Enrollment
346
Elementary
DISTRICT 549 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362859003881
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
401 LOOMIS AVE, SYRACUSE, NY 13207 · (315) 435-4660 · Onondaga County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL346 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of New York public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.6:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
78%
271 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 64 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (52) is 24% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
24.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
21.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.0% | 21.0% |
| 2023-24 | 11.0% | 17.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
46.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-29.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (16.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 346 | 78.3% | 16.8% |
| SCHOOL 19-DR CHARLES T LUNSFORD ROCHESTER | 353 | 80.7% | 28.2% |
| CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL JAMAICA | 297 | 80.1% | 39.8% |
| PS 15 JACKIE ROBINSON SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 294 | 79.3% | 42.4% |
| PS 195 WILLIAM HABERLE ROSEDALE | 321 | 74.5% | 39.6% |
| PS 241 EMMA L JOHNSTON BROOKLYN | 369 | 72.4% | 66.0% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Onondaga County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.8% | #2,282 of 2,335 | #54 of 61 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #2,247 of 2,342 ▲ 15 | #51 of 61 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.0% | #2,240 of 2,343 ▲ 68 | #50 of 61 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 346 | #1,698 of 2,585 | #46 of 70 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #1,360 of 2,338 | #27 of 68 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.2% | #1,594 of 2,388 | #43 of 69 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.3% | #818 of 2,534 | #12 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.2% | #539 of 1,757 | #6 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
346
-82 (-19%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 475
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 14.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 346 | 28.3 | 12.2:1 | 78% (271) |
| 2023-24 | 334 | 30.6 | 10.9:1 | 88% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 28.2 | 12.7:1 | 88% (315) |
| 2020-21 | 428 | 30 | 14.3:1 | 86% (369) |
| 2017-18 | 445 | 29.6 | 15.0:1 | 89% (398) |
| 2015-16 | 416 | 27 | 15.4:1 | 75% (313) |
| 2010-11 | 357 | 31 | 11.5:1 | 87% (309) |
| 2000-01 | 503 | 35 | 14.4:1 | 76% (383) |
| 1990-91 | 475 | 30 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a small elementary school in SYRACUSE, New York. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 346 students in pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in New York is about 443 students, so this school is 22% smaller than average.
The district, SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, operates 31 schools serving 18,608 students.
By race and ethnicity, VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 76% Black. The rest of enrollment is 9% multiracial, 6% White, 6% Hispanic, and 2% Native American. Census estimates put the Black share of Onondaga County's population at about 11%. VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 40%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 28.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.2:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is about 12.8:1. Roughly 78% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Onondaga County is 49%.
The allk12 Grade for VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is F. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 1% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 29.4 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in New York.
Onondaga County has these Census figures: median household income is about $76,945, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 39% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The public schools of Onondaga County number 123 and enroll about 67,044.
The shortest distance from VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.4 miles, to SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Mid-size, or inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL had 428 students in 2020-21 and 346 in 2024-25, a 19% decrease. The ratio of students to teachers went from 14.3:1 to 12.2:1 over the same years.
The VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Onondaga County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
471,129
Census ACS
Median income
$76,945
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
67,044 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- HUNTINGTON K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 934 students
- HURLBUT W SMITH K-8 SCHOOLElementary · 776 students
Other schools in SYRACUSE
- HENNINGER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,483 students
- NOTTINGHAM HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,350 students
- CORCORAN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,338 students
- PUBLIC SERVICE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY AT FOWLERHigh · 1,126 students
- ONONDAGA-CORTLAND-MADISON BOCESCombined · 1,113 students
- SYRACUSE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOLCombined · 993 students
Other Van Duyn Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Van Duyn Elementary. VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 2.
- Van Duyn Elementary SchoolClinton, IN · 242 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTHSIDE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 685
- CITIZENSHIP AND SCIENCE ACADEMY OF SYRACUSE CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 764
- EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING MIDDLE SCHOOL0.7 mi · 172
- CLARY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 270
- MCKINLEY-BRIGHTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 408
- BRIGHTON ACADEMY0.9 mi · 363
Frequently asked questions
About VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 346 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL have?
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL employs 28 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
How diverse is VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 6% White, 6% Hispanic, 76% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
VAN DUYN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is overseen by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Onondaga County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.