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PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER
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PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER is a secondary school of heavily attended scale in SYRACUSE, New York, part of SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 1,126 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER sits 69% bigger than that benchmark.
SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 31 schools with combined enrollment of 18,608 students; PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER is among them.
Looking at the student body, PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER reports that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 19% Hispanic, 15% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER higher than the state norm the norm. Around 89% 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.2%; this one comes in at 23.0%, -19.2 points off the demographic line.
In the broader community, census data for Onondaga County shows median household income runs about $76,945, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Onondaga County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is DELAWARE PRIMARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 16.1%.
PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER operates from a metropolitan location.
Five-year trend. PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLER's enrollment has rose 21% since 2018, when it stood at 933 (now 1,126). White enrollment moved from 22% to 15% across the same window.
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