DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized intermediate schools in ROCHESTER, New York, run under WEST IRONDEQUOIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 551 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 9.

DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 10 schools operated by WEST IRONDEQUOIT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that educates 3,579 students overall.

Looking at the student body, DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school records 14% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. Compared to Monroe County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, On paper, DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of +4.4 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household income runs about $76,382, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

IRONDEQUOIT HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 68.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DAKE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 545 students in 2018 to 551 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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