Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361263001028
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
550 BUCKMAN RD, ROCHESTER, NY 14615 · (585) 966-5900 · Monroe County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of New York public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
249 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 120 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 127 | 34% |
| Grade 5 | 130 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
67%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
37.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
47.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +17.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.0% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 30.0% |
% 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
32.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (32.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 378 | 65.9% | 32.6% |
| RENSSELAER PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TROY | 419 | 65.9% | 32.5% |
| IVAN L GREEN PRIMARY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 333 | 64.9% | N/A |
| DURAND-EASTMAN INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 318 | 67.9% | 30.3% |
| NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 400 | 60.3% | 37.0% |
| HUGH R JONES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UTICA | 371 | 60.4% | 39.8% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #1,935 of 2,335 | #63 of 97 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,566 of 2,342 ▲ 430 | #48 of 97 ▲ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,926 of 2,343 ▲ 212 | #62 of 97 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #1,497 of 2,585 | #67 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #744 of 2,338 | #32 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.5% | #340 of 2,388 | #24 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.9% | #1,054 of 2,534 | #38 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.7% | #403 of 606 | #19 of 31 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
378
+9 (+2%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 445
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 378 | 35 | 10.8:1 | 66% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 375 | 31 | 12.1:1 | 56% (210) |
| 2022-23 | 379 | 32.1 | 11.8:1 | 58% (218) |
| 2020-21 | 369 | 28 | 13.2:1 | 73% (271) |
| 2017-18 | 361 | 30.7 | 11.8:1 | 60% (216) |
| 2015-16 | 333 | 28 | 11.9:1 | 46% (153) |
| 2010-11 | 362 | 35 | 10.3:1 | 43% (155) |
| 2000-01 | 436 | 33 | 13.2:1 | 21% (93) |
| 1990-91 | 445 | 26 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school based in ROCHESTER, New York. It educates 378 students in grades 3 through 5.
GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT has 9,935 students spread across 17 schools.
White students are the largest group at BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, with 49% of enrollment. Next come 22% Hispanic, 15% Black, 9% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The county population is about 70% White. BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has a diversity index of 67%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school employs the equivalent of 35 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.8:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 66%. On average, public schools in Monroe County report 50%.
allk12 grades BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL scores 32.6% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 50.8%.
Monroe County has about 753,753 residents, and median household income is about $76,382, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 186 public schools in Monroe County, with a combined enrollment of about 106,108.
The next-closest public school is OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 5th of 7.
NCES describes the area around BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL was 369 in 2020-21 and 378 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 13.2:1 to 10.8:1.
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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 GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,090 students
- ATHENA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,070 students
- ARCADIA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 972 students
- ODYSSEY ACADEMYHigh · 878 students
- ATHENA MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 810 students
- LONGRIDGE SCHOOLElementary · 754 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
Nearby schools
- OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,090
- ODYSSEY ACADEMY0.7 mi · 878
- DISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOL1.0 mi · 300
- YOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP CS1.0 mi · 356
- LONGRIDGE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 754
- BROOKSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUS1.2 mi · 400
Frequently asked questions
About BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 378 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 49% White, 22% Hispanic, 15% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
BUCKMAN HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of GREECE CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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