ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a reasonably sized K-5 school in SYRACUSE, New York, one of the schools within NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 400 students, covering grades K through 4.

NORTH SYRACUSE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,630 students. ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% Black, 7% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 51.5%; this one comes in at 27.3%, -24.2 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is ROXBORO ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROXBORO ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 21%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 1% to 9% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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