JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY

Located at 200 GENESEE ST, in ROCHESTER, New York, JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY is a tight-knit elementary campus that works with 351 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 51 schools in ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (25,949 students total), JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY logs that Black students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 40.4%; JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY posts 17.5%, -22.9 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 20.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 6 years. Looking back 6 years, enrollment at JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY has fell 37%, going from 560 students in 2018 to 351 in 2024. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.4:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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