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STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
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STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in SYRACUSE, New York, operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 439 students in grades pre-K through 5.
SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 18,608 students. STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Onondaga County as a whole is about 11% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.7%; this one comes in at 14.7%, -31.0 points off the demographic line.
In the surrounding community, Onondaga County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.
The closest other public school is INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT SYRACUSE CENTRAL, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.
STEAM AT DR KING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.
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