Total enrollment
21,588
-5,904 (-21%) vs SY 2017-18
51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
New York · 25,949 students · 1 city
ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT reports 51 public K-12 schools to NCES, with combined enrollment of roughly 25,949 New York students (30 elementary, 9 middle, and 11 high).
7-year change in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25School count
40
-10 (-20%) vs SY 2017-18
% White
8%
was 10%
% Hispanic
36%
was 29%
% Black
47%
was 57%
% Asian
3%
was 4%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, enrollment-weighted demographic averages
About ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is a medium-population New York school district running 51 campuses with combined enrollment near 25,949.
For a sense of the school types, ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is built around 30 elementary, 9 middle, 11 high schools, and 1 combined or other.
Trend over the past 7 years. Across the same 7-year window, public-school enrollment decreased 21%: 27,492 students in SY 2017-18 versus 21,588 in SY 2024-25. Over that span, ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT lost 10 schools, going from 50 to 40. On the demographic side, Black enrollment moved from 57% to 47% over the same window.
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