JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL

Located at 303 JEFFERSON AVE, in FAIRPORT, New York, JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL is a moderately sized elementary school that educates 606 students (grades K through 5), part of FAIRPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL sits 37% larger than that benchmark.

FAIRPORT CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 5,093 students; JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL is among them.

Looking at the student body, JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, On paper, JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL has 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.9%; this one delivers 63.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,382, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

The closest other public school is MINERVA DELAND SCHOOL, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JEFFERSON AVENUE SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 67.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 5%: 639 students in 2018 compared to 606 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.