STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a tight-knit primary school in ROME, New York, STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL educates 368 students from grades K through 6, operated by ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,196 students; STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 39% of students at STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Oneida County's rate of about 47%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.5%; actual is 31.6%, a gap of -28.9 points.

In the broader community, Oneida County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,154, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Oneida County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is JOHN E JOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 3.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 34.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. STOKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has edged up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 322 (now 368). The White share of enrollment shrank from 96% to 88% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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