SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

Located at 2200 ONONDAGA CREEK BLVD, in SYRACUSE, New York, SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a heavily attended K-5 school that hosts 685 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. That puts it 55% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL records that Black students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 19% multiracial, 18% Hispanic, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Onondaga County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.8%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of -14.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) records that median household earnings sit near $76,945, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is CITIZENSHIP AND SCIENCE ACADEMY OF SYRACUSE CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 680 (now 685). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 77% to 60%. Class-load math has grew: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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