SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY

Located at 108 SHONNARD ST, in SYRACUSE, New York, SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that serves 448 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 31 schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (18,608 students total), SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 6% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 6%.

On the resource side, The school employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 44.5%; actual is 5.7%, a gap of -38.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Onondaga County put median household earnings sit near $76,945, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY is one.

Nearest neighbor: SYRACUSE STEM AT BLODGETT, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. SEYMOUR DUAL LANGUAGE ACADEMY's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 585 (now 448). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 51% to 64%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 8.8:1 in 2025.

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