ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a compact elementary school in SYRACUSE, New York, one of the schools within WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolls 322 students, covering grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 27% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

WEST GENESEE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,543 students; ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 2% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 31.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Onondaga County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 65.5%; ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 45.8%, -19.8 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) shows 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. ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

WALBERTA PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 60.9%.

ONONDAGA ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 353 students in 2018 compared to 322 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 31.4:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.