SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in SOLVAY, New York, run under SOLVAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 436 students spanning grades K through 4.

Across the 3 schools in SOLVAY UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,284 students total), SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports that 72% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 9% Black, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Onondaga County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Onondaga County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,945, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Onondaga County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SOLVAY HIGH SCHOOL, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SOLVAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has ticked down 9%, going from 479 students in 2018 to 436 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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