SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL

SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL is a mid-tier K-5 school in SYRACUSE, New York, one of the schools within SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 640 students in grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 44% above typical.

SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL is one of 31 schools operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 18,608 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 35% Black, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Onondaga County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.6%, the actual is 56.1%, a residual of -3.5 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Onondaga County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,945 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL is one of 123 public schools in Onondaga County (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students).

MCKINLEY-BRIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 22.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SYRACUSE LATIN SCHOOL has grew 118%, going from 293 students in 2018 to 640 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 45% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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