NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL

NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized primary school in ROCHESTER, New York, overseen by GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 400 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 6 schools in GATES CHILI CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (3,598 students total), NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% Hispanic, 18% Black, 12% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -15.9 points.

Around the school, Monroe County reports that median household income runs about $76,382, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL is one of 186 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 106,108 students).

GATES CHILI HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at NEIL ARMSTRONG SCHOOL has contracted 20%, going from 497 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 42% across the same window.

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