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Enrollment
1,512
High
DISTRICT 577 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362490003449
ROME FREE ACADEMY
95 DART CIRCLE, ROME, NY 13441 · (315) 334-7203 · Oneida County
GRADES 09–12HIGH31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,512 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
114 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.5:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
53%
797 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 368 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 405 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 342 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 378 | 25% |
| Ungraded | 19 | 1% |
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
85.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
26.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 85 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 85.0% | 26.0% |
| 2023-24 | 92.0% | 43.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
55.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ROME FREE ACADEMY
ROME FREE ACADEMY's state test result (55.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROME FREE ACADEMY this school | 1,512 | 52.7% | 55.3% |
| AUBURN HIGH SCHOOL AUBURN | 1,176 | 56.0% | 65.2% |
| UNION-ENDICOTT HIGH SCHOOL ENDICOTT | 1,078 | 49.2% | 71.7% |
| KENMORE WEST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BUFFALO | 1,235 | 46.0% | 59.2% |
| LOCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL LOCKPORT | 1,377 | 62.3% | 69.2% |
| TONAWANDA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL TONAWANDA | 891 | 50.5% | 52.6% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ROME FREE ACADEMY ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Oneida County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.3% | #635 of 1,135 | #14 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #945 of 1,109 ▼ 220 | #15 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 85.0% | #327 of 1,135 ▼ 106 | #8 of 15 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,512 | #94 of 1,216 | #2 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #855 of 1,058 | #12 of 14 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.4% | #677 of 1,070 | #2 of 14 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.7% | #664 of 1,167 | #2 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.4% | #277 of 339 | #7 of 7 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,512
-41 (-3%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 1,399
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,512 | 114.2 | 13.2:1 | 53% (797) |
| 2023-24 | 1,497 | 110.5 | 13.6:1 | 52% (781) |
| 2022-23 | 1,511 | 108.7 | 13.9:1 | 51% (766) |
| 2020-21 | 1,553 | 104 | 14.9:1 | 56% (866) |
| 2017-18 | 1,477 | 111 | 13.3:1 | 53% (784) |
| 2015-16 | 1,459 | 102 | 14.3:1 | 52% (759) |
| 2010-11 | 1,612 | 126 | 12.8:1 | 35% (566) |
| 2000-01 | 1,230 | 87 | 14.1:1 | 15% (181) |
| 1990-91 | 1,399 | 103 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ROME FREE ACADEMY.
About ROME FREE ACADEMY
ROME, New York, is home to ROME FREE ACADEMY, a large high school. The school offers grades 9 through 12 and enrolls 1,512 students. Across high schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 668.
The ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT system has 9 schools and 5,196 students.
The student body at ROME FREE ACADEMY is 76% White. Beyond that, enrollment is 10% Hispanic and 10% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 40, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 13.2 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at ROME FREE ACADEMY, which has 114.2. High schools in New York have an average ratio of 11.0:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 53%.
Among New York public high schools, ROME FREE ACADEMY outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 55.6% at ROME FREE ACADEMY; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 55.3%.
Census data for Oneida County show the median household earns about $70,154 a year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Counting ROME FREE ACADEMY, Oneida County has 72 public schools.
ROME FREE ACADEMY is about 0.4 miles from BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. In a group of 7 nearby schools with scores, ROME FREE ACADEMY ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Locale: Town: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in a town close to an urbanized area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 1,512, from 1,553 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.9:1 to 13.2:1 over the same years.
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Oneida County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
229,124
Census ACS
Median income
$70,154
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
32,265 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- LYNDON H STROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- LOUIS V DENTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 598 students
- BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 544 students
- GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
- RIDGE MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 388 students
- STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 368 students
Other schools in ROME
- LYNDON H STROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- LOUIS V DENTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 598 students
- BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 544 students
- GANSEVOORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
- RIDGE MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 388 students
- STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 368 students
Nearby schools
- BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 544
- CLOUGH PREK CENTER1.0 mi · 206
- NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF2.3 mi · 46
- RIDGE MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.4 mi · 388
- LYNDON H STROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL2.7 mi · 817
- LOUIS V DENTI ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.8 mi · 598
Frequently asked questions
About ROME FREE ACADEMYWhat is the total enrollment at ROME FREE ACADEMY?
ROME FREE ACADEMY enrolls approximately 1,512 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does ROME FREE ACADEMY serve?
ROME FREE ACADEMY serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does ROME FREE ACADEMY have?
ROME FREE ACADEMY employs 114 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.2:1.
How diverse is ROME FREE ACADEMY?
ROME FREE ACADEMY reports a student body of 76% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is ROME FREE ACADEMY public or private?
ROME FREE ACADEMY is a public K-12 school, overseen by ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.