ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL

ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is a senior high of micro-enrollment scale in SYRACUSE, New York, overseen by ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL, educateing 254 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL sits 62% smaller than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL shows that Black students make up the majority at 78%; the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 9% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 1% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 74.6%; ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL posts 17.2%, -57.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is one.

PORTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting. ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the ONTECH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.