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FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL
FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in ROCHESTER, New York, one of the schools within GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructs 384 students, covering grades K through 5.
GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,598 students. FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest looks like 14% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 70% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of -8.7 points.
Around the school, Monroe County reports that the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
PAUL ROAD SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. FLORENCE BRASSER SCHOOL's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 385 (now 384). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.
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