DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY

DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY operates as a small elementary-level community in ROCHESTER, New York, part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 311 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 30% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY is one of 51 schools operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 25,949 students overall.

Demographically, DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY logs that the largest single group is Black, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.4%; DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY posts 12.1%, -31.3 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Monroe County put median household income runs about $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

Nearest neighbor: SCHOOL 53 MONTESSORI ACADEMY, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), DR WALTER COOPER ACADEMY ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 354 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2024. The White share of enrollment edged down from 7% to 2% over that span.

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