73% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Hispanic, and 6% Asian. The White share in Onondaga County as a whole is similar, at about 75%. NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 45%, against a US figure of 70%.
The count of teachers at NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is 110.4 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.7:1. That is close to the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 44%.
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is graded C by allk12, scoring above 26% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.9%, compared with a predicted 58.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Onondaga County (population about 471,129), the median household income is $76,945, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. There are 123 public schools in Onondaga County, enrolling about 67,044 students in all.
The next-closest public school is ALLEN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 0.8 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 1,186, a 9% decrease from 1,298 in 2020-21. The number of students per teacher fell from 12.1 to 10.7 over 4 years.
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Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- CICERO-NORTH SYRACUSE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,748 students
- GILLETTE ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,101 students
- ROXBORO ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 697 students
- CICERO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SMITH ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 553 students
- KARL W SAILE BEAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 537 students
Other schools in NORTH SYRACUSE
- SMITH ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 553 students
- KARL W SAILE BEAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 537 students
- ALLEN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 326 students
- MAIN STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 236 students
Nearby schools
- ALLEN ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 326
- MAIN STREET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 236
- KARL W SAILE BEAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 537
- ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 400
- DONLIN DRIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.7 mi · 398
- ROXBORO ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL1.7 mi · 697
Frequently asked questions
About NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,186 students in grades 08-09.
Is NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 08-09.
How many teachers does NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL have?
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL employs 110 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
How diverse is NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL?
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 73% White, 6% Hispanic, 7% Black, 6% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
NORTH SYRACUSE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.