LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in ROCHESTER, New York, LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small junior high, one of the schools within ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 416 students across grades 7 through 8. That puts it 22% below the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

ROCHESTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 51 schools with combined enrollment of 25,949 students; LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On the student-mix side, LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 70%. The remainder is composed of 15% Hispanic, 7% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.

On the resource side, LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL records 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.6:1. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Monroe County's rate of about 50%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Monroe County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,382 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Monroe County runs 186 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students), of which LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

JOSEPH C WILSON FOUNDATION ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL.

LORETTA JOHNSON MIDDLE SCHOOL operates from a city-core location.

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