ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL

Located at 5705 RT 96, in ROMULUS, New York, ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL is a modestly sized K-12 campus that instructs 427 students (grades pre-K through 12), operated by ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 544 students each, so ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL sits 22% smaller than that benchmark.

ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL is a school of ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL logs that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 8.7:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Seneca County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.4%, the actual is 42.6%, a residual of -17.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Seneca County indicate the typical household earns roughly $68,089 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL is one of 11 public schools in Seneca County (combined enrollment of about 3,612 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH SENECA MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL, around 5.3 miles off. On composite proficiency, ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. ROMULUS CENTRAL SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 433 (now 427).

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.