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Enrollment
1,164
High
DISTRICT 852 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360546000272
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL
1150 WINTON RD S, ROCHESTER, NY 14618 · (585) 242-5000 · Monroe County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,164 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of New York public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
11.4:1
102 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
283 students
DISTRICT 23% · 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 | 290 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 271 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 318 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 273 | 23% |
| Ungraded | 12 | 1% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
93.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
87.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.0% | 87.0% |
| 2023-24 | 96.0% | 87.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 91% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in New York's top 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 BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (90.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL this school | 1,164 | 24.3% | 90.5% |
| ITHACA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ITHACA | 1,411 | 26.7% | 74.8% |
| GEORGE W HEWLETT HIGH SCHOOL HEWLETT | 1,051 | 23.8% | 80.0% |
| COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL EAST GREENBUSH | 1,272 | 24.4% | 91.8% |
| JAMESVILLE-DEWITT HIGH SCHOOL DEWITT | 820 | 27.6% | 89.5% |
| WILLIAMSVILLE NORTH HIGH SCHOOL WILLIAMSVILLE | 1,307 | 27.8% | 90.0% |
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 BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.5% | #56 of 1,135 | #3 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.0% | #70 of 1,109 ▲ 60 | #4 of 35 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.0% | #115 of 1,135 ▼ 35 | #5 of 34 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,164 | #184 of 1,216 | #9 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #599 of 1,058 | #27 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #380 of 1,070 | #17 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.3% | #1,056 of 1,167 | #29 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.5% | #272 of 339 | #9 of 11 |
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
1,164
-73 (-6%) vs 2020
+27% since 1990-91, when it was 918
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.4:1
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 | 1,164 | 102.1 | 11.4:1 | 24% (283) |
| 2023-24 | 1,182 | 97.6 | 12.1:1 | 23% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 1,243 | 106.6 | 11.7:1 | 23% (290) |
| 2020-21 | 1,237 | 100 | 12.4:1 | 20% (246) |
| 2017-18 | 1,136 | 100.9 | 11.3:1 | 19% (214) |
| 2015-16 | 1,131 | 102 | 11.1:1 | 15% (165) |
| 2010-11 | 1,177 | 103 | 11.4:1 | 10% (113) |
| 2000-01 | 1,154 | 89 | 13.0:1 | 5% (58) |
| 1990-91 | 918 | 67 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL.
About BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL
Among the schools in ROCHESTER, New York, is BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL, a large high school. A federal count lists 1,164 students at the school, in grades 9 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in New York is about 668, so this school runs 74% bigger than that.
BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has a total of 4 schools and 3,409 students, BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL among them.
White students make up a majority at BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL, at 64%. The remaining shares are 10% Asian, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is 102.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.4:1. For comparison, high schools in New York average 11.0:1. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 24%. The rate at public schools in Monroe County averages 50%, higher than here.
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 95% of New York public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations places BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL in the top 10% of New York schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 24.4 points above it (90.5% actual, 66.0% predicted).
Recent Census Bureau figures for Monroe County show that the median household income is $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in the county.
The shortest distance from BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st in a group of 8 nearby schools.
The federal government classifies BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL's location as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment dropped 6% from its 2020-21 level of 1,237.
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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 BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 759 students
- COUNCIL ROCK PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 743 students
- FRENCH ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 743 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
- IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,134 students
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,090 students
Other Brighton High schools
5 other US public schools in 6 states are named Brighton High. BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Brighton HighSalt Lake City, UT · 2,435 students
- Brighton High SchoolBRIGHTON, MI · 1,887 students
- Brighton High SchoolBRIGHTON, CO · 1,733 students
- Brighton High SchoolBrighton, TN · 1,031 students
- Brighton High SchoolBrighton, MA · 667 students
Nearby schools
- TWELVE CORNERS MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 759
- COUNCIL ROCK PRIMARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 743
- SCHOOL 15-CHILDREN'S SCHOOL OF ROCHESTER (THE)1.4 mi · 384
- SCHOOL 35-PINNACLE1.5 mi · 435
- FRENCH ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 743
- GENESEE COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLOUR CITY CAMPUS1.7 mi · 158
Frequently asked questions
About BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL?
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,164 students in grades 09-12.
Is BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL?
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 64% White, 7% Hispanic, 10% Black, 10% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL?
BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by BRIGHTON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT in Monroe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.