CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL

CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL, a reasonably sized junior high in PITTSFORD, New York, one of the schools within PITTSFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 602 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 9 schools in PITTSFORD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (5,516 students total), CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 3% of students at CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.6%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Monroe County put the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

MENDON CENTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), CALKINS ROAD MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 75.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 9%: 665 students in 2018 compared to 602 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 74% to 69%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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