Best areas in Syracuse area

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Originally Posted by momix5

Is Marcellus a rural area thanks

RollsRoyce has provided a wealth of information about Marcellus and it's perhaps best described as a middle class village and small town surrounded by rural areas but the culture of the community is not rural as in "farm country".

The schools - K through 12 all on one campus in three buildings - are very good. Although not as academically stringent as Fayetteville-Manlius they are still very good and it's my impression that they're less competitive and there's less of a sense of divide between wealthy kids and those who are not wealthy. If you live in Marcellus you typically don't flaunt your wealth because it's considered to be in bad taste.


There are some farm kids in the school population and a larger percentage who are from middle class families with parents who work in Syracuse and commute. My daughter grew up in Marcellus, as did her mother and grandmother before her. I think it's a fine place for kids to grow up.

Its real shortcoming - depending on your perspective - is a lack of cultural diversity. The population of the village and the schools is very homogeneous. My daughter was exposed to a wide variety of people from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds by virtue of my friendships and the traveling she did with me but apart from a few adopted children who were Asian and a single African-Amercian family who lived in the village - it was a lily white community. The small number of minority kids she went to school with were treated with equal respect by teachers and peers and had no issues fitting in as far as I know but if you want a first hand observation there it is.

Some would call that homogeneous characteristic an asset but for those who see it as a limitation it's easily surmounted by what you expose your kids to outside of their school and neighborhood.