Schools · Syracuse

Syracuse, KS schools

Syracuse’s public schools score well below Kansas’s averages: 23% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 95% of high schoolers graduate on time against 88%. Kids attend Syracuse Elem through grade 6, then Syracuse High.

Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.

TownTapestry School GradeNew

Syracuse’s School Grade: D

The public schools Syracuse’s kids attend trail 86% of Kansas’s districts on state tests. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

C-Test scores
Kansas school districts we grade (283)Better than 14%
Lower resultsHigher results
Kansas towns with similar household incomes (867)Better than 11%
Good confidence. Built on 273 tested students; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Kansas’s state tests, each against the state average. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Kansas only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Kansas with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
School path

Where Syracuse kids go to school

Grades PK–6
C+Syracuse Elem 262 students · Syracuse Syracuse Unified School District 494
Grades 7–12
D-Syracuse High 230 students · Syracuse Syracuse Unified School District 494

Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.

Test scores · 2020–21

Well below the state in reading

Reading (grades PK–12, Syracuse Unified School District 494)23%
State average 35.5%
Math (grades PK–12, Syracuse Unified School District 494)21%
State average 27.9%
Graduation · class of 2020

95% graduate on time

Graduation rate
95%
KS: 88%
Graduating class
32
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.

Districts

The district serving Syracuse

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Syracuse

There’s no college within 30 miles of Syracuse. The closest is Lamar Community College in Lamar, CO, 45.3 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Syracuse. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus.

Every school

All 2 schools in Syracuse

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School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.

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