WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a moderately sized primary school in SYRACUSE, New York, operated by SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 650 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 47% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 31 schools in SYRACUSE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (18,608 students total), WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the largest single group is Black at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 20% White, 12% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 11% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Onondaga County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.0%; actual is 24.6%, a gap of -21.4 points.

Around the school, census data for Onondaga County shows median household income runs about $76,945, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Onondaga County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 67,044 students), of which WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

GRANT MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 25.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WEBSTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has held roughly steady, going from 656 students in 2018 to 650 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 33% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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