# ROME FREE ACADEMY

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/llm*

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `362490003449`
- **School name**: ROME FREE ACADEMY
- **Location**: ROME, NY 13441
- **Address**: 95 DART CIRCLE
- **District**: ROME CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3624900`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 43.21120, -75.41580
- **Phone**: (315)334-7203
- **Wikidata QID**: Q14707238 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Free_Academy

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,512
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 114
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 13.3:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 52.7%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Grad Rate: 1
  - HS Core Performance: 3
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Attendance: 2
  - EM Growth: s
  - EM Core Performance: s
  - EM Weight Performance: s
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: s
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 81.0% (cohort of 392)
- **2021**: 83.0% (cohort of 368)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 133

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 33.2% (515 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 2.6% (39 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 2.4% (36 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 29.3% (439 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 9
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.1%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 7.6%
- **Black/African American**: 1.5%
- **Asian**: 10.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 78.9%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.2%
- **Two or more races**: 1.5%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 52.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 18.7% — 280 students
- **English Learners**: 1.3% — 19 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 137 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 60 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 17 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 16 students
- **Autism**: 14 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 6 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 6 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 5 students
- **Traumatic Brain Injury**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $20,429
- **Federal share**: $892
- **State + local share**: $19,537
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,498
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $27,689,972
- **Federal share**: 13.7%
- **State share**: 60.5%
- **Local share**: 25.9%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $14,411,809

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $41,789
- **Poverty rate**: 21.1%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.6%
- **Unemployment**: 9.4%
- **Median gross rent**: $785
- **Foreign-born residents**: 1.2%
- **Single-parent households**: 44.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 1.5 miles (GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE 11 AREAS)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 2
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 18
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.47 miles (FORMER TUXEDO MOBILE HOMES)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: ROME CITY
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2016-07-01

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **BELLAMY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 0.4 mi away, 1.6% (this school: 2.61%)
- **CLOUGH PREK CENTER** — 1.0 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.61%)
- **NEW YORK STATE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF** — 2.3 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.61%)
- **RIDGE MILLS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 2.4 mi away, 0% (this school: 2.61%)
- **LYNDON H STROUGH MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.7 mi away, 0.85% (this school: 2.61%)

### graduation rate
- **WHITESBORO HIGH SCHOOL** — 7.6 mi away, 94% (this school: 81%)
- **HOLLAND PATENT CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL** — 8.7 mi away, 92% (this school: 81%)
- **NEW YORK MILLS SCHOOL** — 10.3 mi away, 84.5% (this school: 81%)
- **CLINTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.2 mi away, 100% (this school: 81%)
- **NEW HARTFORD SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.8 mi away, 98% (this school: 81%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/rome-free-academy-rome/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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