JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL

JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack high school in ROCHESTER, New York, operated by ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 868 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

Within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 51 schools and 25,949 students, JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 24% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 14% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 88 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 88% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.5%; this one comes in at 23.7%, -18.9 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

Nearest neighbor: JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 19.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Five-year trend. JOSEPH C WILSON MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 754 (now 868). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 73% to 59%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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