Enrollment
364
Middle
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475006561
EAST LOWER SCHOOL
1801 E MAIN ST, ROCHESTER, NY 14609 · (585) 288-3130 · Monroe County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL364 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 2% of New York public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
7.7:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
341 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 33 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 157 | 43% |
| Grade 8 | 166 | 46% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 2% |
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
21.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
21.4%
NY avg 57.4% . -1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.0% | 21.4% |
| 2023-24 | 20.0% | 22.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 EAST LOWER SCHOOL
EAST LOWER SCHOOL's state test result (21.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAST LOWER SCHOOL this school | 364 | 93.7% | 21.5% |
| SYRACUSE STEM AT BLODGETT SYRACUSE | 369 | 91.9% | 13.4% |
| NORTH BRONX SCHOOL OF EMPOWERMENT BRONX | 318 | 93.1% | 30.7% |
| LEADERS OF TOMORROW BRONX | 374 | 91.2% | 30.6% |
| JHS 144 MICHELANGELO BRONX | 388 | 89.7% | 45.4% |
| VILLAGE ACADEMY FAR ROCKAWAY | 305 | 93.4% | 48.4% |
Matched among New York middle 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 EAST LOWER SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #751 of 766 | #24 of 29 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.4% | #746 of 768 ▼ 7 | #24 of 29 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.0% | #749 of 768 ▲ 2 | #24 of 28 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 364 | #480 of 796 | #28 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 7.7:1 | #21 of 683 | #2 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #184 of 688 | #11 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.7% | #90 of 773 | #4 of 33 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.0% | #46 of 168 | #3 of 9 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
364
+6 (+2%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
7.7:1
was 8.3:1
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 | 364 | 47.5 | 7.7:1 | 94% (341) |
| 2023-24 | 363 | 46.2 | 7.9:1 | 91% (331) |
| 2022-23 | 304 | 45.6 | 6.7:1 | 86% (261) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 43 | 8.3:1 | 86% (309) |
| 2017-18 | 322 | 42.1 | 7.7:1 | 88% (283) |
| 2015-16 | 414 | 44 | 9.4:1 | 87% (359) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EAST LOWER SCHOOL.
About EAST LOWER SCHOOL
This page covers EAST LOWER SCHOOL, a small middle school in ROCHESTER, New York. A federal count lists 364 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in New York) has about 531 students.
ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 51 schools with 25,949 students in all.
EAST LOWER SCHOOL's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 46%. The school is also 42% Black, 8% White, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 10%. The chance that two students picked at random at EAST LOWER SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 61%.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 7.7:1, with 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Among middle schools in New York, the typical ratio is 10.3:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at EAST LOWER SCHOOL is 94%. That is higher than the 50% average for public schools in Monroe County.
EAST LOWER SCHOOL is graded F by allk12, scoring above 2% of New York public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
EAST LOWER SCHOOL scores 19.0 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 21.5% actual versus 40.5% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Among Monroe County residents, 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. EAST LOWER SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County, which together enroll about 106,108 students.
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL is located less than a tenth of a mile from EAST LOWER SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 28.9%, higher than EAST LOWER SCHOOL's 21.5%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (358) to 2024-25 (364).
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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 ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- EDISON CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- PADILLA HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,342 students
- SCHOOL OF THE ARTSHigh · 1,065 students
- FRANKLIN UPPER SCHOOLHigh · 1,006 students
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBONElementary · 980 students
- SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOLCombined · 896 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
- EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL0.1 mi · 814
- VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 348
- SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON0.5 mi · 567
- ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL0.6 mi · 395
- SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW0.8 mi · 332
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBON0.8 mi · 980
Frequently asked questions
About EAST LOWER SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at EAST LOWER SCHOOL?
EAST LOWER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 364 students in grades 06-08.
Is EAST LOWER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EAST LOWER SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at EAST LOWER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at EAST LOWER SCHOOL is approximately 7.7:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at EAST LOWER SCHOOL?
At EAST LOWER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 8% White, 46% Hispanic, 42% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is EAST LOWER SCHOOL in?
EAST LOWER SCHOOL is part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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