Syracuse Sun

The majority of students in Onondaga County schools during the 2021-22 school year were white, according to the New York State Education Department.

Of the 63,106 students attending Onondaga County schools, 61.7% were white. Black students were the second largest ethnicity, making up 17.5% of Onondaga County students.

In the previous school year, white was also the most common student ethnicity in Onondaga County, representing 62.6% of the student body.

Grant Middle School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, with 34.5% Black students, 22.7% white students, 21% Asian or Pacific Islander students, 11.3% Hispanic students, 9.2% multiracial students, and 1.3% American Indian or Alaska Native students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county dropped to 0.5% when compared to the previous year.

In 2022, New York had roughly one teacher for every 12 students, which is lower than the national average of one teacher for every 16 students. A lower student-to-teacher ratio has been found to help improve students' school performance.

A 2021 report from the NYC Center for Innovation Through Data Intelligence revealed racial and gender groups were seeing better outcomes compared to 2013, though significant disparities remained between different groups, particularly between Black and Hispanic students.

School name	Most prevalent ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
Allen Road Elementary School	White	75.4%	334
Bellevue Elementary School	Black	51.2%	389
Brewerton Elementary School	White	92.5%	375
Brighton Academy	Black	76.3%	342
C. Grant Grimshaw School	White	74%	327
C. S. Driver Middle School	White	92.7%	521
Camillus Middle School	White	84%	668
Catherine M. Mcnamara Elementary School	White	87.7%	528
Charles W. Baker High School	White	86.5%	1,281
Cherry Road Elementary School	White	82.2%	365
Chestnut Hill Elementary School	White	62.5%	411
Chestnut Hill Middle School	White	63.9%	399
Cicero Elementary School	White	82.1%	541
Cicero-North Syracuse High School	White	78%	1,764
Clary Middle School	Black	62.5%	275
Corcoran High School	Black	55.6%	1,265
Delaware Primary School	Hispanic	39.5%	451
Donald S. Ray School	White	85.6%	846
Donlin Drive Elementary School	White	66%	397
Dr. Weeks Elementary School	Black	50.2%	715
Eagle Hill Middle School	White	76%	626
East Hill Elementary School	White	81.4%	345
East Syracuse Elementary School	White	66.7%	363
East Syracuse Minoa Central High School	White	77.6%	1,184
Edward Smith K-8 School	Black	42.4%	713
Elbridge Elementary School	White	97.5%	445
Elmcrest Elementary School	White	71.8%	408
Enders Road Elementary School	White	79.1%	536
Expeditionary Learning Middle School	Black	33.5%	170
Fabius-Pompey Elementary School	White	94.4%	286
Fabius-Pompey Middle School High School	White	93.6%	345
Fayetteville Elementary School	White	84.7%	465
Fayetteville-Manlius Senior High School	White	76.9%	1,416
Franklin Elementary School	Black	39.2%	666
Frazer K-8 School	Black	38.4%	770
Fremont Elementary School	White	90.8%	325
Gillette Road Middle School	White	79.3%	1,053
Grant Middle School	Black	34.5%	609
Harry E. Elden Elementary School	White	82.3%	479
Henninger High School	Black	44.2%	1,503
Huntington K-8 School	Black	34.9%	889
Hurlbut W. Smith K-8 School	Black	63.4%	779
Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central	Black	46.6%	581
Jamesville Elementary School	White	75.2%	315
Jamesville-Dewitt High School	White	72.6%	870
Jamesville-Dewitt Middle School	White	73.3%	737
Jordan-Elbridge High School	White	95.1%	344
Jordan-Elbridge Middle School	White	95.4%	410
K. C. Heffernan Elementary School	White	94%	420
Karl W. Saile Bear Road Elementary School	White	78.5%	521
L. Pearl Palmer Elementary School	White	91.3%	470
La Fayette Junior-Senior High School	White	66%	326
Lakeshore Road Elementary School	White	87%	455
Lemoyne Elementary School	Black	35.6%	351
Lincoln Middle School	Black	47%	508
Liverpool Elementary School	White	59.2%	360
Liverpool High School	White	67.7%	2,123
Liverpool Middle School	White	67.1%	313
Long Branch Elementary School	White	60.3%	355
Lyncourt School	White	45.8%	406
Mae E. Reynolds School	White	87.7%	503
Main Street Elementary School	White	77.3%	216
Marcellus High School	White	93.8%	466
Mckinley-Brighton Elementary School	Black	65.2%	451
Meachem Elementary School	Black	60.7%	333
Morgan Road Elementary School	White	67.4%	433
Moses Dewitt Elementary School	White	70.6%	228
Mott Road Elementary School	White	79.9%	427
Nate Perry Elementary School	White	56.3%	442
North Syracuse Junior High School	White	77.3%	1,278
Nottingham High School	Black	50.4%	1,229
Onondaga Hill Middle School	White	77.5%	555
Onondaga Nation School	American Indian or Alaska Native	98.5%	133
Onondaga Road Elementary School	White	80.7%	327
Onondaga Senior High School	White	70.9%	327
Park Hill School	White	82.6%	242
Pine Grove Middle School	White	81.7%	672
Porter Elementary School	Black	36.1%	299
Public Service Leadership Academy at Fowler	Black	51.3%	1,075
Roberts K-8 School	Black	55.3%	615
Rockwell Elementary School	White	71.3%	216
Roxboro Road Elementary School	White	64.5%	442
Roxboro Road Middle School	White	69.2%	715
Salem Hyde Elementary School	Black	35.5%	482
Seymour Dual Language Academy	Hispanic	60.5%	474
Skaneateles Middle School	White	94.8%	289
Skaneateles Senior High School	White	94.2%	428
Smith Road Elementary School	White	74.3%	564
Solvay Elementary School	White	70.4%	446
Solvay High School	White	70.1%	458
Solvay Middle School	White	68.5%	438
Soule Road Elementary School	White	75.3%	316
Soule Road Middle School	White	75.6%	373
Split Rock Elementary School	White	82.7%	307
State Street Intermediate School	White	89.9%	248
Steam at Dr. King Elementary School	Black	77.9%	447
Stonehedge Elementary School	White	83.1%	724
Syracuse Latin School	White	40.2%	642
Syracuse Stem at Blodgett	Hispanic	42.9%	368
Tecumseh Elementary School	White	64.4%	362
Theodore R. Durgee Junior High School	White	87.4%	834
Tully Elementary School	White	90.5%	409
Tully Junior-Senior High School	White	95.5%	334
Van Buren Elementary School	White	88.5%	503
Van Duyn Elementary School	Black	73.9%	357
Walberta Park Primary School	White	72.8%	250
Waterman Elementary School	White	93.1%	288
Webster Elementary School	Black	36.8%	609
Wellwood Middle School	White	79.9%	652
West Genesee Middle School	White	79.7%	686
West Genesee Senior High School	White	83%	1,356
Westhill High School	White	84.7%	549
Wheeler Elementary School	White	73.4%	233
Willow Field Elementary School	White	73.7%	331
Woodland Elementary School	White	79.7%	291