JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL

JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL operates as a mid-tier four-year high school in ROCHESTER, New York, part of ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 809 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 21% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 51 schools in total, collectively educating 25,949 students. JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 44% Black, 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL logs 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.6%; actual is 19.2%, a gap of -23.4 points.

In the broader community, 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%. JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

MONROE LOWER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JAMES MONROE UPPER SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 856 students in 2018 compared to 809 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 59% to 49% across the same window.

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