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What's the one class at EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
814
High
DISTRICT 798 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362475003363
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL
1801 E MAIN ST, ROCHESTER, NY 14609 · (585) 288-3130 · Monroe County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL814 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of New York public high schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
96 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
85%
691 students
DISTRICT 84% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 179 | 22% |
| Grade 10 | 199 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 190 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 217 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 29 | 4% |
Student demographics
58%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
56.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -2.0pp since 2023
Math
19.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -10.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.0% | 19.0% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
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 UPPER HIGH SCHOOL
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL this school | 814 | 84.9% | 34.8% |
| BRONX PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL BRONX | 860 | 90.1% | 57.5% |
| JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 809 | 88.1% | 19.2% |
| FREDERICK DOUGLASS ACADEMY NEW YORK | 619 | 89.3% | 30.1% |
| POUGHKEEPSIE HIGH SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 1,151 | 80.5% | 35.2% |
| DEMOCRACY PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 583 | 83.5% | 53.4% |
Matched among New York high 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 UPPER HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #1,014 of 1,135 | #26 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #1,023 of 1,109 ▼ 124 | #27 of 35 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.0% | #857 of 1,135 ▲ 8 | #22 of 34 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 814 | #314 of 1,216 | #25 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #91 of 1,058 | #2 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.9% | #296 of 1,070 | #14 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.9% | #353 of 1,167 | #8 of 35 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.0% | #103 of 339 | #5 of 11 |
Ranked against other public high 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
814
+103 (+14%) vs 2020
-60% since 1990-91, when it was 2,019
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 7.6:1
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 | 814 | 95.9 | 8.5:1 | 85% (691) |
| 2023-24 | 780 | 95.1 | 8.2:1 | 85% (662) |
| 2022-23 | 753 | 98.7 | 7.6:1 | 85% (643) |
| 2020-21 | 711 | 94 | 7.6:1 | 82% (582) |
| 2017-18 | 714 | 102.6 | 7.0:1 | 86% (616) |
| 2015-16 | 979 | 93 | 10.5:1 | 86% (846) |
| 2010-11 | 1,714 | 138 | 12.4:1 | 83% (1,426) |
| 2000-01 | 1,939 | 140 | 13.8:1 | 41% (789) |
| 1990-91 | 2,019 | 133 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL.
About EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL is a medium-sized high school in New York, with an address in ROCHESTER. Grades offered run from 9 through 12, with 814 students enrolled. The average among high schools in New York is roughly 668 students; this school is 22% bigger than that.
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL is among 51 schools run by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which serves 25,949 students.
At EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL, Black students make up 51% of the student body. It is also 40% Hispanic and 7% White. For comparison, the population of Monroe County is roughly 14% Black. EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL's diversity index is 58%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 95.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.5:1. That is lower than the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 85%. Among public schools in Monroe County, the average eligibility rate is 50%.
allk12 grades EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL a D. The grade compares the school only with New York public high schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 43.8%. EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL scores 34.8%.
Federal survey data for Monroe County show that the median household income is $76,382, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Monroe County is home to 186 public schools and about 106,108 public school students.
EAST LOWER SCHOOL is the closest public school, less than a tenth of a mile away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL comes in 4th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Mid-size.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 103 more students in 2024-25.
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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 LOWER SCHOOL0.1 mi · 364
- VERTUS CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 348
- SCHOOL 28-HENRY HUDSON0.5 mi · 567
- ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 395
- SCHOOL 33-JOHN JAMES AUDUBON0.8 mi · 980
- SCHOOL 52-FRANK FOWLER DOW0.8 mi · 332
Frequently asked questions
About EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOLHow many students attend EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL?
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 814 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL serve?
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.5:1 students per teacher at EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL.
How diverse is EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL?
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL reports a student body of 7% White, 40% Hispanic, 51% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL?
EAST UPPER HIGH SCHOOL is overseen by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT in Monroe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.