The top reported proficiency rate is 94% in Science. The lowest is 79% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Moses Dewitt Elementary School
Moses DeWitt Elementary serves prekindergarten through fourth grade on Jamesville Road in DeWitt, a suburban town just east of Syracuse in Onondaga County. It is a regular public school within the Jamesville-DeWitt Central School District, and the grades it serves are too early for a graduation rate to apply.
The school's academic picture is strong. New York State testing covers grades three and four in English language arts and math, and Moses DeWitt's results place it in the top quartile among districts in Onondaga County on the overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades. In third-grade ELA, the share of students scoring proficient or above is quite high, and third-grade math results are similarly strong. Fourth-grade proficiency rates are somewhat lower than third grade in both subjects but still well above what one would expect at the midpoint of county peers. A fourth-grade science result from an earlier testing cycle was exceptionally high, though more recent science data was not available. Participation in testing is high across the board, which means the results reflect nearly the full student body rather than a selected slice. Multi-year trend data was not available in the data provided, so it is not possible to characterize whether these results have been rising, falling, or stable over time.
The school enrolls a few hundred students across its grade band, which is a modest but not unusually small size for an elementary school in a community like this one. About a third of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which suggests a mix of economic circumstances. The student body is majority white, with Asian, multiracial, Black, and Hispanic students each represented in smaller but meaningful portions. Data on English learners and students with IEPs was not available in the provided data, so a parent with specific questions about those supports should ask the school directly.
Discipline data, attendance figures, and chronic absenteeism rates were also not available in the payload, which are areas a parent may want to look into further with the school.
The parent district, Jamesville-DeWitt CSD, recently had voters approve a capital project that will touch all five district buildings, including work at the elementary level: playgrounds designed to meet state pre-K guidelines, HVAC and infrastructure replacements, and security upgrades. Publicly reported accounts indicate this was structured with no additional tax increase. The district also adopted a new strategic plan for 2025 through 2027, organized around academic excellence, student experience, and school safety, with a curriculum audit and integration of culturally responsive instruction among the stated goals. Those are district-wide commitments, but they would shape what elementary students encounter.
DeWitt itself is a car-oriented eastern Syracuse suburb with a commercial spine along Erie Boulevard and a residential fabric that ranges from older neighborhoods to newer subdivisions. It holds a large share of Onondaga County's industrial and commercial land, while southern portions near Jamesville carry a more rural character. Publicly reported sources note that the former ShoppingTown Mall site is planned to become a large mixed-use development called District East, with hundreds of residential units and substantial retail, and that the nearby Micron semiconductor facility in Clay is expected to draw continued housing demand to the area. Home values in the zip code sit well below the statewide benchmark and modestly below the national benchmark, though appreciation has been running ahead of national trends. The Onondaga County market shows high demand scores and homes moving relatively quickly, with inventory still lean.
For a family looking at a PreK-4 pathway, Moses DeWitt offers genuinely strong early elementary academics relative to its county peers, a physically improving building environment through the recent capital project, and a community that is suburban and accessible but in the middle of visible growth pressures that will shape the neighborhood over the coming years.
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