INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in ROCHESTER, New York, run under PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, serveing 545 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 23% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

PENFIELD CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 4,651 students. INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that nearly all students (81%) are White; the rest comes out to 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

In terms of school funding signals, INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Monroe County (around 50%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 64.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,382, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

AUSTIN STEWARD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 46 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 33.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at INDIAN LANDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has increased 6%, going from 513 students in 2018 to 545 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.