PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in FULTON, New York, one of the schools within MEXICO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 216 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits 51% leaner than that benchmark.

Within MEXICO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 5 schools and 2,064 students, PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (94%) are White; the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Oswego County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 61.0%; this one comes in at 29.3%, -31.7 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Oswego County put median household earnings sit near $69,183, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Oswego County's 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,529 students), PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: VOLNEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 6.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PALERMO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has expanded 4%, going from 208 students in 2018 to 216 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 today.

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