ROME FREE ACADEMY

ROME FREE ACADEMY is a sprawling secondary school in ROME, New York, operated by ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 1,512 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 126% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Across the 9 schools in ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,196 students total), ROME FREE ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, ROME FREE ACADEMY records that 76% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 10% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, ROME FREE ACADEMY lists 114 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROME FREE ACADEMY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.6%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Oneida County) reports that median household income runs about $70,154, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), ROME FREE ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROME FREE ACADEMY comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

ROME FREE ACADEMY operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. ROME FREE ACADEMY's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 1,477 (now 1,512). White enrollment moved from 83% to 76% across the same window.

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