Syracuse

Syracuse has two schools serving different grade spans: Syracuse Elementary serves pre-K through sixth grade and enrolls 262 students, while Syracuse High serves grades 7–12 and enrolls 230. The clearest shared concern is mathematics, especially at the high school: elementary students were 33% proficient compared with 41% statewide, and high school students were 20% compared with 41%; eighth-grade math at the high school was just 8%, 32 points below the state’s 40%.

The schools show different strengths by subject. Syracuse Elementary stands out in science, with 55% proficiency across grades—16 points above the state—and fifth-grade science was 55%, 9 points above its state comparison. Syracuse High stands out in ELA: its all-grades result was 48%, 2 points above the state, and tenth-grade ELA reached 59%, 18 points above the state. On the lower side, elementary ELA was 34%, 12 points below the state, while high school science was 28%, 10 points below. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not a like-for-like comparison.

Recent results are mixed, rather than improving uniformly. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, Syracuse Elementary improved by 9 points in math and 6 in science, but fell 6 points in ELA; Syracuse High gained 10 points in ELA while math slipped 1 point and science fell 4. SchoolDigger’s ranking rose for the high school, from the 24th to the 48th percentile, while the elementary school moved from the 30th to the 25th. Other context includes similar student–teacher ratios (12.4 and 12.5) and lower chronic absenteeism than the state at both schools: 11% at the elementary school and 5% at the high school, versus 18% statewide. The elementary school’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 76%, compared with 65% at the high school; these figures describe school contexts, not explanations for results.