ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL

ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL operates as a medium-sized intermediate school in SYRACUSE, New York, part of WESTHILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 575 students spanning grades 5 through 8.

Across the 4 schools in WESTHILL CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,714 students total), ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 8% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put median household income runs about $76,945, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

Nearest neighbor: CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, ONONDAGA HILL MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 3%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 575 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 88% to 78% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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