EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL

EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL is a mid-sized senior high in ROCHESTER, New York, overseen by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 814 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 22% bigger than typical.

Across the 51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (25,949 students total), EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL logs that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 40% Hispanic, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Across the wider county, Monroe County reports that median household income runs about $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL is one.

EAST LOWER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 14%: 714 students in 2018 compared to 814 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 35% to 40%. Class-load math has widened: from 7.0:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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