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Enrollment
972
High
DISTRICT 1,003 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361263001031
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL
120 ISLAND COTTAGE RD, ROCHESTER, NY 14612 · (585) 966-3000 · Monroe County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL972 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of New York public high schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
91 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
479 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 223 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 264 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 236 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 249 | 26% |
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
68.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
41.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.0% | 41.0% |
| 2023-24 | 73.0% | 49.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (54.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL this school | 972 | 49.3% | 54.2% |
| FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL HYDE PARK | 1,121 | 47.1% | 55.5% |
| UNION-ENDICOTT HIGH SCHOOL ENDICOTT | 1,078 | 49.2% | 71.7% |
| GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,134 | 53.9% | 66.3% |
| ATHENA HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,070 | 43.2% | 59.0% |
| OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 1,090 | 56.2% | 37.2% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.2% | #663 of 1,135 | #19 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.0% | #724 of 1,109 ▼ 75 | #21 of 35 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #621 of 1,135 ▼ 24 | #18 of 34 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 972 | #248 of 1,216 | #19 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #453 of 1,058 | #18 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.8% | #177 of 1,070 | #7 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.3% | #704 of 1,167 | #18 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #366 of 743 | #6 of 22 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
972
-104 (-10%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 1,037
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 972 | 90.9 | 10.7:1 | 49% (479) |
| 2023-24 | 1,023 | 94.5 | 10.8:1 | 57% (579) |
| 2022-23 | 1,052 | 89.4 | 11.8:1 | 56% (592) |
| 2020-21 | 1,076 | 91 | 11.8:1 | 55% (595) |
| 2017-18 | 1,106 | 83.7 | 13.2:1 | 53% (583) |
| 2015-16 | 1,144 | 83 | 13.8:1 | 39% (449) |
| 2010-11 | 1,154 | 92 | 12.5:1 | 35% (407) |
| 2000-01 | 1,411 | 103 | 13.7:1 | 11% (158) |
| 1990-91 | 1,037 | 70 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL.
About ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL is classified as a high school. It is located in ROCHESTER, New York. The school enrolls 972 students in grades 9 through 12. That compares with an average of about 668 students for high schools in New York.
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL reports to GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, which has 17 schools and 9,935 students.
White students are 52% of those enrolled at ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL. The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic, 17% Black, 6% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Monroe County's population at about 70%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
There are 90.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 10.7:1. The 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is close to this figure. A total of 479 students, or 49%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Monroe County is similar, at 50%.
Among New York public high schools, ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL outscored 34%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of New York schools: 54.2% actual against 56.9% predicted.
For Monroe County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $76,382, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 186 public schools in the county, enrolling about 106,108, ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL among them.
About 0.1 miles separate ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL from the closest public school, ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 48.0%; ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL's is 54.2%, ranking 2nd of 7.
Locale data from NCES put ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 972, down from 1,076 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 11.8:1 to 10.7:1.
The ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL discussion page is a place for special education services, counseling, and support programs. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
753,753
Census ACS
Median income
$76,382
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
186
106,108 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,090 students
- ATHENA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,070 students
- ODYSSEY ACADEMYHigh · 878 students
- ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 810 students
- LONGRIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 754 students
- ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 673 students
Other schools in ROCHESTER
- ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 1Combined · 1,405 students
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,164 students
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
Other Arcadia High schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Arcadia High. ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL is the 3rd largest of the 8.
- Arcadia HighArcadia, CA · 2,939 students
- Arcadia High SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 1,679 students
- Arcadia HighOak Hall, VA · 688 students
- Arcadia HighArcadia, WI · 413 students
- Arcadia High SchoolArcadia, LA · 248 students
Nearby schools
- ARCADIA MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 673
- PADDY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 521
- LAKESHORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.0 mi · 387
- RENAISSANCE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL OF THE ARTS1.0 mi · 500
- ENGLISH VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 346
- GREECE COMMUNITY EARLY LEARNING CENTER1.3 mi · 269
Frequently asked questions
About ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOLHow large is ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL?
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 972 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL serve?
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL is approximately 10.7:1 (91 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL are roughly 52% White, 20% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.