ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL

ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL operates as a micro-enrollment elementary school in NEDROW, New York, one of the schools within LAFAYETTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 120 students spanning grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 73% smaller than typical.

Within LAFAYETTE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 756 students, ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (99%).

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 5.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 57% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.9%; actual is 20.7%, a gap of -33.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Onondaga County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL is one.

WHEELER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.6%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOL has edged down 10%, going from 133 students in 2018 to 120 in 2025.

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